Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 2002/01
From: "John Butler" <bandtech@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music notation software and transposition
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:07:12 -0500
If you're looking for something to do just simple things you can get Finale
Notepad for free. You can download it from the Coda website for free:
www..codamusic.com
John
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From: Jim Reed [mailto:jpreed@-----.net]
Subject: [kl] Music notation software and transposition
I'm looking for something I can afford, to help me tranpose music, if
I'm not oversimplifying what I think music software can do for me. A
cursory search of Sneezy's files doesn't lead me where I think I want to
go. And, I'm willing to conceed I might not have searched properly.
I've played a Bb clarinet for a little more than 3 years, not learning
rigorously due to other priorities such as a new marriage, returning to
graduate school, etc. Recently, I joined a local New Horizons Band for
senior citizens (one of 60 nationwide is what I'm told) and have taken
up Eb and Bb saxes due to their shortage of saxophonists and an
off-setting surplus of clarinetists. My wife started playing piano a
little more than a year ago and we're both functioning around, as best I
understand it, Level 1 or 2 music and trying to play simple pieces
together for our own pleasure. With that as background, we've got a
mixture of piano, clarinet, and sax music I'd like to be able to
transpose for all 3 instruments, if possible - not knowing whether it is
or not makes this easy to ask.
While I read software descriptions which talk about transposition and
then I look at price differences between professional applications and
shareware, I still don't have a clear idea on where to start. Would I
be best off trying to use Lime, MusicTime, NoteWorthy or something
similar which I can afford? Or, do I need to give up this idea until I
can considering affording something like Finale or Sibelius? Or, am I
liable to get in over my amateur head with trying to transpose music for
C, Bb, and Eb instruments?
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