Music Notation Intuitive Music Composition
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1. gt Play the score or any part of it and watch the notes colored as they are played Pizzicato plays the tempo accents nuances and special effects Pizzicato includes a Sound Library with 1 2 GB of audio samples for a realistic sound rendering of your music You can export your music to an audio WAV file and use it to create a CD gt You can transpose the score from one tone to another just by changing the key signature or by selecting an interval gt Follow the score playing and scrolling on the screen and see the notes colored as they are played gt If you are learning an instrument you can use soloist your benefit You can enter your exercises and play them with the computer as a reference for rhythm and pitch You will improve quickly and enjoy even more playing your instrument gt Without being an expert you can easily create and edit a drum pattern You can use the standard notation or the visual piano roll editor Pizzicato can play the pattern in a loop while you edit it so you can intuitively modify it until you like it Toms Ets PE n a n gt This version also includes templates for percussion instruments like timpani xylophone tubular bells and other instruments found in the orchestra Pizzicato Light gt Pizzicato Light is an introductory version to learn music2. eOe Pizzicato A music software for everyone and for every need Your Advantages Why Choose Pizzicato gt According to your needs you will find a Pizzicato version that will fit you You do not need to pay more than the price for the functions you really need to use gt If your needs evolve you can upgrade at any time to a superior Pizzicato version as described by the diagram below gt Whether you are a beginner or professional musician Pizzicato offers you an easy and user friendly approach to creating music with acomputer gt The music course and software tutorials do not require any music or computer knowledge They are surprisingly simple to read and apply I ve been through many tutorials before but from my point of view this has got to be one of the best written ones I ve ever seen It explains everything in an easy to understand step by step description and I love the examples There is enough repetition that you really master the concepts and yet it moves quickly Judy Z United States gt Pizzicato offers a free and unlimited technical support through the Internet for any question you may have while installing or using Pizzicato gt You can always email technical support from the editor of the software This guarantees clear efficient and customized answers within 24 hours during work days gt A user forum a database of frequentl
3. Music Notation E and lt P _ ee Y eee gt ot EF lt Intuitive Music Composition A Full Range of Music Software for the Musician Pizzicato Guitar gt Pizzicato Guitar contains all the tools you need to write sheet music for the guitar or other fretted instruments like the banjo the bass etc gt You can enter the music with the mouse on a tablature or TAB staff or on a standard staff You can display both staff and TAB or tablature and Pizzicato can convert from one to the other Me and My Guitar By John Jones HE aa E gt Enter the notes with the help of a guitar fret board window showing the name of the notes gt You can select the time signature add a chord progression add lyrics and most of the standard notation features like triplets measure and page numbers Pizzicato Choir gt With Pizzicato Choir you can enter music for the choir print nice looking sheet music and hear it through your computer sound card gt You can start a score easily by using one of the choir templates Select the time and key signatures adjust the clefs and start entering the notes i pe No e ee e gt With the help of a tool palette the mouse and the keyboard you can easily enter the notes rests and most of the symbols you can find
4. H General presentation e Music notation program to write each element of a score e Print the score in high quality e Play the score on any sound card or MIDI synthesizer e For Windows 2000 XP Vista W7 and Mac OS X 10 4 or later Documentation e Manual and software in English e Progressive lessons to help using the software e Full user manual on screen e Paper manual with the most important lessons e Hints to help find the tools and their keyboard shortcuts e Music course suited to users with no musical background e Practical training exercises to learn playing the music keyboard _ 9 99 __ ea 0o 0 eO Note entry e Note entry with the mouse the music keyboard and or the piano window _ 0 0 0 gt o o e Play on the music keyboard and Pizzicato transcribes the notes on the screen 9 0 0 0 _ 9 0 0 o e Automatic spacing and layout of notes 0 90 0 0 0 OO e The added or edited notes are played as an immediate feedback B5 9 __9M _ __ 1 0eT1 __0 e Automatic scrolling of the score while playing A AA o ai gt MHeii _ 0 __ __ ovr M__o e Visualization of playing notes by coloring or with a scrolling vertical bar 9 9 _ _ G _ I o e Up to 8 voices per staff
