Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:31:49 +0200
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: musescore lands sponsoring?
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> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
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>>  Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org> writes:
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>>>  Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this
>>>  sponsoring project?  What are we missing?
>> 
>>  Somebody who was willing to run a Kickstarter project and make it
>>  happen.
> 
> It is not just that.  There are also a few advantages:
> 
> a) MusicXML export means the results are usable in a variety of notation
>    programs making use of an open standard.

They can check-out any time they like,
But can they ever leave? :)

Let's say I look at their score and see some bad spacing among some set of 
sixteenths (and there is some bad spacing, btw).  Then I see a glaring 
enharmonic spelling of a leading-tone that the MIDI-entry got wrong and 
the editors missed (also there, btw).  Great, I say-- I'll just import the 
corresponding
MusicXML into Finale or whatever, do the tweaks, then export so that I can 
send the patch back to the project for inclusion in the next version.

Is music software X guaranteed to keep the rest of the score exactly the same, 
except for the parts I tweaked when I do the export back to MusicXML?  If so, 
that's an impressive open standard.

> 
> b) volunteers can be given a complete toolchain.  "You can use an editor
>    of your choice" is about as helpful for the average musician as 
> "You
>    can use a lathe of your choice".
> 
> c) "Ok, let's assume I have a MIDI keyboard hooked up to my computer 
> for
>    note entry.  How do I go from there?" "Bring the keyboard back to 
> the
>    store.  We are not going to use it anyway."
> 
> d) "I am well-versed in LilyPond.  What form do you want the entry in?
>    Can I use music functions?  What note language should I be using?
>    Should the voicing be reflected in ad-hoc voices?  Should I be using
>    anonymous parallel voices?  What kind of context mods should I be
>    using?"  "Uh, we better form a committee for that kind of 
> question."

One thing I was thinking was that you could use tags in Lilypond to make 
editions.  Let's say someone had some crackerjack fingerings from various 
concert pianists they collected.  You could have all those available as pdfs 
while 
they all derive from the same codebase, so that when someone finally fixes the 
erroneous d-flat they only need to fix it once.  But I don't see how you could 
do 
that with Musescore.  If one wanted to add dynamics, for example, they'd be 
forced to fork the entire notation project and manually keep up with revisions 
to the original, no?

-Jonathan

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