Note by note
I was asked by a good friend the other day whether, when keying in the notes of a twenty-page song to a Finale file (« Leichenfantasie »), it wouldn’t be quicker to hook up my computer to the (hideous) synthesizer upstairs via a midi programme and play the damn thing. Apparently it’s much quicker, although you need to be on the alert for enharmonic shenanigans, to say nothing of having to re-write polyphonic passages. But speed ain’t of the essence: I like to to get down on