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SibDemo/Read?Me/Reviews/Times?3
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| Tape/disk: | Home » Personal collection » Acorn hard disk » apps » sibelius |
| Filename: | SibDemo/Read?Me/Reviews/Times?3 |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 04E7 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
The Times (London) 31 January 1996 (Excerpts from a much longer article) IS THEIR BYTE BETTER THAN BACH? Art and science are usually mutually exclusive polarities in British intellectual life. But just occasionally C P Snow's two cultures meet in a union so sweet that the pessimists are confounded. Sibelius 7 is one such union. In five years this extraordinary computer program has changed the music profession forever. It can notate, print and play a musical score faster than anything the world has ever seen. It may soon redefine the very nature of composition... Computer music programs were not unknown in 1990; in particular, the Americans had devised one called Finale and were marketing it assiduously. But the Finns had a secret weapon: speed... To see it in action is breathtaking. If, for instance, Wagner returned to Earth and wanted to add an extra bar near the beginning of The Ring, Sibelius 7 would take precisely one tenth of a second to re-format 100 orchestral parts covering four nights of music. Composers have been liberated from hours of drudgery on every orchestral score... Richard Morrison, Arts Editor [On the same day, even the world-famous Times leader column paid a tribute to Sibelius 7 - see 'Times 2' file���
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