5. _ _ _ _6_8 _68_6 __0_0_0__0 __6 _6 __o e Edit and view the score using a graphic zoom _ 9 _ 9 _ 0 _ 0 __ 0 0 0 o e Linear view that displays the measures side by side outside of any page layout 99 9 _ 9 __ 9 _ _ _ _ I 0o eo e Grace notes and various note heads 0l _ _ 0O 0O 0O e Custom layout of notes inside a measure advanced options for the layout of measures 9 9 _ 9 _ _ __ _o e Automatic transposition function amp A aA AN _i OO 0 o _On _o _ e Cross staff beaming for piano scores tO e Specific tools to display and play single and multiple grace notes _ AY _ _ _ lJ _ _109___0 e Special copy paste function to split or merge voices eB 9 _ 9 e Note color can be customized for each note _____ ___g _ _ __9_ _909_ _ 9 _ J _ 0s _0 _ 0 e Function to assign note colors according to the note name or pitch _ ___g ____9 _ e Graphic note editor window to view and edit the notes as small lines on a piano roll 9 9 _ 9 _ __ _I0 Mo e Function to display the no
6. file that you can use in other programs gt Insert images and graphics in the page layout of the score You can write music tutorials and exercises books directly in Pizzicato You can print in any paper format including booklet printing gt Pizzicato Beginner has the global view designed to provide you with the most advanced editing tools of Pizzicato all in one window for your convenience Pizzicato Notation Pizzicato Notation contains all the notation tools of Pizzicato Professional including unlimited staves and pages full custom page layout guitar tablature or TAB multiple grace notes handling drums and percussion notation and in fact all the notation features found in all the other Pizzicato versions gt You can use all clefs composite time signatures advanced key signatures You can create free measures with no time signature multi measure rests and customize the measure appearance and content SS gt You can print in any size gt You can open multiple documents and have many scores in each document gt You can extract individual parts from a conductor score and print them gt You can add new graphic and MIDI symbols to the palettes gt Import and export scores to musicKML files With such files you can exchange music score with users of other music notation software gt Optimize a score so that only the playing instruments are printed on the conductor sc
7. make exercises write small scores 1 or 2 pages and use basic MIDI and audio recording features You can also start practicing the music keyboard and make your first steps into music composition gt It contains a full music theory course with many examples that combine with the discovery of the tools to enter music You can then directly apply what you learn in practice With it you will be able to understand music notation gt Exactly as you can create a letter witha word processor Pizzicato gives you the tools to write print and hear your music gt You can enter the music with combination s of mouse clicks tool palettes keystrokes the virtual piano keyboard the guitar fret board window or directly through a MIDI keyboard step by step or in real time Notes gt You can add accidentals triplets chords as well as many other symbols and hear their influence on the playback of notes gt Pizzicato Beginner is a general purpose music notation program gt In comparison to Pizzicato Light you can enter music for up to 16 instruments staves and add as many measures and pages as necessary The page layoutis free and you can display the measures and systems on the page as you want gt You can import standard MIDI files from the Internet display the score modify it play it and print it MIDI Files el z gt You can export one or more measures as a graphic
