Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2008/11

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:06:07 -0500

One big difference is the ability to scan scores into Finale even if it is a
bit hit and miss. In many ways I find NoteWorthy the easier to edit/input
but that may just be familiarity.

regards
Peter Gentry

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Gentry [mailto:peter.gentry@-----.uk]
Sent: 14 November 2008 09:52
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?

You can get a lot done with NoteWorthy Composer. It has greatly enhanced my
little group importing Midi and transposing for different instrumentation
and printing good quality scores.

It is VERY reasonably priced with a useable free version. It is also very
easy to learn.

regards
Peter Gentry

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Seely [mailto:oseely@-----.edu]
Sent: 13 November 2008 20:48
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Alternatives to bassoon for a quintet?

I use Finale.

Oliver

At 10:47 AM 11/13/2008, you wrote:
>Oliver--what software do you use?
>
>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu> wrote:
> >
> > No, that's right and cellists are wonderful people! 8-) If you
> have the music in some music notation format, with a couple of
> keystrokes you can transpose it for viola. That works pretty well,
> also. Bass clarinet ought to work pretty well also -- again with a
> couple of keystrokes.
> >
> > Music notation programs have changed my life from thinking that
> I'd live and die without ever having had the chance to play some of
> the world's great clarinet music. Now I do it every time I take
> out my clarinet. And an unexpected bonus was that once I began to
> play along with computer accompaniment, I couldn't stop, and I kept
> getting better and better. Somehow the live musicians began to
> appear here and there. When there was just one or two, like here
> at the university where there is a French hornist in our
> Anthropology department and a cellist in the library, we have all
> of those guys who live in my little box. They are available night
> and day, they never complain, they play exactly as I have commanded
> them --- and . . . wait for it . . . their price is right.
> >
> > The result is that I have begun to know a lot of live musicians
> which have led to many sessions ONLY with live musicians. That's
> where the power of music notation format REALLY comes into play
> because of the ease of transposing things.
> >
> > Finally, whereas I discover that playing along with the guys who
> live in my little box, I am the WORST player in the group, when I
> get together with live musicians, I'm the BEST. The irony of that
> offers me great amusement.
> >
> > Upward and onward!
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > At 09:23 AM 11/13/2008, you wrote:
> >>
> >> So, earlier this year, I formed a woodwind quintet, and invited an
> >> oboe player from a local community band to join me. I quickly, and
> >> easily found a good horn and flutist to round out the set, and even
> >> found a good college-aged bassoon player who played with us for a
> >> short time, but had to leave because he graduated, and his instrument
> >> belonged to the school. I guess he wasn't terribly interested in
> >> playing with us anyway. So, only joined us a few times.
> >>
> >> So we've been without a bassoon player ever since then. The horn
> >> player has a friend who plays cello, and I told her to ask her to join
> >> us. In my (somewhat naive) mind, a cello player should be able to
> >> read bassoon music without any problems, since both are in the same
> >> key, and both read bass clef.
> >>
> >> Can't a cello player read bassoon music without any difficulty? Am I
> >> wrong in thinking this?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Curtis Bennett
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
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