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Re: Beethoven in the Bin

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-12-05 15:16

Hi Nelson,

I know about two situations that might be useful for this. I will explain in case it helps.

A friend of mine recently died and he was a tenor singing coach, with many chests of drawers full of printed music. His music is being shipped to one of his students to keep. The student also teaches tenor singing.

Also, the other situation: I used to volunteer as the desktop publishing person for a community orchestra, a bit like the one you describe. In that orchestra, the conductor transcribed the works of the orchestra into sibelius. He then adjusted them for the specific players that we had at any given time. The actual old printed copies were not needed any more, although, for all I know, he may have had full scores in his house.

Here is how that worked, in case it helps:

- Conductor arranges music in Sibelius. (He had special skills at this stuff - it must have been very time-consuming I think.)
- other conductor checked the music and got all the details tidied up, including making sure there were no page turns in quite sections.
- Files sent to me by Wednesday for processing
- I checked the headings and page numbers and serial numbers for the arrangments.
- I used scripts that I had written in Manuscript language, which is the scripting language in Sibelius, to batch process the files into pdfs, for all the different sections.
- I uploaded them to GitHub, which is a version control server on the internet. This is where the scripts were actually stored long term, so we needed no physical storage space, but still had years worth of scores available when needed.
- Some other scripts written by our drummer caused the files then to be imported into our orchestra website so the players could download and print them.
- I sent the email newsletter to the players with the links
- They printed their parts and brought them on the Sunday night.

In the few weeks before a concert we would get a few extra people coming in and I used to also send out complete sets for individual players (e.g. complete set of basson parts). This was very quick to do, because I had named the files so that I could filter them out and compile them into single files with Acrobat.

Some players brought their music on a kindle or tablet, but it was mostly paper.

I really loved that job. It was great.

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