Re: general question for composers

[Shane Brandes]

It varies from project to project. Sometimes direct entry while
composing to full pencil scribbles, generally incomprehensible to
anyone else, but nonetheless complete. Some stuff just gets sketched
out broadly and then finished while doing the data entry as the
overall structure has been defined. The bigger the piece the more
likely it will be done in handwriting first. As has been noted unless
you are careful massive edits can be irritating to accomplish.
Generally keyboard pieces with occasional choral or orchestral things
tossed in for total abstract effort.

Shane Brandes

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:29 AM, David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm a composer in the classical tradition. Sheet music is everything.
> And I compose directly into Lilypond. I don't have access to any
> instruments and don't want to lug around manuscript paper. I also
> don't want to spend time writing all the music out by hand and then
> writing it out *again* in Lilypond. Just do it once (plus all the
> editing, of course). It's just me and my laptop and Lilypond (and a
> few other things but you get the idea).
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Vaughan McAlley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 19 Nov 2016 8:20 a.m., "Tobin Chodos" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> this is a general question for composers using lilypond.  at what point in
>>> your process do you generally start engraving?  Like most composers coming
>>> from the consumer notation softwares, I'm accustomed to working in pencil
>>> first, but not to completely separating the engraving and composition tasks.
>>> Curious about composer perspectives about this with lilypond.  are there
>>> strategies for working with a lilypond file while still composing?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Tobin
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>>
>> Like the others, I prefer to keep composing and typesetting separate.
>> Composing is (or should be) too difficult to be simultaneously wrestling
>> with any technology more complicated than a pencil (and maybe a piano).
>> Occasionally like Trevor i will print out a cantus firmus with blank staves,
>> mainly because of thinks are in canon, cf mistakes are difficult to fix!
>>
>> Listening to MIDI is essential for proofing. So many scores on the internet
>> have errors that one listen-through would pick up. I have a script that
>> finds consecutives. But in the end, once I have found the errors, I'll fix
>> them on paper, partly because it can be done away from the computer.
>>
>> Vaughan
>>
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