Intro to Noteflight

http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/2a4bcfb2a960fafcea067531ac067d78ccd8ebc6

As part of this week's assignment, we had to become familiar with the free online notation software program Noteflight. After exploring another freeware notation program (MuseScore) last week, I find myself preferring Noteflight. As a person who is quite familiar with the ins and outs of Finale, Noteflight offers its users more options than MuseScore. I really like how users can create scores and share them over the net with other Noteflight users, and how a person can email a URL to their score or embed it to a blog (which I have done later) to share music with others. This would be a great tool to have students use as they learn to compose their own music; they can input it quite easily, edit it, share it in whatever way they want, and get feedback from other users or instructors anywhere they have access to an internet-connected computer. Noteflight's interface is quite user friendly, and offers quick access to articulations, dynamics, and other more advanced features that freeware notation software normally does not give the user access to. Overall I was quite impressed, and will consider using this software with future students of my own.

Part of the week's assignment was to replicate an arrangement of "A Bicycle Built for Two" by Harry Dacre. Below, find my score, embedded into the blog, which should allow you to play the file. It should automatically scroll for you as the music progresses.