Don Simons wrote:
Does anyone know how well or easily any of the commercial programs handle
these matters? Specifically
1. Score entered and printed in concert key, parts printed transposed;
2. Score entered in concert key, score and parts printed transposed;
3. Score entered transposed, score and parts printed transposed;
4. Score entered transposed, score printed in concert key, parts printed
transposed;
and MIDI file OK in all cases.
Finale allows to specify different staff attributes for transposing
instruments in his 'staff tools'. Then, from the 'options' menu, you can
choose to print the entire score in concert key or transposed. It seems
very simple, but I have no experience on this matter.
I have some experience in the use of Score (very good but very old
musical editor). It uses an auxiliary program, PAGE, to transpose only
the entire score. It's possible to transpose the parts after the
extraction. It's possible enter transposed the parts of the transposing
instruments or to use the transpose command to make the conversion in a
second time, but you have to do it for every single system. A very
annoying thing!
Mup has a simple and efficient method: you can specify the interval to
transpose the music data in score context (for the whole piece) or in
staff context (for transposing instruments) e.g. 'transpose = up minor
6'. If you comment this line you can print the score and the parts in
concert key.
With PMW you can transpose (in amount of semitones) the entire score
either in the heading directive (e.g.: transpose -2) or via -t option
when you invoke the program. You also can transpose a single staff in
the stave data directive (e.g.: [stave 1 treble 1 transpose 3 key c]).
Bye
Luigi
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