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A friend and I are seriously considering writing a music scoring program
for X and UNIX. It seems a lot of people on comp.music would be
interested in such a program, judging from the questions asked about the
existence of one.

Until now, most people wishing to do scoring under UNIX have had to turn
to MusicTeX, which, though very powerful, is difficult to learn and
use. The only other option has been to turn to commercial programs,
which cost hundreds of dollars for even mediocre programs.

We believe the existence of a freely available scoring program would be
beneficial to composers and musicians everywhere. Such a program would
facilitate the exchange of compositions between collaborators on the
Internet, and make translation between differing score formats easier.

We'd like YOUR ideas on this project. In particular, if you could send
us a few ways in which you might use such a program, or how you might
find it useful, it would help us in our search for support. Also, if
there's anything you'd like to see done right in a scoring program, tell
us about it.

Also, we've done a little bit of research and believe that there's
currently no similar project underway, but if there is, please let us
know.

Thanks for any input. Please send replies to jsc@mit.edu.

Jin Choi
David Tuma