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From: hen@bu-cs.UUCP (Bill Henneman)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Deluxe Music Construction Set
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 09:25:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 09:25:32 1986
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I've played around with DMCS for 3 months.  It is *much* better than
Hayden Music Works.  It gives the user a great deal of control over the
appearance of the printed score (you can specify how much white space to
leave above and below each individual staff).

Its scoring capabilities are sufficient for my needs (making study
versions of pieces, producing organ tablature from voice parts).  It
supports tenor and alto clef along with treble and bass, beaming, and
some ornamentation figures.

The only thing I can say against it is that it has strange error states.
At the risk of sounding paranoid, my experience has been that it is
biased against all German composers predating J. S. Bach: it especially
hates M. Praetorius.  I spent one entire weekend trying to get one of
his choral fantasias entered: on the sixth try, I saved after entering
every measure, and still had to reboot 4 times.

Hope this helps.
			Bill Henneman
			Boston U