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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Seeking music program which prints scores.
Message-ID: <38260003@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:51:19 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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I need music software which can display music in standard music
notation.

I have sheet music that I am trying to learn to sing.  I am not good
enough at reading music to get it right.  So I want my Amiga to play
it for me.  But I need it to produce the score sheet so that I can
check it against the original to be sure I entered it correctly.

I am strictly amateur.  I perform in community theater productions of
musicals once or twice per year.  So I am not willing to invest large
sums of money.  I contacted the local (within 50 miles) Amiga software
outlets (both of them).  Four titles came up.

Dr. T:	Probably can do the job.  Would cost me around $500.00
	including the required(?) MIDI device.

MusicX:	I played with it in the store.  It does not seem to be capable
	of displaying music scores.

Bars&Pipes:  The salesman doesn't think it can display music scores.

DMCS:	I haven't seen this yet.  The salesman thinks it will work.
	But it has been backordered for weeks.

I am willing to fork out up to $150.  Amiga's built in audio is good
enough for my needs.  But rehearsals have already started.  I need it
now.  Please help.  Will DMCS do the job?  Will some other package do
it?  PD would be find.  For instance I know that TeX has one or more
packages capable of typesetting sheet music.  Is there a program which
will take one of these TeX sources and play the music?  I already have
TeX.
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