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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:10 am
by Trabanco
You are right. It is a very expensive program. I am not planning to buy it and I don;t want to download it either. I think the program presents the score, reads it and plays the tune. The four famous songs that we are playing in St. Pat's have been modified by Bras and I beleive he wanted us to have the program so we could hear the songs with the changes. I don;t expect these changes to be major; maybe the rythm, and a few minor adjustments. In any case, I've been trying to contact Bras for the last week to ask him about these issues, but so far I haven't heard from him. I'll let you know as soon as I talk to him.
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:01 am
by Bob
Yes, Encore is a music authoring tool (quite good according to what I have read, but expensive indeed), and I have been unable to find it at an academic discount. However, I suspect that any program that can play MIDI files will meet the need, since Encore produces MIDI files. However, I am way out of my league in music software.
My father-in-law, who died just before I had a chance to meet him, would have loved encore, which would have allowed him to produce musical scores much faster than writing them by hand. According to Evelyn, he loved gadgets of any sort, and would have whole-heartedly adopted computer technology. There would have been a loss, however. His surviving scores have a visual beauty that no program can match. He was a free-lance composer and arranger and worked for the Authur Godfrey Show in the early 1950's.
http://www.journeyed.com offers good discounts on many programs to those of us with academic affiliations.