8. note sequences and rhythm sequences that you can combine gt The possible combinations are countless and will give you raw melodic material which you can adapt Notes Rhythms H edd 4 j1111 Melody Drag Drop How Do You Find Chords gt You can use thousands of prepared chord progressions You can also navigate inside several hundred harmonic spaces available and create chord progressions intuitively by listening to your music through these chords gt If you have a melody Pizzicato offers you a chord analysis to find the possible chords that can match that melody gt As there are often many possibilities a multiple choice is suggested for each chord and you can select the one you prefer by listening G7 c Tonal analysis Dm Om v G7 100 on raa E p ow D mn 80 The Score Arranger gt The arranger works directly on the score You can switch between the original and arranged versions gt When you find a melody you can do a chord analysis and add prepared structures like a string quartet or add secondary voices with rhythmic preferences Pizzicato will arrange the score to match the chords gt You can use built in styles to easily arrange a melody or you can use the individual instrument patterns to create your own style gt You will discover many other music com
9. signatures may be specified or changed anywhere in the score gt Here is a unique software specifically designed for music notation of drums and percussion instruments gt In addition to the standard notation tools notes rests symbols time signature triplets you can define custom drums and percussion maps so that each line of a staff will play the instrument of your choice Bass drum gt You can manage the measures and staves on the page as you want in any size Add free text blocks measure and page numbers You can edit the music in linear mode all measures side by side or in page view where you see the score as it will be printed Pizzicato can play the score with real instrument sound samples to give a more realistic rendering Nuances tempo and other symbols will also be played You can export the music as an audio WAV file gt You can use standard note heads for the drums individually or globally gt Staves can have from 1 up to 16 lines so that you can create custom presentations of drum sheet music You can have up to 8 staves of drums or percussion T gd Ideed dd ooesees a gt Pizzicato Drums will import MIDI files with up to 8 tracks and can split the individual drum instruments so that you can easily edit the parts and print nice drum sheet music gt You can enter music by playing it ona MIDI keyboard and split the left and right hands on two staves
10. you need to write music for keyboard instruments like the piano the organ or the synthesizer with up to 4 staves gt Enter the notes with combinations of mouse clicks tool palettes keystrokes the virtual piano keyboard window or directly through a MIDI keyboard step by step or in real time ale mf gt You can add accidentals tuplets chords as well as many other standard symbols and hear their influence on the playback of notes gt This version contains all the tools of Pizzicato Professional related to keyboard notation For instance you can manage advanced pianistic notation and multiple grace notes both for page layout and playback gt The measure content is automatically adjusted and you can zoom in and correct any aspect of music notation at any time gt You can copy paste transpose measures and handle up to 8 rhythmic voices per measure Pizzicato Soloist Pizzicato Soloist contains all the tools you need to write music for a solo instrument You can print nice solo sheet music whether for brass woodwind string instruments or any solo instrument written on one staff gt Use the various tools to enter notes rests accidentals chords lyrics triplets nuances tempo markings Select the instrument sound you want Add repeats multi rests and many more symbols that you can find in a score gt As with any other Pizzicato version the clef time and key
11. 9 _9 _ e Levels of UNDO H 10 50 10 10 10 10 10 10 50 50 e Document manager to handle and access your music documents easily 1 2 I eoe e IA 0 o e Tool palettes with a large selection of graphic symbols_ 0 0 0 0 __ 0o o o o e Customized tool palettes ee 8B _O e Sequencer piano roll score and instruments windows so 0 0 _ eNAH 00 O0 e Customized instrument window mixing table 1 00 e Special window designed to read a score with no page turn __ _ _ _ oea a e Drums and percussion notation and playing H a_c7 9g e O4o4i o_O x uc crcrao _m imomo o e Parts extraction from a conductor score A tv OO e Import NIFF files from third party scanning programs _ AANrmN N ii ese e MusicXML export function to exchange scores with other music software _ 9_ _0 _L _0 0u _ O e MusicXML import function from other music software ANY_Y YNr Naa B 0 _ e Automatic saving and backup of files A i 0 Oo Music composition tools Intuitive composition e 35 Accompaniment styles eff Tf gt _ _ _o e Import Yamaha style files STY and use them in the real time and score ar
