Harmony College Northwest 2026: Full Schedule

2:30pm PDT

Friday June 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT

“By the end of these three sessions, you’ll be able to enter a melody, build it into a 4-part arrangement, and export learning tracks to share with singers.”

MUSESCORE 1 — Getting Notes on the Page
🎯 Goal: “I can create a score and enter a clean melody.”

This class will cover the basics:

Single staff template
New score>>General >> treble clef to get a single line
Change to continuous view
Setting up a MuseScore document

save file with a title
number measures
change key and time signatures
pickup measure (how to do)
show how to delete measures --

Entering tenor notes
Note entry basics:

Notes and Rests
Ties and slurs
Accidentals

✅ Success Moment
You will be able to play and hear their melody.

Faculty

Mike Rosen

Faculty

Mike Rosen started using the music notation software Nightingale in the early 90s, when he got tired of singing from third-generation copies of poorly written mimeographs. He went to Finale NotePad around 2002, then PrintMusic, and finally the full Finale. Back then, SPEBSQSA was... Read More →

Judy Galloway

Webmaster, EVG-HCNW

Music is my world! I love sing, direct, and learn.

Friday June 12, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT

MAKING MUSIC

3:45pm PDT

MUSESCORE 2 - From Melody to Barbershop

Friday June 12, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT

“By the end of these three sessions, you’ll be able to enter a melody, build it into a 4-part arrangement, and export learning tracks to share with singers.”
MUSESCORE 2 — From Melody to Barbershop
🎯 Goal: “I can turn a melody into a 4-part barbershop score.”

This class will cover

Using a 4-staff score

Make changes as needed for key, time, clefs, etc
Enter tenor, copy to other staves
Copying notes into another staff

Repitch Tool

Looking for differences in the durations and editing (triplets)
Applying repitch tool

Hearing and Exporting Learning Tracks

Using the Mixer

✅ Success Moment
Hear 4 parts together and be able to export something to send to a singer.

Faculty

Mike Rosen

Faculty

Judy Galloway

Webmaster, EVG-HCNW

Music is my world! I love sing, direct, and learn.

Friday June 12, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT

MAKING MUSIC

9:45am PDT

MUSESCORE 3 - Publishing / Barbershop Workspace

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT

“By the end of these three sessions, you’ll be able to enter a melody, build it into a 4-part arrangement, and export learning tracks to share with singers.”

🔵 MUSESCORE 3 — Polishing with the Barbershop Workspace
🎯 Goal: “I can prepare a clean, usable arrangement for sharing or submission.”
This class will cover:

Imploding

Understanding Voices (crucial for barbershop)
Voice 1 vs Voice 2 on same staff (Tenor/Lead or Bari/Bass situations)

BBS Workspace / BHS palettes

What they are
Why they save time (don’t over-explain setup)

Adding Lyrics

Syllable alignment
Hyphenation
Multiple verses (light intro)

Basic formatting:

System spacing
Readability for singers

Submitting to BHS

High-level overview only
What “ready” means (not perfection)

✅ Success Moment
Your score will be ready to hand out in rehearsal.

Faculty

Mike Rosen

Faculty

Judy Galloway

Webmaster, EVG-HCNW

Music is my world! I love sing, direct, and learn.

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am PDT

MAKING MUSIC

11:00am PDT

Barbershop Tag Writing

Saturday June 13, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

Become a tag writer!!!
Come learn the basics for barbershop tag writing. We’ll start with a 4-measure tag melody and lyric which you can download and print after you register. Please bring your ideas for the tag to class where we’ll find the chords to create the 4-part harmony of barbershop and add some embellishment. Then we’ll try out our creations by comparing them to barbershop tag writing guidelines, listening, and singing.

Faculty

Janice Wheeler

Arrangers Workshop

Longtime Region 13 Arranger Education Specialist and Coordinator of the Region 13 Arrangers WorkShop at HCNW, and the Tag Writing Contest cosponsored by Region 13 and HCNW. Faculty for Region 13 and HCNW. Holds multiple Specialist Certificates from Berklee College of Music including... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

MAKING MUSIC

1:15pm PDT

Music Software - Q&A

Saturday June 13, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT

Mike has for years been preparing arrangements using Finale for publication through BHS. Now that Finale is no longer able to upgraded, Mike has been working again with BHS to evaluate other solutions for preparing arrangements for publication.
This weekend, Mike will be focusing on MuseScore (which is FREE), but he's more than willing to answer questions on Finale, Dorico, SmartScore, and MuseScore.

You can download MuseScore at: https://musescore.org/en

Faculty

Mike Rosen

Faculty

Judy Galloway

Webmaster, EVG-HCNW

Music is my world! I love sing, direct, and learn.

Saturday June 13, 2026 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT

MAKING MUSIC

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3:45pm PDT

9:45am PDT

11:00am PDT

1:15pm PDT

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