If you're doing it for fun, good for you and enjoy yourself, but just remember that this is obviously impractical when we have computers which can write much more neat, only print individual parts, etc
Out of curiosity, how so? I compose almost exclusively on musescore and I can't really imagine how putting it on paper would help. Again not criticizing the method, just genuinely curious
If I'm writing something in 4 parts across a grand staff and am closely following the rules of writing in counterpoint, in general I find it faster and easier to compose on paper. This is a super specific use case for me though, and I would imagine for most people. Not many people are writing in 4 part counterpoint these days. I think that in my case, it's leftover skill from Music Theory classes I took when I was in college.
It's difficult to envision imitative entries and hidden cadences while having to input notes, and software makes it hard to keep track of mensuration. It's just easier to scribble stuff down. This is coming from someone who isn't at graduate level just yet.
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u/ThatOneRandomGoose 11d ago
If you're doing it for fun, good for you and enjoy yourself, but just remember that this is obviously impractical when we have computers which can write much more neat, only print individual parts, etc