One curiosity about the Sibelius page: in the flute the '3' in the triplet two before m. 55 is reversed. Just wondered if it was an unexpected result of some kludge or another. - DH
> At 11:34 AM 7/18/2007 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >> Looks to me like he spent all his time on the curved lines and didn't >> pay any attention to getting the music notation right -- none of the >> music lines up correctly metrically, and the spacing is quite >> strange. >> >> Now, I don't know how hard Dennis worked to get the spacing right in >> Finale, but the point is, 2 hours on a single page with only half the >> music in it, and most of the music that's there not really properly >> notated doesn't say much to me about Sibelius's capabilities. >> >> All it demonstrates is that it can do curved lines like Dennis did. >> >> And, gad, those ugly 8th/16th rests! Ick! > > I'll agree on the rests. But as to the remainder, I do think the focus on > the larger picture is a good one. I'm impressed by his work, if only > because he had no model to work with, only my PDF draft. > > The spacing on mine is still in draft mode, but yes, it is spaced by hand. > All automatic features are turned off, and the work is being done in page > mode with the measures pre-locked via "fit music". > > There was a lot of page planning to get this right (I have only a pencil > manuscript in front of me), and it required some Skype-based consultation > with the real master, jef chippewa, just in case I was missing some > options. I was, but at the time I was trying to get part extraction and > playback to be easy. As it is, I can't do the latter, and the former will > require a lot of pasting and patching up. > > The music on the left side of the page is entered normally. The space > between there and what follows is a narrow measure with a 'blank' staff > style applied. The remaining part of the page is a single measure with a > large hidden time signature. The music is entered (all in page view for > this score) on separate lines (using other instruments and hidden clefs) > and leftover rests hidden. The clefs, barlines, time signatures, instrument > names, score dividers and the composer's improvisation indicator (that > inverted curved V) are all expressions. The remaining unused measures > between the two solo instruments are hidden with blank staff styles. And as > I mentioned earlier, the curved staves were five curved lines placed with a > metatool. > > At that point, I had a big mess of ugly stuff, and moved each item by hand > to get it legible. After the whole 28-page score is done, I'll go back and > respace more carefully. Then I have to create parts from as much of the > full score as I can use. > > This whole page took four hours, including time spent on preliminary > spacing of the music. > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
