At 3:19 PM -0400 7/5/07, dhbailey wrote:
Why Sibelius wins so many school site-license contracts and Finale
doesn't is something that MakeMusic needs to address. It's not
impossible, it just seems that MakeMusic has no clue what it should
be doing. It's too caught up in the SmartMusic Accompaniment System
to focus the resources it needs to on the Finale marketplace.
For college students writing harmony exercises or orchestrating
4-part chorales or putting down themes for a composition course, the
ability to reset the staff thicknesses or move a single note's dot
.1mm left/right/up/down is simply not important.
Agreed. In fact most of those functions could have been accomplished
with Music Construction Set, or Noteworthy Composer. However, I get
students in my arranging class who are more often 3rd or 4th year
students, and their assignments must (eventually) be turned in as
good looking and easy to read computer printouts, and these are full
arrangements which include a Final Project which must be recorded and
the recording turned in. I suspect the same is true of our jazz
professor's classes, although he himself uses Finale fluently.
And for the folks writing traditional band/orchestra works using
traditional harmonic structures, they don't care one bit about
cross-staff notation.
And I would go out on a limb and speculate that this covers 99% of
arrangers and >90% of composers, including my late wife, while fully
admitting that music notation needs have grown enormously during the
20th century, especially in the music of composers like Dennis B-K.
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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