That Little Waltz
/First, MuseScore, I have some suggestions.
In the spirit of Lichtenbergian STEAL FROM THE BEST, please implement the option of “Play from leftmost measure.” You know what I’m talking about.
When I bring up a dialog box that requires my input, that cursor should be up and ready to go in the input field.
Also, once I’ve put it my data, then ENTER ought to hit that SAVE/OK/whatever button to continue.
Also too, in Project Properties — for example — shouldn’t the TAB key go from field to field JUST LIKE IN EVERY OTHER APPLICATION ON THIS PLANET and not just toggle back and forth between FILE PATH and OKAY?
Okay, when last we left our whinging composer, he had bogged down with his restart of the Little Waltz formerly known as “Meditatively,” refusing even to post his ABORTIVE ATTEMPT because it was so gross that it would have produce derisive laughter among his readers rather than serve as a great lesson on how MAKING THE THING THAT IS NOT sometimes requires a great deal of banging one’s head on the desk.
Remember, too, that part of the problem is that not only is he trying to compose a new piece — for which he is absolutely not trained — he is trying to get MuseScore to make sense to his aging brain.
So here we are. Before we get to the public humiliation portion of this post, though, my frustrations with inputting music in MuseScore led me to export “Delicately” to an .musicxml file and import into Dorico 5, the other music program I had been considering, just to see if I might have somehow gotten better at its interface without having opened it in a month.
I never got that far, because playback was appallingly wooden, and as someone who mostly will never hear his works performed life, I have to have reasonably human-sounding playback.
So, Dorico out, MuseScore — for all its faults — is in.
Now. Here is what I’ve got. No, it’s not working, particularly around mm. 27–28, and the lead up to the recapitulation absolutely sucks. But it’s got some good bits in there, so I don’t mind you hearing this version of the ABORTIVE ATTEMPT.
Score [pdf]
Definitely nowhere near finished, but better than it was. Next? Probably refocus on the whole idea of “delicate,” because that middle section is definitely not delicate. Yo, MuseScore, any chance we can get playback styles, like in… you know.