Jane and I are looking after the Christmas music for the training band and one or two of the pieces are missing master scores. In particular there is a jaunty piece that suits the build up to Christmas called Jingo Jango. It isn’t too difficult but manages to rise above the pedestrian standards of some simple arrangements. However, the conductor only had a copy of the flute part to work from, which isn’t much help when the flutes take an extended rest!

I already had the tuba and clarinet 3 parts (me and Jane) typed up on MuseScore and I’ve now fed enough additional parts in to have a much better representation of what is going on across the band. I continue to be very impressed with what MuseScore can accomplish, including the playback side, and it is a real boon for this kind of task.