Monday 18 December 2006

I've spent most of today proofreading the score of a chunk of Hamish MacCunn's opera Diarmid against a scan of the composer's MS. As a result my brain is now a bit fried. But Sibelius is very useful as for a task like this, as you can set it up to show all the notes in pretty colours according to the tonality, and once you've got over the fact that the score looks like a collection of boiled sweets, it's quite easy to spot the wrong notes. I'm not used to big orchestral scores with horns in F and D, and clarinets in A, but as it gradually comes together it's quite satisfying. Won't get to hear the results for a few months yet.