From: meyer@uuisis.isis.org (Katherine Meyer)
Subject: re: Good Music Software wanted
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 02:02:32 GMT

August 26, 1992
Hi.  I tried to send this to you directly but for some reason it was bounced
back to me so I am posting to the list instead.  K.M.
Hope this gets through!!!
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To: stefan@delos.stgt.sub.org Subject: music programs 

Hi.  I don't know too much about finale since I have only seen it in use
once or twice.  However, I believe that it has been available for the Mac
for a long time and just recently came out for the PC.  I think it may also
be available for Windows.

I have tried some shareware music programs as well as another program,
SONGWRITE.  They were ok for basic music notation but not really useful for
any serious work.

For the past couple of years I have been using Passport's score.  It takes a
bit of time to learn but the results you get are well worth the effort of
learning to use the program.  The documentation that came with the program
originally was not too good, but they have improved their instructions a
great deal in the last upgrade.  I guess more people must be starting to buy
this package for use at home.  Hardwarewise I have never encountered any
problems.  When I first got score I was running it on a 4.8MHZ XT.  I have
since run it on a 386/25 and on a 486/20.  In addition, I have run it in
Windows 3.0 and 3.1 without any problems.  So  it seems that this is pretty
versatile software.  It also supports dotmatrix and laser printers and has a
variety of other utilities to create professional looking output.  Once you
have become familiar with how it runs it is very easy to use.  I was
apprehensive about getting SCORE at first because everyone kept telling me
it was hard to learn and hard to use.  

As far as I know, the music publishing house Schott uses SCORE to typeset
some of their publications.  Maybe someone in Germany will be able to
arrange a demo of SCORE for you before you make your decision.

Something else I forgot to mention is that you can define your own symbols
fairly easily, including the noteheads and other symbols needed to notate
Medieval and Renaissance music.

Good luck,

Katherine.

MEYER@UUISIS.ISIS.ORG

PS:  Is their anything available in Germany that would be the equivalent to
the North American access to the International mail service?  I would like
to use Internet to correspond with some of my Family in the Neumarkt area
but I haven't been able to help them track anything down from my end
(Canada).  Response in German is fine with me.  I wrote to you in English
because it goes faster.  Thanks.  K.M.
From: nunis@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Simon NUNIS)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:21:56 GMT
Subject: Yamaha Rack Mounts...advice needed
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server