Using MuseScore for an audition?

[sgcim]

This sax player who digs my big band charts referred me for a gig writing a theme song for another big band, but the leader of that big band wants to hear it first. I know how to export the score as a jpg., but is there a free way to send this guy the playback of the chart on MuseScore?
I asked MS, but they just told me about exporting the score as a jpg., not as an MP3.
Can this be done for free?
I'm also going to have to get a copyright on it, but I'm not going to pay DC $65 for something like this. I'll probably just send it to myself by certified mail, which the bandleader recommended.

[John A.]

In musescore you can export a score to several different audio formats or to a midi file. If you export it to an audio file, it'll sound like the playback within Musescore.

You don't have to "get" a copyright. The minute you set a composition into tangible form (e.g., a score or a recording) it's copyrighted. Other steps (such as registering a work with the Copyright office) can help prove your authorship if someone plagiarizes your composition or uses it without permission, but the act of putting it in tangible form is the step that establishes copyright. Sending it in a letter to your self establishes that the work existed on the postmark date, but it doesn't prove you composed it.

[Ukena]

The latest version of Musescore (4) gives a lot of audio export options.




If you can't get the latest version for some reason, there is a very handy application named Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba. It has saved my sanity on more than one occasion – a quick way to get any audio out of your browser (or any application) into your computer. It only works on Macs, though.

[RJVB]

Be aware that MuseScore can also import midi files so it isn't the safest format if you don't want to make theft or simply borrowing easier than it needs to be.

An MP3 or MP4 export (curiously missing from the list of formats above?!) should be fine for your purposes.

Or you rehearse it with your own band and record that

[stevo58]

If nothing else works, you can use Audacity (free) to record it as it is played.

[Ukena]

[...] An MP3 or MP4 export (curiously missing from the list of formats above?!) should be fine for your purposes. [...]

No reason to have an MP4 format. MP4 (used for both video and audio) is a container, not a codec, and usually contains the audio portion in one of the codecs already supported.