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Score quality influences indeed several things, not only the performance of a piece: it influences on a quite subconscious level the first encounter of a musician with a work. It influences how fast, deep and willingly the musician will build up a personal link to the piece it influences how much a ...

Indeed, Michael Johnson's participation sounds promising. In the old forums, MM didn't notice or react to feature requests at all, so it's encouraging that such a dedicated forum exists and that Michael is active there on a regular basis. No one knows whether or which requested features will make th...

Hello, when playing in musical shows here in Germany, we usually get the sheet music from the US or UK publisher, which means that the music is written with 4 measures per staff. I vaguely remember that someone called that the "Broadway layout", maybe it was in one of the equally meaningfu...

I find it merely strange that many people obviously have confidence in a new product based on the single fact that it is new. The argument that other programs contain "20-year-old-code" seems to gain popularity. It seems obvious to me that Finale might be the target. Even if that is not th...

I don't know if this book has been translated into German. Indeed it has. When I studied at the Folkwang Musikhochschule at Essen, Germany, I took the course Notationskunde with Prof.Broszka where we worked a lot with the Apel book in german. There's a german edition dating from 1960, the preface c...