I was sent a score to learn and where the key signature would usually be there is just squares (no #s or b's). It is not the natural sign, and they also appear next to random notes throughout the song. What are they? Please help. I'm just a beginner :)
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BettyJ
ANSWERS: 3
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If your score was sent to you digitally then it's the text encoding problem. Your PC does not have the music score font which was used to create the score. That is why you see these squares, they're simply a replacement for the missing symbols. For beginners, I would really recommend reading this: http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/theory/theory.htm
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You have to download a musical scoresheet font for MS Word. You can get one by googling for "scoresheet font" or something like that. You'll have to download the TTF font and put it into you C:Windows Fonts directory.
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Yes, exactly. That's what I was going to say, but MastaG already figured it out. I don't think you could download a program that would allow you to read it because there are so many notation systems and it would be hard to know which one was used. I think the person that published it should forgot to embed some fonts with the document. If you had a way of contacting the person tat posted the music, maybe thay could try saving it again and see if it comes out better. If possible, I think the best way to post sheet music is as a PDF file.
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