12. em Clefs key signatures and time signatures e Treble clef G and Bass clef OO 0 0O Drum clef uaa M S ____ __ __ e All other clefs OQ _ 4H _xo _ _ _ 0 _ O_O e Keys signatures from 7b to 7 OOOO 0 0 0 0 0 o o e Arbitrary key signatures b and mixed TOT O 0 0 0 0O O O e Different key signatures for each staff transposing instruments Bea eO e Time signature selection OOO O 0 0 0 0O O O eo e Composite time signatures 3 4 4 6 2 8 Coo 0 nr __ 2 W_o e Flexibility to display hide the time and key signatures create free measures cut 9 _ 0 0 gt I _ _O _ measures e Easy handling of upbeats and incomplete measures 9 0 __ 0 0 0M o Chords text lyrics chord symbols e Chords diagrams for the guitar HAHRH pA pYANYN J ATAD_ _ _N_AMAm_ _4j gt 2W 4 gt 4w gt oe 0 9M __ i 1 Ae o e Transcription of chords into notes _ tO O_O e Chord analysis and chord finding on a melody 8M 87 _0 e Customized chord library ih 0O OO e Chord progression fast encoding window HAASA A NNN 5 0 oO9l_ o e Text blocks for titles author n
13. essions rhythmic and melodic sequences e Score arranger Starting with a chord progression you may add individual instrumental _9_9 __9 _ patterns from the library or from your own creation A set of harmony rules help you to add secondary voices and to construct your score Customized harmonic rules for arran ger 1 0L e Music generator A programmable module used to create musical patterns rhythms ARNN __ 9 _ 9 melodies chord progressions by the thousands starting from simple criteria you define These patterns may then be dragged and dropped inside your own composition e Library of predefined vectorial melodies that you can drag and drop into the score _ J eoo Customized music vectors _ _ e Graphic music vectors Draw the shape of a melody directly on the staff and watch __________9 _ it be transformed into a melody based on chords and scales You can reshape the rhythmic dimension in several ways This is the basis of intuitive composition e Creation and handling of general chords and scales that can be used with the score arranger _9 9 _ and the music vectors e Extract and create new music libraries from existing MIDI files by individual pattern ___ _ instruments and use them in your composition by simple dra
14. g and drop into the score Audio functions e You may open listen to record and edit standard audio WAVE files wav extension 9__9 __ _L e 0o 0 o e You may export your music score to a WAVE file so that you can use that file with your _ _ _L _ _ _s_ 00 _0 _ CD burning software to create an audio CD e You may associate one WAVE file with the score playing in MIDI for instance to add your _9_ 9 __ 9 _I _ M __0 voice or an instrument through a microphone e You may associate several WAVE files with the score playing in MIDI for instance to add _ ANA AMA _____LLLLCcC tmH __ __ your voice or an instrument through a microphone e A real instrument orchestral sound library 1 2 GB gives you a realistic sound performance g 9 _ _ _ _ Ir _ 0 _O e You can import sounds in the SoundFont format and use them directly in your music AAA rr e You can adjust tuning and the exact frequencies of each note of the scale to affect the 0L playback of the score e A modular customized sound synthesizer helps you to create your own sounds and work ono rr o instrument samples that you can use in a music composition e A spectral analyzer helps you to work on sound frequencies and resynthesize the signal
15. in a score gt The music is automatically spaced You can zoom in and adjust any aspect of the music notation at any time gt A full library of chord diagrams is available and you can add your own to complete the library gt You can work with up to four fretted instruments playing together 4 standard or tablature staves Adjust the page layout freely add text blocks and print the score gt As you enter the notes Pizzicato plays them through the computers soundcard Pizzicato can play the score at any tempo and you can use this feature to practice on your own guitar You can easily follow the score The notes are colored as they are played and an arrow follows the score gt Pizzicato can play the score through the Windows or Mac soundcard or it can use its own series of samples from real guitars basses and other instruments You can export it to an audio WAV file and use it to burn a CD You can add chord symbols up to 8 lines of lyrics as well as free text blocks gt You can enter the lyrics just by typing in the text syllables and Pizzicato will place them nicely centered on the notes gt You can even copy the lyrics from the text of another program Word Open Office You can adjust the position of lyrics and change the font size and color of each line A mour et paix sont les mots Aah_ Ooh mon en fa
