Creating great-looking musical scores
In my spare time, I enjoying singing in my two choirs Schola Cantorum of Oxford and Wadham College Chapel Choir. Because buying music for a whole choir is very expensive as even if each score is one or two pounds the cost gets multiplied by twenty or thirty, I often find myself singing free scores of out-of-copyright works, mainly from the Choral Public Domain Library. Although better than nothing, the quality is variable, in terms of the accuracy and typography. I have been aware of a program called Lilypond for a while, which outputs, typographically, very good scores so I thought I’d give it a go. Although a little difficult at first, I think the final result was pretty good. What do you think?
