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Re: A must-see for anybody on this list


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: A must-see for anybody on this list
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:36:51 +0100
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Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2013/2/14 Wim van Dommelen <address@hidden>:
>
>> I was a little upset when I read "they decided to disperse the
>> collection",
>> but it is true, I've contacted them and you can indeed buy a random plate,
>
> I seem to remember having heard that Henle now uses Sibelius.
> If that's true, well, further Sibelius-development is aborted, what
> does this mean for Henle's future?
> A chance for LilyPond ... ?

For commercial viability, LilyPond is lacking two mechanisms:

a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go
away by manual labor.  WYSIWYG systems offer that.  I think that
Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well.
b) a mechanism to make problem complexes go away by money.  Commercially
developed systems offer that.

Sibelius has thrown away mechanism b) by dismissing their development
team.  Its problems are there to stay, but you can fix up a lot of them
manually.

Without a), however, it is hard to maintain a distinguishing edge over
competition.  The question is how important that is.  Have we lost
distinguished book publishing houses with significant focus on classical
books due to public domain _texts_ being in a much easier malleable form
than public domain _scores_?  So-so.

They do a lot of publishing of _new_ texts.  But the market for new
_music_ is a bit shallow.  There is pop music published quite a bit, but
it does not really overly exercise LilyPond's strengths all that much.

And "modern classics" are not really in circulation to a degree where
large houses can live from them.

Current publishers are still living from "editions".  If we get reliable
optical music recognition (like OCR for classic _texts_) to LilyPond,
this market will be getting strained.

I am not sure how to pitch LilyPond in this environment.  But it can't
harm to further improve it.

-- 
David Kastrup




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