Hi David,
I wrote: 'I see that many people (and increasingly so) likes to allow
software (or maybe, other people) to do things ready for them'. The
music software market (admittedly, 'a very tiny niche of a niche
market') is only a small, and perhaps negligeable, part of a very
general trend; but perhaps what happens in this tiny-tiny niche could be
symptomatic. Just now, people is influenced in their decisions (but also
ideas and opinion) by datas sent0 from (other) computers (but people
often forgot that behind that computer there is always a man, and often
is a company); and the demand for 'ready made solutions' is increasing
everywhere, I think.
When I approached this - very general - trend to 'something Italy (and
other countries as well) has suffered some decades ago', it was by
'similarity' of course, not by 'identity'.
Btw: I don't know really if all of the music softwares you quote 'forces
anybody to accept the result "out of the box" with no changes possible';
Finale surely does, Sibelius perhaps (I've never used it to its full
potential), others that you have mentioned... I do not think. A
revelatory sign is the possibility of using different fonts - not only
the one(s) supplied by the producer of the software - with ease, and
even in the very same score (or project).
all best,
Paolo
Il 28/01/2019 21:37, David H. Bailey ha scritto:
Hi Paolo,
You make good points. In an ideal world, the software would create
beautiful engraved scores and parts with very little effort, but for
those who want more control it would also allow them to do what they
want.
After all, the whole purpose of computers in the first place was to do
quickly and easily what would take a human many more hours to do and
not so easily. Imagine getting to the end of a 30-part score, all
written beautifully by hand, only to find that 30 notes needed to be
changed in every part, necessitating the complete rewriting of many
pages of the score. Computers were designed to remove that sort of
labor.
Using notation software, which in actuality is a very tiny niche of a
niche market and nowhere near to affecting the entire population is
quite different from the political manifestations you mention when a
country's leader tries to think for the entire population.
One of the great things about good notation software such as Finale,
Sibelius, Dorico, increasingly MuseScore, Notion, Forte, is the amount
of control that each software allows the user to exercise. None of the
programs forces anybody to accept the result "out of the box" with no
changes possible. The more expensive programs Finale, Sibelius and
Dorico allow more control over more items so the users indeed have the
ability to think and sweat all they want over all the little details
that only a music engraver would care about but which would not be
noticed by most performing musicians.
And the best thing in my opinion about the notation software
marketplace is that nobody is forced to use any particular software
unless they have a demanding client who insists on one over the others.
So the "political" comparison doesn't Really hold up, again in my
opinion.
Thanks for raising the issue,
David H. Bailey
On 1/28/2019 9:49 AM, Paolo Alberto Rismondo wrote:
Hi,
A 'political' (maybe) consideration about music softwares other than
/Finale /- that allow me not to mention them explicitly.
I see that many people (and increasingly so) likes to allow software
(or maybe, other people) to do things ready for them. That's an
interesting phenomenon, not at all restricted to 'music softwares';
it's simpler, easier, quicker etc.; you have not even to think with
your head.
Maybe it come close to something Italy (and other countries as well)
has suffered some decades ago (I mean, a single person that think, do,
etc. for a whole nation).
I continue to prefer that the software do what I want, even if I had
to find myself alone.
Paolo A. Rismondo
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