Bernie Zelitch

I just finished three songs for a performance at a Boston Singers Resource concert 6pm Thursday, June 17.  

Professional baritone Nathan Halbur of Boston is now learning Stories in a Drawer, Split Ends (Like Good Friends) and Last…

By Bernie Zelitch

You may know the "Track Changes" feature in Microsoft Word. This highlights differences between the current document and another version from yourself or somebody else.

Music software has no built-in "Track Changes" equivalent. But within limits, music…

By Bernie Zelitch

I'm looking forward to hearing a friend, Jacob Hiser, play two piano concerto movements with the Lowell, MA, Philharmonic Orchestra this Sunday,

He didn't mention his performance two months ago during catch up over coffee in…

By Bernie Zelitch 

Preserving private comments 

The last blog showed how all edits happen in the file called latest-<title>.musx. All preserved versions are to files containing the date of preservation.

These concepts come from software versioning systems. Let's borrow another…

By Bernie Zelitch

Crescendo. Allegro ma non troppo. 

There is an invented language for what notes to play in music. Even non-musicians know that. But a week ago, I realized that less known is the language for how fast or…

By Bernie Zelitch  

Revised 11/3/19

A few months ago, I changed a passage in a Finale music document. But it wasn't the latest document, so I spent many painful hours to merge the two. 

I put on an engineer's hat…