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- From: tfullert@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Timothy D Fullerton)
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- Subject: Re: Score?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.173119.28456@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:31:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.154338.26577@zip.eecs.umich.edu> fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields) writes:
-
- >
- >As a Finale expert and a past Score expert, I once again beg to
- >differ. Part extraction is the pot of gold at the end of the
- >computerized notation rainbow, for most of us (other enticements
- >include notation options for e.g. paralyzed individuals, camera-ready
- >artwork for publishing, and "better" notation for those who just can't
- >or won't bring themselves to master clean manuscript). But experience
- >shows that on the average it takes ten times as long to enter a
- >typical orchestral score into a computer as it takes to draw it on
- >vellum, and at least 10% longer to extract parts. But I'm still
- >waiting hopefully for an environment which will actually speed up the
- >overall process, especially speeding up part-extraction, which is pure
- >informational redundancy...
-
-
-
- Well, not at all to slight anyone else's experience, I have some
- alternative experience to report. I, too, am a proficient professional
- copyist whose handwritten work is as elegant as or superior to that of
- Finale. Unfortunately, my speed suffers for that elegance. Therefore, in
- the creation of a pen and ink score when coming from a preexisting
- draft, it seems to me that both come out in about the same amount of
- time. Part extraction is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but
- for me it is a damn good one. The most time comes from laying out the
- first, most elaborate part; but thereafter that can be used as a
- template for the layout of most of the remaining parts.
-
- Also, when the score is to be varied or the arrangement and/or
- instrumentation is to be changed, having it on disk makes it a lot more
- convenient. I do virtually all of my arranging and composition from
- Finale now
-
- Another plus for me is that working on the computer is much less
- monotonous, and discovering that I got a measure off fifty measures back
- is much less emotionally devastating. :-) BTW, my rate of acceleration
- with Finale is much more than that of my hand copywork. If I can do a
- score in the same amount of time either way now, only owning Finale for
- six months, I imagine that a year from now I could be lightning fast
- with it.
-
- On the whole though, if you want your work to have the potential
- to look its best and want to be able to adhere to all notation
- conventions, learn how to do it by hand.
-
- Tim
-