Mein Gott ... I'm just remembering my MA Thesis, which composed in
1965 or so, and consists of 87 pages of score for 22 wind instruments.
I, of course, hand copied the thing using india ink on vellum from
Cameo Music in Hollywood, working 8 hours per day and averaging 4
pages of MS each day. I still have an indentation on my right index
finger! Just for fun, and to see what it really sounds like (more or
less), I've been transcribing the first movement to Fin06/GPO. I'm
still averaging about 4 pages per day, 'cause that's about all I can
stand of it, but it only takes about an hour to do that much. Times
have certainly changed.
Dean
In my opinion it SHOULD be a required course, but it isn't here,
either, even though music majors are required to have Macs and
Sibelius and to turn in assignments computer-engraved. I guess
they're expected to pick it up in first-year theory and in MIDI class,
but a lot of them don't. Even with recent improvements, the learning
curve is not trivial.
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John & Susie Howell
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