Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius (was Review of Valentin's Opera)

[Graham Percival]

No, but we will in two months plus three days.  I'll keep a
reminder about this thread for that time.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:00:02PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 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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