@slantedhall @typecon And now “The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition” with my bespoke #shapenote music #typeface coming off the presses. #fontinuse

Will be available in 2 weeks at the United Sacred Harp Musical Association Convention debut singing in Atlanta, GA, USA and The Revising The #SacredHarp Symposium the day before. 12–14 Sep 2025.

https://originalsacredharp.com/2025/08/27/in-press/
#typedesign #musicfont #musictypeface #musicengraving #bookdesign #bookprinting #fontdesign #fontlove #typedesignerlife

You can read my newest blog post on "Obies Using Lilypond" here:

https://obies-using-lilypond.com/posts/20241130_workflow/

#lilypond #music #engraving #musicengraving #vim

My workflow | Obies using Lilypond

Dear musician folks,

I'm currently willing to dedicate more time to my job in score engraving. I already have experience in the area for some years. So if you are in need of services such as manuscript transcription, orchestral reduction (as in vocal scores), choir reduction (as in SATB choirs in piano staves), transposed scores, individual parts, please get in touch. Or if you happens to know anyone that needs it, recommendations are most welcome.

If you are interested in my work, check out some of the scores I engraved below:

🔁 Boosts are appreciated 🔁

#music #musodon #sheetMusic #musicEngraving #lilypond #orchestra #piano #choir #contemporaryMusic
@contemporarymusic @composers @classicalmusic

Finale -> Dorico

This is a pretty helpful tutorial on adapting to Dorico for Finale users. It helped me out quite a bit.

Also, the host says they are currently working on an update so we will be able to use the arrow keys to input notes! :)

https://www.youtube.com/live/hJnUcea3K8Q

#Finale #Dorico #Dorico5 #MusicEngraving

Introduction to Dorico for Finale users | Discover Dorico

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Raise your hand if you're using #lilypond for your #musicEngraving. I want to be your friend!
End/beginning of an era. After 30 years of using #Finale, its demise is pushing me to try new things. #Dorico, here I come... (trying to ignore the work I'll need to do to ensure that 30 years of #scores remain accessible for possible editing after Finale's proprietary file format can no longer be opened by anything) #musicEngraving #composerLife
Had a meeting today to teach a budding engraver the basics of #Lilypond...we're taking over #MusicEngraving one convert at a time!

I'm having the odd experience of finally seeing the manuscript of a piece I engraved in #lilypond two years ago, but at that time I only had access to a Finale-ified score. It's remarkable (a) how beautiful the manuscript is (much more so than the original engraving!), and (b) how closely the handwritten one and the Lilypond one match. Each line/page break is identical through 7 of 8 pages, when they finally diverge by one (!) measure.

#MusicEngraving

Finally got #emacs and #lilypond collaborating!

#musicengraving

For the last 20 years or so, I have at least used #musicEngraving software. This isn’t so much faster for score entry, and it doesn’t especially look better: what it gains in crispness it loses in personality. But it makes extracting parts much easier and less error prone, and it facilitates editing. If I decide a certain phrase needs two more measures, I can just stick them in. In my fountain pen days that would have meant recopying everything.
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