Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:23:51 -0400 From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Finale] Tremolos To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
"In other words, what isn't easy isn't done, and what isn't done isn't supported. This limits the composer's opportunities to the software's capabilties. 'Writing to the software' has become a creativity curse for those not strong enough to push back at technology. Any push back, however, may lead to a more extreme segregation or stratification of composers into a collaborative class and a rejectionist class..." "Once we cycle back out of these conservative artistic times and experiment once becomes part of the composer's attitude, the software situation (and codification dilemma) may improve -- or, as I suggested above, it may result in further stratification of composers into a collaborative class and a rejectionist class." Dennis I can testify to this change. I have some old pieces of mine that I keep intending to set, but "Finale" makes life so difficult, I do a little bit and put it aside. Even though I do not believe Finale is a composers tool, I am aware that none of my recent works pose significant problems within Finale. It is probably happening subconsciously, but I wonder what the cumulative effect will be after a generation of composers who may know no viable alternative way of working. The same happened in the early sixteenth century. All the ligatures and colouration that made 15th century music so complex (e.g. mensuration canons) disappeared with the introduction of printed music using movable type. I suspect something similar is happening now and there will be no cycling "back out of these conservative artistic times." But there will be new developments, so I do not think we need worry! Regards, Michael Lawlor -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
