This is an interesting discussion! I almost hired a person on the list who clearly is not on the same page as I, the composer.
When I hire an engraver, copyist, I pay him/her and expect the files. We send them back & forth for revisions. and that can be by pdf file... but I expect the final final after I send in the check, to get the files. I surely do NOT do this to be competitive or take the style of the engraver. I had one excellent engraver for serveral years. But after not doing my work and putting me off for several months, he suddenly told me he was going to do other things, leaving me without the work I really did & do need. What would I do if I didn't have those files to continue the work? Further, I'm an electronic music composer too. Often I turn Finale files into midi and change the patches creating unusal sounds with the precomposed music. I MUST have the files to do this. If the engraver is paid for her/his work, I cannot understand the desire not to give the composer the music files. Because I am always changing things, and it costs me a fortune, and I think I might be a pain to the copyist with all the changes, yes, I pay for them, I feel like I doing the copyist a favor by doing these little things myself & not bothering him/her. Best wishes Vivian Vivian Adelberg Rudow New: 20th ASCAP Plus Award CALL FOR PEACE, flute and tape, performance An Die Musik, Baltimore Composers Forum, December 1, 2006, 8:00PM, Sara Nichols, flute, FREE. www.vivianadelbergrudow.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
