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Re: Beethoven in the Bin

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2021-12-07 14:06
Attachment: MuseScore_comparison.jpg (616k)

This is a sad situation, but I really hope the printed parts can be saved. Can't you find a dozen orchestra members willing to store part of the collection each?

I certainly second the many comments above that the traditionally typeset parts tended to look much better, and are worth keeping on those grounds alone. I really don't understand why parts from Sibelius etc. look so terrible. You'd think they would have made a study of good traditional typesetting and want to emulate its positive features (just as Donald Knuth did when he created the TeX system for computer typesetting of mathematics). I don't use Sibelius, but I did the attached exeriment with MuseScore. This seems to share the standard problem, which is that its default output is so anaemic: the lines are all thin, and the noteheads are too small. In MuseScore, you can change this, but they don't make it easy: the places to make adjustments are buried, and you have to resort to some dirty tricks to persuade the system to do something it doesn't really want to do. But the 2nd half of the example shows you can get an effect more like traditional music printing, and I personally find it easier to read. How hard is it to make similar adjustments in Sibelius?

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