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It probably didn't matter to you that the score was far from perfectly notated, as you weren't handing out parts, because you didn't have the musicians to play them.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

Indeed. I started off in Act 1 properly notating and cleaning up, then realised (a) not producing sheet music (singers all had their vocal score copies too) and especially (B) I really, really needed to be able to see where phrasing, staccato, attacks needed modification. i find it easier to do (b) using notation, which I can read fast and without conscious thought, rather than the piano-roll which isn't "hardwired" in my brain!

So in the developing a useable performance as distinct from a readable score, I had to go back into the first 30minutes of music, wipe out all that lovely clean notation and make it go back to a forest of hemidemisemiquavers and their rests Fortunately that's a fast and simple thing to do in Composer also!

(All this is a loooong way beyond most packages' limited "quantize" commands. BTW, the Director was staggered at how easy it was to very tempos using the graphical tools.)

However, to demonstrate that I can be neat if required, here is a CLEAN notation version of the last 42 bars of my arrangement, which can be compared with the file uploaded in the previous post. I did it as an exercise after reading your post: time to clean up, 2 minutes flat. I admit I haven't put in expression or other player directions, but if I were handing out to a band, these are likely to be pencilled in and changed to fit the singers (who change also!). Performance is the same as before, only the notaiton has changed. Hear it on the SOundclick.com URL below
<center><table border=1><tr><td>Gondoliers finale in clean notation
o212ex2.not (153.7 k)</td></tr></table></center>
Tim Fatchen
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