bill wrote:
God, I can just imagine it. A treble clef-shaped annoying looking thing
that would say things like:
"It looks like you're about to type an anacrusis. Would you like some help
with that?"
"Cleffy has noticed some parallel 5ths or octaves in your score. Would you
like him to correct these to a better voicing?"
"This passage is very high for the bassoon. Would you like to re-score it
for alto saxophone?"
hehehehe
I haven't laughed so hard in months! Thanks, Colin
And we can all wear bracelets embossed with W.W.I.D. for What Would Igor
Do -- we know what he did when confronted with such a complaint about
the Rite of Spring (only the suggestion was to place the problematic
line in the English Horn part) -- he got rid of the complaining
bassoonist and found one who could play the part. If my software ever
did such a thing, I'd get rid of the complaining software and get
software which could handle what I wanted!
By the way, Sibelius has an annoying feature (luckily it is user
switchable!) which colors any notes which are out of normal range for a
particular instrument. So if you label a particular line Flute and then
write a low Bb, they get colored orange so you can see that you've made
a mistake. Quite annoying when working on arrangements where you wish
to enter the original notes and then do whatever transposition you need
to in order to get it into a better key or alter the parts to fit the
ranges of the instruments better.
But luckily Sibelius has made it switchable, so we can tell the "expert"
to shut up!
--
David H. Bailey
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