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Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera) |
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Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:00:02 -0300 |
I think there are a couple of memorable quotes here for the website...
Do we now have a team that takes care of this?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Neil Thornock <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The way that music is entered for LilyPond causes me to think in a more
>> musical way - there have been times when I've been stumped as to how to
>> tell Lily to engrave something, only to realize that even if I did get
>> it exactly as the composer wanted, the music would be confusing to read.
>> LilyPond makes it much easier for me to work in my dual editor+engraver
>> role.
>
> From a compositional point of view, Finale encourages the worst kind
> of laziness. LilyPond, by the manner in which it encourages a focus
> on the notational details, makes me think more critically toward my
> musical material. LilyPond also encourages a kind of healthy
> perfectionism, because control over any element of the score *is*
> possible. Finale keeps resetting to certain bad defaults, and
> eventually the typesetter caves and goes with it. But with Lily I
> can't be lazy about it. And that has translated itself into my
> composition work. It's been a heaven send that way.
>
> --
> Neil Thornock, D.M.
> Assistant Professor of Music
> Composition/Theory
> Brigham Young University
> http://neilthornock.net
>
>
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, (continued)
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, Laura Conrad, 2009/04/02
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, Kieren MacMillan, 2009/04/02
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, Laura Conrad, 2009/04/02
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, Neil Thornock, 2009/04/02
- Re: Review of Valentin's Opera, Jonathan Kulp, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), David Stocker, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Kieren MacMillan, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Valentin Villenave, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Chris Snyder, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Neil Thornock, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera),
Han-Wen Nienhuys <=
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- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Graham Percival, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Valentin Villenave, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Andrew Hawryluk, 2009/04/02
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/04/03
- RE: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Nick Payne, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), Jonathan Kulp, 2009/04/03
- Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera), David Stocker, 2009/04/03