Score (Software)

Score ( not to be confused with Perfect Score ) is a by Leland Smith, a professor of music at Stanford University, developed since 1967, PostScript -based music notation program. The current version 4 is still a DOS program, which leads to increasing Kompatibiltätsproblemen with newer hardware and software, and new users can easily scare due to the rather intuitive user interface. Nevertheless score could hold a solid user base mainly professional users. These three things have helped:

• All parameters of elements in score files are directly accessible and can be changed freely. The score makes very flexible.
• Score does not perform any automatic functions (eg formatting ) without the user having to gives an explicit command. This includes the alignment of the notes that must be done by a manual command after entering the notes. What initially looks complicated, has the following advantages: The user has a priori maximum impact on the score, that hz as that already can be determined at the input, as the music is to be split on the side. An automatic layouting the music entered by the program does not take place first.
• The user can always see exactly what changes the program makes to the data when it calls an automatic function.
• Also constellations of musical objects that contradict the basic notation rules can be created, edited and printed with the program. Higher functions that require a musically correct structure, such as the alignment function of the notes can then remain inactive.

Users of versions 3 and 4 can upgrade since January 1, 2009 a beta version for Windows (5.0 version).