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Hello Young Composers, I want to take this time to discuss a new development I have been working on, which is a standalone music notation program for Windows. The program will integrate with this website which will include comments and music management/uploads. I haven't made any official announcements because I wanted to make sure I was actually able to follow through. The first version of this program will be for Windows, and I am happy to say that none of this will be outsourced. Because it will not be outsourced, fixing issues or adding new features will be much easier to accomplish. I plan on making all files saved by this program exportable to Lilypond, which will be worked on after the main phase has been complete. Thus, the vision is after a score has been saved it will be integrated with Lilypond and export a PDF. This will mean that the program could be used exclusively to create Lilypond files. The features of this program will contain everything you would expect in a typical music notation editor. However once the basic framework of the program has been complete, we can be creative and add features that may not exist on competing products.

Depending on the success of the Windows product, I will port it over for the Mac and IPad. But it will take me time to perfect the Windows version. The thing is, I don't know a thing about Mac, so there will be a learning curve for me.

Are you familiar with the melodic form of the minor scale? It has the natural 6th and 7th going up, just like the major scale. And the flat 7 and 6 going down, just like the natural minor scale, and the flat 3rd to keep it minor at all times.