Don Simons wrote:
> Dan Flath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> >I am a rank newcomer to music typesetting. I want to type in only
> >the melody line from a piano score, then print only that melody line
> >- but transposed into a different key (to facilitate piano/wind
> >intrument duets with my children.) What is the simplest way to do
> >this? Thanks for your guidance.
>
> The simplest way--this is not a joke--is to buy a commercial music
> notation program like Score or Finale. [...]
I agree, but as far as I know Score and Finale are rather the high end
of music notation programs - concerning capabilities as well as
price. There are much cheaper solutions which also fulfill your very
moderate needs. For example, I'm quite happy with a small low-price
program called MusicTime; it has rather poor typesetting qualities,
but it offers real-time MIDI entry as well as transposition. Moreover,
it is very simple to operate, thus just entering, transposing and
printing out a single tune (with a non-professional layout) should be
accomplished quite quickly. I'm sure that other cheap products have
similar properties.
Regards,
Rainer
