Hi all,
I’m teaching a musical theatre creation course at a college. I’ve been teaching
the course for about 4 years, but the philosophy recently changed from one
where I was a co-creator with the students (and hence did all of the engraving
for our collaborative songs) to a more traditional instructor-student setup
(where the students are now expected to generate their own scores).
The ~25 students in the class need to engrave their own music; but they’re
starving students/artists, and we aren’t going to ask them to buy licenses for
any engraving app. (Of course, if they already have something, or evolve to the
point they need to buy one, that would be up to them!)
Looking at the ecosystem of “free” music engraving applications (e.g.,
NoteFlight, MuseScore, Dorico SE), I realise that what is really lacking is a
web-accessible engraving application with a [Javascript?] GUI, capable of
generating reasonably simple but attractive scores of relatively limited
complexity (e.g., piano-vocal scores with chords) and supporting collaborative
editing over the network — think lilybin.com with a GUI. Especially given how
much education has moved — and will likely now remain — online, I see this gap
as a real opportunity to potentially promote Lilypond in education.
How difficult would it be to build a “Quick Note Entry” GUI that could work on
a served copy of Lilypond?
Thanks,
Kieren.
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Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: kieren@kierenmacmillan.info