16. nt gt You can easily transpose one or more measures or the full score gt Adjust the page layout the number of measures for each staff and display the music as you want on the page gt Pizzicato will also help you to learn your part and sing while the computer plays the other parts at any tempo gt A set of specific symbols for the guitar may be added to the score and they will affect the performance of the playback gt Additionally you can edit all effects graphically like pitch bend and volume You can also edit the notes graphically gt Add an audio track and synchronize it with the score For instance you can record your voice or a real guitar instrument and hear it together with the score gt You can import MIDI files from the Internet and edit transpose and print them with up to 4 staves gt You can create an audio WAV file of the score and use it to create a CD gt You can select which staves will be on the audio file so that you can create a CD with separate parts or all parts except one and give them to the choir members to help them practice their parts gt You can also increase your knowledge of music theory The included full music theory course will help you improve your performances in the choir and you will enjoy singing even more Pizzicato Keyboard gt Pizzicato Keyboard contains all the tools
17. ore gt Aspecial copy paste function helps you to merge staves together or to split apart an existing staff gt You can copy paste transpose measures and you can use and manipulate up to 8 voices per measure gt Display the note names and see which notes are part of a chord with colors gt Play or sing while listening to the score at any tempo to improve your skills and rhythm gt With it you can edit the music notation directly edit the notes graphically as ona piano roll you can draw effect curves to create a customized crescendo synchronize one audio track and edit a chord progression very easily gt With the progressive courses in the manual and or by watching the video tutorials on the site you will create and print beautiful looking sheet music gt Pizzicato Notation contains everything you need to write your own music from a soloist to a full orchestra Beethoven Pizzicato Composition Light gt Pizzicato Composition introduces the concept of intuitive music composition This is where you can start exploring music composition like never before gt You will find innovative tools to explore harmony melody and rhythm gt You will also find many tools to help you arrange music gt You can export your composition as a MIDI file an audio WAV file or to musicXML files that you can use to create a CD or to work further in any other music software Howeve
18. position tools all of them to help you compose more intuitively gt This version contains all the intuitive composition tools found in Pizzicato Professional gt You can use up to 16 MIDI ports gt You can customize the harmony rules of the arranger gt Virtual keyboards transform your single keyboard into a multi sound keyboard gt Design custom harmonic spaces based on tonalities degrees and chord types gt Create custom chords and scales and use them with the arranger to influence the music gt Extract and create new music libraries from existing MIDI files and use the individual patterns to build your own composition gt You can intuitively draw the shape of a melody on the staff and Pizzicato will transform it into a melody that matches that shape and the existing chords and scales gt Import Yamaha styles into Pizzicato and use them in your compositions gt Create a harmonic space from existing chord progressions for instance from a MIDI file Then compose a new chord progression in the same harmony style Create Your Own Sounds gt With Pizzicato Composition Pro you can also express your creativity and imagination by creating new sounds to play your music gt You can construct new sounds with a modular synthesizer by assembling building blocks gt Drag and drop the sounds directly into the score and hear them play your music a SA P zz cato Features 413 i F
