[K12OSN] FOSS music notation and editing software
"Terrell Prudé Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Wed Sep 12 22:32:49 UTC 2007
Sonja,
As a systems engineer in a school system, I can only give you this
advice for this automaton masquerading as a teacher:
At some point, you've got to be willing to tell this imbecile "no,
sorry, it's not supported by our student systems." If this teacher
wants this "Finale", then let *her* purchase the Windows or Mac
computers on which to run it...out of *her* *personal* wallet...if she
deems it so "essential" to education. You'll see then just how
important that one piece of software becomes to her so-called
educational mission.
Maybe some of you think this is harsh, but sometimes you simply have to
do that. You must say no, sometimes.
--TP
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Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> hi
>
> On 9/12/07, *Sonja Gonzalez* <sgonzalez at sau83.org
> <mailto:sgonzalez at sau83.org>> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was incomplete (I don't know much about this software.)
> The free version is Finale Notepad, and that's what she wants.
>
>
> Just a few minutes ago, I gave our music teacher a free computer with
> Edubuntu Linux, running Rosegarden, NoteEdit, GNU Denomo, and GNU
> Solfege. She is going to take the computer home and experiment with
> it. She originally asked the school to spend money on a proprietary
> license that would have cost $80 for 14 seats, or nearly $1, 000.00.
> Now she has decided that money would be better spent on instruments,
> and she is going to try to run those open source software music
> programs across our Edubuntu thin client network.
>
> Sonja, maybe you would be interested in contacting one of these
> organizations to find out about receiving free computers for your
> school. There might even be a program like this near you in Fremont, NH.
>
> http://www.freegeek.org/
>
> http://www.accrc.org
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
> <http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint>
>
> _______________________________
> Sonja Gonzalez
> Director of Technology
> Ellis School
> 432 Main Street
> Fremont, NH 03044
> 603.895.2511 x603
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Litwiller" <tim at litwiller.net <mailto:tim at litwiller.net>>
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com <mailto:k12osn at redhat.com>>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:42:37 PM (GMT-0500)
> America/New_York
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] FOSS music notation and editing software
>
> Where do you find the student version free? I just called our
> supplier
> and they say it is $350 per copy for the student version and $600 each
> for the regular version.
>
> Sonja Gonzalez wrote:
> > The student version of Finale actually is free, and that's all
> she needs. She doesn't need the features of the "paid for" version.
> >
> > _______________________________
> > Sonja Gonzalez
> > Director of Technology
> > Ellis School
> > 432 Main Street
> > Fremont, NH 03044
> > 603.895.2511 x603
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rob Owens" < rowens at bio-chemvalve.com
> <mailto:rowens at bio-chemvalve.com>>
> > To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com <mailto:k12osn at redhat.com>>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:56:17 PM (GMT-0500)
> America/New_York
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] FOSS music notation and editing software
> >
> > My advice would be to calculate the cost of all the Finale
> licenses, and
> > then ask the music teacher if she would rather use free software
> and
> > spend the money on musical instruments or some other physical items.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > Sonja Gonzalez wrote:
> >
> >> This is a great thread... thanks for all of the ideas! However,
> my music teacher *really* wants Finale. Has anyone tried using
> wine to enable Finale on Linux?
> >>
> >> Thanks--
> >>
> >> _______________________________
> >> Sonja Gonzalez
> >> Director of Technology
> >> Ellis School
> >> 432 Main Street
> >> Fremont, NH 03044
> >> 603.895.2511 x603
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Martin Woolley" <sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk
> <mailto:sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk>>
> >> To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com <mailto:k12osn at redhat.com>>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:29:16 AM (GMT-0500)
> America/New_York
> >> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] FOSS music notation and editing software
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:47, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Our public middle school has just hired a music teacher for
> the very first
> >>> time. The teacher would like to use computers to do music
> notation and
> >>> editing. We are going to be running this software over an
> LTSP thin client
> >>> network. She wants to "teach students to read treble and bass
> clef music
> >>> notation and to understand simple rhythmic patterns. She
> would like
> >>> quizzes and tests and self correction.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> We briefly deployed Rosegarden with excellent results. When the
> new head of
> >> music started, he insisted that Apple MACs and Garageband was
> the only
> >> solution; the ususal case of not daring to step outside
> familiar territory.
> >>
> >> MuseScore has an excellent review in the latest issue of Linux
> Format. It's
> >> KDE based which would be an advantage at our school.
>
>
>
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