Group working on a Symphony
Hi everyone. I don't know if this has been mentioned, but I was wondering if there might be a group of people who would be willing to take a part of a large work and transcribe it into Musescore?
As per my other posts, I've just started on Parry's Fifth Symphony, and it's a large work, at least for one person.
If 30 people were willing to give a hand then that's just 26 bars each and we'd have it finished in no time.
I'd be quite willing to do a section of other people's works if I was so asked.
Parry's Fith Symphony has 773 bars, so if we split it 1 - 25, 26 - 50, 51 - 75, 76 - 100 etc, you get the idea.
I'm already on bar 13 so I can do up to 25 and beyond, maybe I could do 1 - 50?
The pocket score can be downloaded from...
https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/76/IMSLP168432-PMLP2998…
Anyone?
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I would be willing to do 25 - 30 bars, but I only have MS3 (PC is too old and slow for MS4). Presumably you’d set up a template for each movement?
I'm relatively new to MS4 but if there is a need, I could support as well.
I've just finished a transcription of a symphonic/ chorus work by Stenhammar, a Swedish composer. It has over 800 measures, more than 30 instruments and 2 choices so I know what's involved. It took me half a year but I did it in Lilypond so MS would be a new challenge. For the sake of interest, I've included a snapshot of the intermediate instrumental part.
It would be an advantage if you create a template or whatever is called in MS.
Also, the are no bar numbers in the score, only rehearsal marks. Do you expect each contributor to count the bars to his/her part? A little error prone to my experience. I've only briefly checked the score, but quite some instruments are combined in the score. Do you expect us to do the same or can we use single voices and you combine as needed when you compile the individual contributions? Maybe my comments are a little Lilypond biased but it's the way I work in LP.
Maybe the split at bar level is not optimal. I've understood that copy and paste, if that's your approach to compile the different contributions, does not copy keys, measure lengths, change in time signature, maybe not even dynamics etc. In another posting, https://musescore.org/en/node/356207, it is said that:
"First add the number of measures needed
add in the various time signatures vary the bar lengths and finally copy and paste the music for each of time signature passages."
In reply to I'm relatively new to MS4… by TomStrand
Thank you both for your replies. On further reflection, I think this will be far too much to do. I have now sourced a full copy of the Parry. While I'm told it's only a "fair" print, I'm sure we can scan it and put it on better paper to be used.
In reply to Thank you both for your… by shakey1961
Ok, i understand but it could have been a fun project. I'm transcribing quite a lot of music for "my" symphony orchestra (about 70 strings and 30 woodwind, brass, percussion etc) where I also take care of our music library. So far I've only used Lilypond because it's extremely stable and fairly straight forward. MS4 still appears to have some problems yet so for the time being, I play around a little with MS waiting for the next stable release.