New member
Posted: 23 Apr 2025, 19:16
Hello,
I just joined today, though I’ve browsed this site for some time. I’ve been engraving music for about a decade now, and have been working for a local publishing house for the pipe organ as an in-house engraver (using SCORE) for three years.
I have Asperger’s and have trouble reading certain social cues, especially in person, but may happen in writing as well - I tend to tale things literally.
I transcribe (audio to sheet music, a.k.a. “takedown”) film scores (sometimes game music but mostly film scores, whatever strikes my fancy) as a serious hobby (film scores are some of the best music ever composed IMHO), using Transcribe by Seventh String software. One time, I was listening to Colors of the Wind, following along with the handwritten manuscript, and noticed it didn’t sound quite the same to me. So I began transcribing it several years ago and found (IMO) that it was completely rewritten, with extra parts created from scratch. The casual listener doesn’t notice because it was mixed and mastered so well - each section of the orchestra was recorded separately, as stems, then mixed together (I’ve been talking with a retired session player who played on Pocahontas about this).
Anyway, I’d been arguing about the song in various Facebook groups (Music Engraving Tips (MET), Orchestration Online, Is This Playable, and Harp Notation) and, long story short, got banned for life from all of them for arguing about what music is and isn’t on the song, how it was written, etc. I guess that shows how stubborn and argumentative I am.
I read the rules and will NEVER, ever post or link to any full scores here, but if I have questions about how to engrave something I guess it can’t hurt to post a small snippet.
I do miss MET, but this will have to do. Is this site on par with MET? Are polls done here for multiple choice questions? I’m a perfectionist, so being anal about the details of engraving is fine with me. I have Gould (Behind Bars), Powell, and the 1st edition of Ross. My publisher claims to use Gardner Read, but is picky about sticking to the original (“authoritative urtext editions”), so he does some strange things that no one else seems to do (he claims Gould does some “weird things” and doesn’t trust her or anyone on the internet).
I wish there was an app so I could be instantly notified about new information, like Facebook does (part of why I miss MET). Maybe it’s just my perception but this forum may not be as active or have as many members as MET.
Thanks. You can call me DBird, or Dylan, if you’d prefer.
I just joined today, though I’ve browsed this site for some time. I’ve been engraving music for about a decade now, and have been working for a local publishing house for the pipe organ as an in-house engraver (using SCORE) for three years.
I have Asperger’s and have trouble reading certain social cues, especially in person, but may happen in writing as well - I tend to tale things literally.
I transcribe (audio to sheet music, a.k.a. “takedown”) film scores (sometimes game music but mostly film scores, whatever strikes my fancy) as a serious hobby (film scores are some of the best music ever composed IMHO), using Transcribe by Seventh String software. One time, I was listening to Colors of the Wind, following along with the handwritten manuscript, and noticed it didn’t sound quite the same to me. So I began transcribing it several years ago and found (IMO) that it was completely rewritten, with extra parts created from scratch. The casual listener doesn’t notice because it was mixed and mastered so well - each section of the orchestra was recorded separately, as stems, then mixed together (I’ve been talking with a retired session player who played on Pocahontas about this).
Anyway, I’d been arguing about the song in various Facebook groups (Music Engraving Tips (MET), Orchestration Online, Is This Playable, and Harp Notation) and, long story short, got banned for life from all of them for arguing about what music is and isn’t on the song, how it was written, etc. I guess that shows how stubborn and argumentative I am.
I read the rules and will NEVER, ever post or link to any full scores here, but if I have questions about how to engrave something I guess it can’t hurt to post a small snippet.
I do miss MET, but this will have to do. Is this site on par with MET? Are polls done here for multiple choice questions? I’m a perfectionist, so being anal about the details of engraving is fine with me. I have Gould (Behind Bars), Powell, and the 1st edition of Ross. My publisher claims to use Gardner Read, but is picky about sticking to the original (“authoritative urtext editions”), so he does some strange things that no one else seems to do (he claims Gould does some “weird things” and doesn’t trust her or anyone on the internet).
I wish there was an app so I could be instantly notified about new information, like Facebook does (part of why I miss MET). Maybe it’s just my perception but this forum may not be as active or have as many members as MET.
Thanks. You can call me DBird, or Dylan, if you’d prefer.
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