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Author:  David Luebbert Posted:  1/1/06; 11:58:48 PM Msg#:  4643 (top msg in thread) Prev/Next:  4642/4644 Reads:  5416

Happy New Year, folks!

The new Workscore Composer is waiting for you to use.

By my count, 41 folks have tried the Workscore Composer since I started to work on it in early November. I'd guess a number of those folks ended up a little mystified by it. A lot of the features were incomplete and undocumented back then. It's fully operational and documented now. 

I think it's useful. I've created a lot of new music with it pretty easily. I believe I can teach others to use it productively. I'd love to know what you think.

You access it via the Worksore Composer link that appears at the top of most SongTrellis pages. It works best if you have entered at least one chord into your workscore. Here's the explanation that details how it works.

You can use Workscore Chord Entry to get your chord or chords if you have an already composed chord sequence written in sheet music or tablature. You enter the chords in a progression by specifying the chord's root, type and duration. The website will voice the chord for you.

You can use Chord Entry By Grid if you want to invent your own chord progression.

You can use the SongTrellis Excerpt Service to copy a piece of a chord progression from other music stored on SongTrellis. If you've been using the Excerpt Service, you'll see that there is a new Add Excerpt Chords
button at the bottom of each request page.

I believe SongTrellis is the first website on the web that allows you to prepare a MIDI sequence and its accompanying score using only the facilities that come stock with a web browser.

Even better, I think musical neophytes will be able to use the Workscore Composer.

If you know a site that provides this kind of facility, please send me their URL so I can link to them and check out what they are doing. Everything I find in my web searches requires that the user download a new music editing  application to their computer so they can create their scores.

I will be making that same kind of offer to Macintosh users for downloadable software when I start offering the SongTrellis Music Editor For Macintosh for public beta test in a few days. It's cool, though,  to be able lash up a copy of the editor to SongTrellis website server software so that I have something to offer to Windows, Linux and Unix users.  

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