
And I can be fussy when it comes to notation images: I really like the notes to be clear, crisp at the edges when enlarged and preferably with a transparent background (which means they can be easily placed on top of a stave without blocking out half of the staves lines).
When creating resources for workshops and online courses I find myself constantly in need of images, images….and more images.įirst, there’s a need for images of music instruments, or composers, or snippets of scores, and there’s often a need for notation images. If you have already downloaded the library in the past and would like these new elements, please simply download the complete library again using the download button at the bottom of this post.– Katie Images, Images, Images! I’ve included a list of the new elements below.
All in all, 95 new elements (maybe more – I lost count…) have been added to this new version. It even places the notes on a staff (see image below for an example of what you can do).Before we go anywhere, I wanted to share an exciting update! This music notation library has been around for a while now and I decided it was time for a refresh.
Matthew Hindson’s fonts – we couldn’t get the FiguredBassMH font to work, but StaffClefPitchesEasy works a treat. Musical Note FontsĪs an alternative to using the techniques above, you also have the option of downloading and installing musical note fonts like the following: If you’re looking for music notation software to work with Word, you might try Sibelius, Noteworthy or Finale, all of which offer free trials. This isn’t ideal, as you have to use another program that you most likely are not familiar with to create the music score, and you can’t change the score within Word. png) and then insert that into your document. What you can do is use music notation software to output a music score to an image (like a. Microsoft Word just isn’t designed for creating musical notation and composing. If your needs extend further than inserting the basic musical symbols above, you might have to look at other software. For example, you can use the following short codess to get their corresponsing musical notes: However, by using Word’s unicode representation of those musical symbols, we can create them in a document. There is no easy way to insert musical notes in Word.