Olympia Musicwriter
Oof, as a composer and a software engineer this is painful -- but joyful at the same time -- to see.<p>Nowadays, I&#x27;m so used to my new workflow of writing a script that checks my music, creates a LilyPond file (as well as a .musicxml to work in MuseScore4), and generating a PDF using lilypond. There is just something so uniquely beautiful in old school sheet music -- we composers consider sheet music notation as its own art form. There are tons of strict rules that you need to follow (to make it readable to the musician) but there is also tons of creativity you can pour into your notation. It&#x27;s like programming a real human-being&#x27;s finger motions! Some contemporary composers (such as imho Unsuk Chin) contributed so much to the art of music notation, as well their contributions to the art of music. When I&#x27;m done with a composition, generate the PDF, print it, and hold it in my hands for the first time (many fixes to be still made on the first draft!) it&#x27;s the happiest moment. I can only imagine how hard and time-consuming it was to create draft after draft with this typewriter back in the day. I can only imagine someone working day and night transcribing every work of Bach on this typewriter. Must have taken many man-months maybe man-years! Us new generation of composers are so spoilt with the availability of insurmountable amount of software tooling around music.