[LAU] Getting started editing and playing a score

[david]

On 10/05/2015 08:46 AM, Tim Goetze wrote:
> [Edgar Aichinger]
>> Oh and noone has mentioned Lilypond yet, or ABC - both being notation
>> "programming languages" as well, with existing GUI frontends of some
>> sort, Denemo for Lilypond and runabc, flabc and others for ABC.
>
> ABC is particularly dear to me.  Its use can become a bit arcane for
> specialised tasks but thanks to abcm2ps getting from zero to a basic
> score that's easy to read and edit is a breeze.

I'm too old-school. I can't imagine "writing music" by editing a text 
file anymore than I could return to "drawing pictures" by editing 
Postscript code (which I did at one time a long while ago).

Denemo's pretty good, I just find Rosegarden more comprehensive when it 
comes to making music.

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