'A viable alternative to using SIbelius?'

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A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Bob Morabito, 16 May 02:20PM
     Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Peter Roos, 16 May 03:22PM
         Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Patrick O'Keefe, 16 May 10:29PM
             Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Kai Struck, 16 May 11:18PM
                 Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Adrian Drover, 17 May 06:10AM
                     Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Laurence Payne, 17 May 10:19AM
                         Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Adrian Drover, 17 May 12:10PM
                             Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Tony Wakefield, 17 May 06:05PM

A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Bob Morabito - 16 May 02:20PM
And it has no subscription plan....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctqHxzkNYI

Thanks Bob

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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Peter Roos - 16 May 03:22PM
Bob, check out the next video in this youtube series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqZs6xv0DI

1984 video about an Australian engraver ("one of the few people in the world who still do this" - back then at least). Awesome!!

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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Patrick O'Keefe - 16 May 10:29PM
Neither of those videos mentioned it, but both of those two very different systems use the same type of playback engine. It's admittedly off-board, and it can be a bit unwieldy (and very expensive) for large scores, but it produces very realistic sound.

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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Kai Struck - 16 May 11:18PM
What are you all talking about this old technology. Today we have multitouch tablets to work with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2k1Y2GzXDU
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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Adrian Drover - 17 May 06:10AM
Luv it, Patrick! Thanx for brightening up the start of my day.
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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Laurence Payne - 17 May 10:19AM
The amazing thing is how we, as students all those years ago, could afford to buy music produced in this way.
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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Adrian Drover - 17 May 12:10PM
When I started playing professionally, you could by a Jimmy Lally dance band chart for 3/6d (17½ UK pence in new money). They were cheap because the publisher collected royalties every time they were played. I used to buy them just to discover Jimmy's secret formula. 3 part harmony for alto 1, alto 2 & tenor 1. Tenor 2 got the spare notes and bari doubled alto 1 an octave lower. Same deal for 5 brass (3 trumpets & 2 trombones), trumpet 3 got all the spare notes.
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Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius?
Posted by Tony Wakefield - 17 May 06:05PM (edited 17 May 06:06PM)
Cecil Bolton used to do those kind of charts for FD&H. That era had pretty much ended when I went to EMI, but he was still there doing nothing much when I was made redundant, and he gave me lots of free-lance work which kept me going for the initial couple of years. I think he will have passed on now - God bless him. Jim Duddridge, rip, (knew Jim from army days in Aldershot) based at Charlotte St also helped me with a small amount of arr, adapting, copying for the BBC light orchs when they had some. Five went to the wall with the Thatcher magic wand. The days at EMI then became vacant in the arr dept. Leon Young retired; the head, Gordon Rees remained and all but one of the original 5 were let go. I prepared by making books of top line/chords for myself for when the chop came, and sleeping furtively in the afternoon, after taking a 7 night a week piano job at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green. That was 7.30 till 1.00am whilst still doing 8 hours at EMI for five days a week. It put me on my back for 2 weeks after 2 years - stupid moi.
Well all the `Jimmy Lallys` and all the rest of the music library went a similar way after the dept was finally closed. They were all incinerated!
I keep in touch with the last occupant who went to live in France shortly after his demise. I keep in touch with him from time to time. His father used to play alto sax in the Frederico (Fred) Elizande dance orchestra at the Savoy, until the band started to play American style arr, then the band had their contract terminated . . . .

A bit of London`s popular music history died, to metamorphose ever more into London`s pop music industry. I managed to salvage a few of Leon`s scores which I`ve put up on the `scoreexchange` website, with best wishes from Leon`s son, Malcolm.
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A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Bob Morabito, 16 May 02:20PM
     Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Peter Roos, 16 May 03:22PM
         Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Patrick O'Keefe, 16 May 10:29PM
             Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Kai Struck, 16 May 11:18PM
                 Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Adrian Drover, 17 May 06:10AM
                     Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Laurence Payne, 17 May 10:19AM
                         Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Adrian Drover, 17 May 12:10PM
                             Re: A viable alternative to using SIbelius? - Tony Wakefield, 17 May 06:05PM