Ten Music Notation Programs

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Engraving in Dorico, Encore, Finale, LilyPond,MuseScore, Music Press, Notion, Overture, Score and

Sibelius, of Vyssotsky’s Elegy arranged for classical guitar

Introduction

Since the advent of the personal computer and music notation programs for it, part of the criteriafor program choice has been the engraving quality each application offers: design of musicsymbols and allotment of spacing between them. Symbols and spacing serve, first, in the interestof legibility. Beyond that, notation benefits from good graphic design just as does prose orpoetry: the page which is more inviting to read can get a better reading.

Although interface and feature set are of course important in the choice of an engravingprogram, this comparison is offered for those especially interested in high quality publication,and illustrates what notation from each of several popular applications looks like. Although oneprogram’s output can be made to look much like another’s, some aspects of that are easier to do,and it’s interesting how the personality of the pages varies.

I mentioned this to Abraham Lee, a noted designer of music fonts, who replied:

I couldn’t agree more! It really is amazing to see how each application embeds itsown personality into the score’s appearance, beyond what is “correct” or not. Trulyfascinating, indeed!

Unsolicited comments on earlier editions of this document include:

Absolutely amazing! . . . Interesting! . . . This is certainly a worth while endeavor. . . a really great idea and I’m glad that someone is taking the time to do it theright way . . . I love seeing how each program handles music . . . I don't think I'veever seen a lineup of professionally engraved scores like this before. It's a greatidea. I must say, I find it very encouraging that there is still a large element ofpersonality to be found in every one of the engravings, despite the nature ofcomputers. Long may that continue! . . . Very interesting indeed to see the subtledifferences in the notation and how the eye perceives it for clarity . . . Nice work!. . . Thank you so much! . . . This is wonderful!

This iteration of the document that started life as Six Music Notation Programs, and later becameSeven, benefits from inclusion of the highly anticipated Dorico from Steinberg and the formerSibelius development team, and by restoration from Six of Encore, which is more widely used inEurope and especially South America, and Music Press, which under new auspices is againavailable. This second edition of Ten includes revisions of Dorico and Notion.

John Rethorstjrethorst@yahoo.comJuly 16, 2017

Acknowledgements

Program Engraver Engraver contact info Program web site

Dorico 1.1 Daniel Spreadbury steinberg.net steinberg.net

Encore 5.0 Richard Sayage savageclassical.com passportmusic.com

Finale 2014.5 Richard Lee/VSLMusic Services

info@vslmusic.comwww.vslmusic.com

finalemusic.com

LilyPond 2.19.36 Abraham Lee musictypefoundry.com

lilypond.org

Music Press 9.1 Richard White whitcopress.com mansfieldmusic.com

MuseScore 2.0.2 Nicolas Froment musescore.com/user/5 musescore.com

Notion 6.2.439 Nikola Viel nikola.viel@gmail.com

presonus.com

Overture 5.0 John Rethorst jrethorst@yahoo.com sonicscores.com

Score 4.0 Matanya Ophee editionsorphee.com scoremus.com

Sibelius 8.2 William Holab billholabmusic.com avid.com/sibelius

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