At 6:01 PM -0400 10/10/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:43 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
additional weight could be given to such a compilation as you have
suggested if responders gave an indication of how many potential
finale users they have suggested use sibelius instead, and if
certain people could let MM know that they are also responsible for
the ordering of multiple licences for the institution where they
work. i think i remember who it was, but won't mention the name, a
few years back said s/he was an avowed finale user and would not
switch to sibelius, essentially because of the time invested, but
that when the order went in for the lab (?) s/he was responsible
for outfitting, it went to sibelius.
That description might apply to John Howell and me. 15 workstations
(all of them) at my school upgraded this year to Sibelius 5, but not
Finale.
We've actually evolved beyond workstations, and did so a few years
ago. Our former computer lab is now simply a piano class lab. All
students here are required to have computers and software specified
by their department, and in the Music Department Mac laptops are
strongly favored and all majors are expected to have, and to use,
their own Sibelius software. And they really do carry their
computers to class. (Whether they're taking notes or playing Super
Mario is a separate question!!) That's about 40 incoming Freshmen or
more each year. Every year. We were forced to drop Finale the year
students were scheduled to arrive with OSX Macs, and MakeMusic had no
program that would run on them.
And compared with what engineering students have to spend--on
textbooks as well as software--our students get off cheaply!
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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