19. r Pizzicato Composition does not handle page layout and printing Miusic Composition gt Composing music consists of finding an idea and structuring this idea into a full music composition gt Pizzicato gives you a series of tools to find an idea and to develop this idea It DOES NOT compose for you You are the composer gt These tools help you explore musical possibilities with an unmatched easiness gt At every step of a music composition you must make choices that will finally produce a unique composition gt You can make these choices with intuitive tools that help you to sort out the possibilities by listening and decide by yourself if they transmit the atmosphere or the feelings you want your music to express The Musical Desktop gt Pizzicato offers you a musical desktop on which you can easily and efficiently organize a music composition gt One of the intuitive composition principles is to drag and drop scores made of one or several measures to construct a full composition Chord progressions B Notes Organized random seq Notes Pure random sequence Rhythms Random sequences usi as Pattems by instruments A paniment ia Individual instruments t E Basses Continous pads gt Each score may contain melodies chords accompaniments instruments or effects that can be combined How can you find a melody gt The Pizzicato libraries provide you with numerous
20. rangers OO e Music library tools to help you compose and build music scores on the basis of rhythmic 8 VW09 0 _ melodic and chord blocks e Multi version measures 0O 6 _0_0 __ __0__0 _6 _o e Smart link copy function to help you structure music composition based on rhythmic YY 9 _1 _ melodic and harmonic aspects and transformations e Conductor window to assemble a music composition from several little scores rhythmic eaeoe patterns smart copies e From a single MIDI keyboard the Pizzicato virtual keyboards let you play several l 0O instruments at once Transform your MIDI keyboard into a multiple playing keyboard e Hundreds of harmonic spaces help you to navigate through a given set of chords and to _________________ ___ __ create a chord progression in an intuitive way just by listening e Customized harmonic spaces to create harmony based on scales chords degrees and notes eeo e Real time arranger to select styles and chords in an intuitive way by listening _________Y 9 _9_9 _ e Large libraries with tens of thousands of basic musical structures such as chords chord _ __ _ Y _ progr
21. te names C D E _ _ _ __0_9 _0_o__ gt __0 ___0 __0 _0__0 e Graphic entry mode for notes on the staff _ NN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0o o Structure of the score e Maximum number of instruments staves per system __ 16 999 4 4 1 8 4 9997 999 e Add and remove measures to the score MOa OL O 0 0 C0 0O O O lOl e Custom page layout raea e Insert images and graphics 0 0 e gt Printing at 100 O OOG O O O OOO e e Printing at 85 __ a Oa O ooo T IO e Printing in all sizes zoom for printing 00 0 0 0 0 o e Orchestral score optimization 80 o Reduced staff size LMM e Guitar tablature staves and tablature library _ o _ Hoa 0 _ amp q I_Nm H __O e Multi document multi score _ _ OO e Measure numbers OOO O O 0O 0a OG 0 O e Page numbers 8 _8 _ G OG OOG E OG e Template library to start a standard score OOO 0 0 0 0 0 0 _0 e Score creation wizard a Oo e Drag and drop instruments from the library to build an orchestral score easily Customize ___Y 90 _9 _90 _ th
22. umbers nreo e Up to 8 lines of lyrics each syllable is automatically aligned under the note 9 1 I 9 _ gt MM __o e Lyrics fast encoding window _ ________________ _9 _0 gt _0_BBP Y Y _ 0__0_ e Notes colored according to the current chord structure ____________ _ _ __ _ _9 __ JI 3 0 gt 29 _0_ ee 20 P1zz1c ato eames 1844314 MIDI effects and handling Performance of the score e Realistic performance of symbols nuances tempo accents special effects e MIDI Sequencer e Possibility to add advanced MIDI effects e Graphic editor window for the MIDI effects Volume tempo reverb e Possibility to create your own graphic and MIDI symbols MIDI input s output s _ 1l 1 S 1 1 1 il 1 1 16 16 e GM GS XG synthesizer handling e Drivers to access to sounds of many synthesizers on the market customization of drivers Import MIDI files Number of tracks _ _ 16 999 4 4 1 8 999 999 e Advanced MIDI file import split drums and percussion e Export MIDI files Others e Graphic export of measures to your text processor 99 0 0 _ _ O e Global view with all the best tools of Pizzicato in one single efficient window _ YY 9 _
23. y asked questions FAQ as well as many tutorial videos are also available through the Internet site 24 7 gt You can buy one or more of these versions and they will work independently on the same computer Pizzicato Table of versions Possible upgrade paths Dealer International headquarters ARPEGE Music 29 rue de l Enseignement 4800 Verviers Belgium Tel Fax 32 87 26 80 10 info arpegemusic com _ www arpegemusic com USA Canada office AUNYX Productions Inc 4051 Creek Dr Broomfield CO 80023 USA Tel 303 252 1270 info music composing com www music composing com
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