Thursday, September 1, 2011

0 Re: [Piano_Files] Writing Sheet Music

 

I think SCORE is obsolete already .. We can use partita font type to get almost the same result .. Anyway, Lilypond is also a good freeware

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From: "Laurence Payne" <lp@laurencepayne.co.uk>
Sender: Piano_Files@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:45:41 +0100
To: <Piano_Files@yahoogroups.com>
ReplyTo: Piano_Files@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Piano_Files] Writing Sheet Music

 

There are several free programs if you use the Windows environment. If you prefer the command line I use a set of programs with abc text files (transcribing tunes into a text format) at its core. There is also a Windows program that wraps itself around those command line programs. Everything is free. The abc programs create postscript files, the postscript reader converts those to a pdf format and an abc2midi (abc to midi) program creates a midi file of your music so you can play along.

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I'd heard of abc, and your post motivated me to investigate.

It's hard to see why anyone would PREFER a command-line! Though professional engravers stuck with Score - despite its unhelpful interface - long after more pragmatic users had discovered Finale or Sibelius. Is this why you use abc - because it offers finer and more detailed control over layout than the other free programs?

I was disappointed that the only examples of finished output I could find were simple monophonic folk tunes. Is there anywhere I can look at some more complex work?

(If you're just anti-Windows, Musescore is available for Linux. Have you tried it?)

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