Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

[Chris Mear]

On 10 February 2013 21:43, Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 2013-02-10 um 21:18 schrieb address@hidden:
>
>> I assumed SCORE, too, but this would imply Sibelius if that was Henle we 
>> were looking at in the second video:
>>
>> http://www.sibeliusblog.com/meta/henles-music-engraving-video/
>>
>> Also, Sibelius keyboard input does bear a number of similarities with 
>> LilyPond input syntax.
>
> Ah, sorry, I didn’t know Sibelius had a text mode.
> I found references that implied Henle used SCORE (but can’t find them again).
>
> But I didn’t pay attention to some important details:
> - The video is from 1997.
> - The desktop is X/Motif (or similar), not Windows 3.1.
> - The operator uses MIDI keyboard input.
>
> So it’s probably MusicTeX or an early MusiXTeX.
> LilyPond wasn’t released before 1998.
>
> Ah, but Sibelius started 1986 on Acorn RISC OS, and released in 1993. The 
> last Sibelius version for Acorn was in 1998.
> We can’t see the computer in the video. The different screenshots of RISC OS 
> that I found don’t resemble that in the video, but are close enough that it 
> might be possible.
>
> Neither with MusiXTeX nor with Sibelius I could find a reference to MIDI 
> keyboard input.

Could it be Amadeus? It's difficult to find information on the web
about this program today, but here's an interview with someone who
used it, along with a screenshot and sample code:

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/linux-musician/barnes.html

Chris