Author: beejay
Date: 2013-02-15 14:23
I tried Sibelius First. It is good, and has a glitzy interface. But it not nearly so competent as MuseScore (free), As an example, I play basset horn and can score that easily in MuseScore, but not at all in Sibelius First. I did a composition course last year and had to use Sibelius Student, which was very limited. I looked at several of the alternatives, including full Sibelius, which I thought was too expensive and much too grandiose for my needs. In fact, I use Noteworthy Composer for virtually all my writing. It is extremely simple, and produces excellent scores. It allows you to compose your score on a strip, then format once you have finished to fit the score to the page, unlike most other programs, in which you have to fit your score into a template. Admittedly, Sibelius has this feature as an option, too, but at a price. Sibelius costs $500 and Noteworthy about $50. There are many good examples of scores using Noteworthy on their online Scriptorium website, and there is a free reader.
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