On Sep 23, 2007, at 2:36 PM, John Howell wrote:
This is simply a parenthetical comment, not a call for discussion.
One of the lists I'm on is the 18th Century Interdisciplinary
Discussion List--mostly frighteningly literate and knowledgeable
English professors, some of whom know more about 18th century music
than I do.
A recent question came up from someone who needs to "transcribe" an
example of 18th century music (I suspect maybe a broadside) and get
it into a Word document. (This person does not read music at all,
and is working with a high school choir director who has Finale.)
In the course of the discussion, Noteworthy Composer was brought
up. I thought it had disappeared, but there's an active website and
development seems to be ongoing. Version 1.0 had very serious
limitations, but whoever is doing the development seems to be
working away at it, and at $39 for a licensed version it's dirt
cheap for someone who doesn't need a lot of power. (Plus there's a
free player that can be downloaded and distributed to, e.g., one's
church choir.) The major limitation remains that it is a Windows-
only program.
Reported without comment.
Sorry, man, but you get the discussion!
One of my clients uses it, and he and the handful of active users are
on a first-name basis with the developer. They email and say, "Hey,
how's about adding multiple verse capabilities in the lyrics?" or
something and he says, "Let me see, how many of you want this?" and
if he gets enough responses, he works it in. Kind of like MakeMusic,
but the process is about eight times faster. 8-)
You are right that it has some serious limitations (can't change the
number of staves per system, for example) but apparently there IS a
fair-to-middling client base among church and synagogue music directors.
One of our problems so far is that when he creates a project in
Noteworthy (then brings it to me when he realised that THIS one needs
the extra power of Finale), there is no easy way to get it into
Finale. MIDI file transcription leaves out lyrics, which takes me
twice as long as wordless music to enter anyway, so that doesn't give
me much of a time savings at all. So far I have started from scratch
on every project.
Christopher
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