Chris Brody

I hate every kids' show that feels like it just wants to be a shitty video game instead of a TV show (the other big one of those for my kids is Blaze and the Monster Machines)

Sadly yes, it's at least partly due to the execrable Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Both my kids love Mickey Mouse 😂 😭

You know what character I cannot imagine liking or giving a shit about in any way? Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse has no distinctive attributes of any kind. There is a void where a personality should be. The Mouse Without Qualities.

Roses are red
Tulips are bright

The idea of the software was that it was completely dumb—here's a bunch of musical symbols, put 'em wherever you want to—and therefore a good tool for making Schenker graphs. By contrast I have a million horrendous kludges for forcing Sibelius to do that stuff, which it extremely does not want to.

I had also said that I don't like the MuseScore interface, but I'll be charitable and assume that that's because I have 20 years w/ Sibelius and get confused when any program doesn't behave like Sibelius

(me playing Super Mario Bros.: "how do you even change clefs in this garbage app")

Caveats: (1) With enough knowhow and fussing you can presumably tweak the MuseScore defaults to the point where they look good; (2) MuseScore is improving by leaps and bounds; (3) the only one of these products that I've logged serious hours in is Sibelius so my impressions are only impressions

I just mean the visual appearance of the finished scores in MuseScore doesn't look as good as Dorico or even Sibelius. If you aren't using it to make scores for print publication or to distribute to other musicians, that may not be a factor for you at all!

(QTing to get out of Sarah's mentions)

I would always suggest starting with Sweet Anticipation by David Huron to understand the basics of what is known about music perception from the cognitive science and music theory side

I had a professor in grad school who was such a devotee of a long-discontinued notation software (NoteWriter from the early 90s) that he kept a vintage Mac in a closet exclusively to run it, since it was never ported to OS X.

WHAT

That's some genuine serial killer shit

They sound terrific! I'm really just talking about the visual aspect of the scores, not how the software interfaces with audio output.

Tbc MuseScore is incredible software, even setting aside that it's free and its competition is very expensive. Workflow-wise, I would probably like it more if I spent more time in it. I do think Dorico's output is nicer-looking all things considered, but it's an expensive few percent nicer.

I'm a locked-in Sibelius user of 20 years but would switch to Dorico fairly happily if I needed to. I can't muster the slightest affection for MuseScore either in output quality or workflow, but I do use it sometimes b/c my students need a free product and I need to be able to show them some stuff.

Ahhh, I see. MuseScore is definitely the default choice for non-fancy needs. Depending on what you do with it (8 parts maximum), you may want to look into the also-free Dorico SE, and then if you ever wanted to move to the paid version you would already know how to use it.

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Are you doing the Finale --> Dorico migration??

(this is a joke, USA was already leading 15-1 after 9 but they played one extra inning to get more reps in)

F/10 (i.e. final score in 10 innings): USA 15, SF 1

The USA team for the World Baseball Classic played a warmup exhibition against the SF Giants in spring training today. Top of the 10th must have really been something.

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"

I am very sympathetic to it! Probably depends on which class I just came from teaching.

I mean ... I'm not endorsing anything? ... but like, what are chords if not the quintessential (the only?) "objects" of music theory

I should really have just done this instead w/ @danielketter.com's profile pic

Unlikely I will be available on Thursday evening (concerts have this bad habit of being at kid bedtime) but if that changes I would love to say hi! Both this & the Friday event look so cool.

Incredible opportunity, read about it below in Chris's thread

Reasonable!

(He also asked me if we could go to the ointment store and get three more ointments, so idk man)