I teach at Cal State Long Beach, in a department that's 40-50% music
ed majors. They get some Sibelius instruction early on. Even still,
almost half the ed majors use Finale. A majority of the other music
students use Finale and about 30 of 35 comp majors. We never require
them to choose one or the other.
What they all come to realize is that both programs take work to learn
and they tend to make their choices based on what their friends use,
as they'll be their sources for help. Of course some choose by which
ever one they can find in bootleg. Only a small handful ask about the
learning curve. Money and friends with knowledge seem much more
important.
I teach the advanced Finale class and find that not just the composers
are interested. I usually get one or two Sibelius users as well. Less
than half return to Sibelius after the class.
Beginning next spring, all majors will be required to take a basic
tech class so they can negotiate a simple recording and a basic score.
We'll gladly offer PC and Mac versions for both Finale and Sibelius.
I'll be interested to see the enrollment numbers in the various
sections.
-Carolyn
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On Aug 6, 2007, at 5:49 PM, John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 9:46 AM +1200 8/7/07, Steve Currington wrote:
I do not intend stopping working with Finale.. But will only be
using
it for say 15% of my work. And in almost all those cases it will be
either 1/ to make it easier for me to pass the Finale file onto
another
Finale user person or 2/ simply to keep my Finale hand in on the off
chance that Finale finally gets it together to a level where I feel
that
Finale has become a "better" product for my working style and work
habits. But I am not holding my breath I am afraid.
Steve Currington
Mature Student Composer
Wellington, New Zealand
I'm glad to have Steve's comments as a student. From our experience
here (and I may have submitted this earlier), I can say that when we
required Finale, about 85% of the students I had hated it, about 10%
got along with it, and only about 5% (including some jazz majors)
actually learned to use it and actually control it. Now that we're
requiring Sibelius, I'd guess that 80-90% of our students are
actually using it and are functional with it.
Now just to be completely honest, I have to admit that we have never
actually taught classes in either Finale or Sibelius, although
students are introduced to its use in several classes starting with
Freshman theory. That's something I do intend to bring up with our
new Department Head.
John
Immature Associate Professor
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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