Many music courses, at UVA and elsewhere, rely on printed music and photocopies of printed or handwritten music for music examples. This project will employ selected undergraduate students to move examples from such sources to files using a notation program. We will use MuseScore, a flexible and freely available program. There are also some programs designed to scan pages of music and transfer them to notation files; we will explore these. (They have mixed reputations, as they typically introduce errors that need to be corrected manually.)

We have many music majors with excellent knowledge of MuseScore. I am presently hiring some of them to make MuseScore files of materials for MUSI 3320, Music Theory 2, during this semester. I can easily hire students to work on further materials during summer and/or the 2024-25 school year. It would be desirable to develop MuseScore files for materials in Theory 1, Theory 2, Theory 3, and other theory courses. Then we could expand these resources potentially to many department courses.