Here’s the score for Having Told the Hive the News. The piece will be premiered next week by the Huntsville Master Chorale directed by Patricia Ramirez-Hacker. I was invited to introduce the piece to the group in February and had such fun working with the singers. I can’t wait to hear how the work has developed. I will attend the concerts and participate in pre-concert discussions.
Huntsville Master Chorale presents
Spring is Bach
Friday May 2, 7:00pm
Faith Presbyterian Church
5003 Whitesburg Dr Huntsville AL
& Sunday May 4, 3:00pm
Monte Sano United Methodist Church
601 Monte Sano Blvd Huntsville AL
Holland, how were you able to extract only fragments of staves and reposition them? What software did you use?
Hi Justin,
I used LilyPond for the notation. It can output the score as a pdf, eps, png, etc. which I then rotated and arranged using Illustrator.
I haven’t heard of that before. I’m definitely looking into it. Thanks!
I highly recommend LilyPond: deep feature set, beautiful output, free and open-source. The steep learning curve is, of course, the biggest obstacle. Here’s a post about my first attempts with the program. Since then, Ben Lemon has put together these helpful video tutorials for beginners.