Talk:Music engraving

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I just found out that there is a redirect from music manuscript to music engraving. Is there any particular reason for this? Matthias Röder 09:57, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

From reading this article it seems to me that there is a confusing terminology at work here. Historically, the word "engraving" referred to drawig music on a metal plate for the purpose of reproducing it mechanically. It seems that nowadays "engraving" refers also to producing extremely neat copies of music on paper and on the computer. Are there any references for this usage? And more importantly, how should we deal with this situation? Any thoughts? Matthias Röder 13:53, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the term has changed meaning. If you want a reference for this, see for example the 'Music engraving' section of the Sibelius Reference manual (which I wrote). Ben Finn 22:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright?

It seems to me that music engraving could be considered copyright infringement. As I am not a legal expert, I wouldn't know this for sure, but it seems to me that if, for example, and piece of music is composed, with copyright, and someone hears this music and decides to engrave it in a music notating software such as Finale, this would violate copyright laws.

Just my 1/50th of a dollar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.224.166 (talk) 21:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)