I am probably going to have to buy a copy of Sibelius soon, just so
that our school can cater for students who already have this
package at home and are more used to it. If a student from our
school goes to a shop without talking to me first, they always seem
to be directed to Sibelius.
I have done the same thing at Sydney Uni - the majority of students
I deal with use Sibelius, until they do our Music Publishing course
which is based upon Finale. I too get the "why don't you teach
Sibelius instead" comments on a regular basis. From talking to the
students, a sizeable proportion of them use cracked versions of
Sibelius, which, being more powerful than Finale Notepad, yields
them better results. While Finale Notepad is free, so are cracked
versions of Sibelius.
Sadly, I have heard that a nearby State School teacher gives out
cracked Sibelius to all his music elective students. Not something
I'm about to do so I will stick with Finale Free.
It is great to be able to tell students to download Finale Notepad
though. For a lot of them, it's all they need anyway.
Yes. Some of our students do HSC compositions on Fin Notepad Free and
only bring it into Finale right at the end for some prettying up.
And those who have bought the AUS$299 education priced Finale
certainly seem to be happy enough.
Three or four students here bought the full Finale last year, all
because they had used the Free version first. And the $299 price is
also for Tertiary and Schools - Sibelius charges AUD$499 for schools.
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Rocky Road - (David Stonestreet)
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