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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Any good music scoring pgms?
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Date: 22 May 91 23:39:36 GMT
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Mail didn't work, so I'm posting.

The only good professional scoring program I know of is Finale.
It's somewhat clumsy and annoying, but very versatile and produces
first-rate output for very complex music. It also has nice features
for inputting data from MIDI -- very handy.

There are also some non-midi programs which are straight graphics
and know little about what music is supposed to look like.
They are hard to use but some apparently do an acceptable job at
creating publishable music.


-- Russell
owen@astro.washington.edu