Frank Nordberg wrote: | John Chambers wrote: | > One of my favorite ways to test music software is to attempt to enter | > some of the better-known Balkan songs. For instance, Jovano, Jovanke, | > which wants a meter of 7/8 and a key signature of one sharp and two | > flats (^f_B_e). It's a simple little love song, right? | > | > So far, all commercial music packages have flunked this test. | | Really? | | Have another look at: | http://www.musicaviva.com/pdf/turkey/jovano-jovanke-d.pdf | and | http://www.musicaviva.com/pdf/turkey/jovano-jovanke-e.pdf
Hey, cool! Which program did those? If it was Finale, they've added some capabilities since I last tried it. That was a few years ago. One minor quibble is that I'd put key sig's sharp on the F space rather than the f line. In fact, I'd place it under the _e, saving a bit of horizontal space and improving the appearance a tiny bit. But that's picking nits. The position and order of key-sig accidentals isn't really very standardized for anything other than the classical keys. I just think it looks nicer there. (Then there are the styles of music that require different accidentals in different octaves ...) I'd guess that there are "professional" music packages that can do non-classical music, because I've seen recent books that do things like this. For example, Mel Bay's recent klezmer collection has non-classical key signatures. I don't know how they produced the book, of course. Maybe they used TeX? When I find myself inside stores that sell things like music software, I do like to test them out a bit. I think the sales guys may think I have strange musical tastes. But the "Mysteres des voix Bulgares" CDs were best-sellers worldwide, and you'd think that any halfway-decent music software should be able to handle what you hear on the top-selling CDs, at least if it's "trad" music. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
