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As a composer and an arts administrator, I work by hand on both musical scores and countless documents at the office. Over the years, I have come to rely on certain pens.
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I have tried out Finale’s part-making capabilities in version 25, and used linked parts for the first time. Here are my notes.
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I have finished engraving the score to my latest orchestral work. I will be scanning and re-scanning it for a while, but for now the score is done.
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As noted in my last post about this, my current work centers around engraving the score of an orchestral work composed in Finale version 25.
So far I have 6 pages engraved, with 3 more pages of music and 2 more pages of cover/title information (the cover and inside cover will be made in Microsoft Word).
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I wanted to provide this score so we can evaluate the areas that need engraving. Here is a laundry list of things that need to be changed. You can go through the score and see how chaotic things are pre-engraving, and how much work needs to be done to make the music playable.
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I write a lot about technology here. But there is no technology more important to a composer than paper. Whether one uses pen or pencil, the use of paper is integral to one’s development as a beginning composer and as an advanced one.
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My latest exploration of Dorico, a deeper look and learning of Write mode, is complete. My work “Variations on Hartford (3 Preludes for Piano)” is finished.
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