Some Technical Guffe for Electronically Minded
Choristers
A resource page by ITFactotum
- John Craick, JohnCraick@gmail.com
last updated 18/1/2017
Work in progress. Much material to be added. Watch this space ...
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Overview
This page contains information about e-tablet music readers, music
reading, playing and notation software and gives links to two major
on-line collections of free electronic scores.
- E-Tablets for Music
- Software for Reading Music on E-Tablets
- Software for Playing Music
- Music Notation Software
- On-line score collections
- On-line learning & rehearsal resources
E-Tablets for Music
A few choristers are starting to use electronic tablets instead of
traditional printed scores and sheet music. This raises several issues.
- What document or image formats does your tablet or music reader
use ? Commonly, but not always, this is pdf.
- How and where do you obtain pdf files of the music you are
performing ?
- Can you get a version that is consistent with the paper copies
your
fellow performers are using ? When it comes to page numbers, bar
numbers & rehearsal figures, having multiple editions in a
performing group is a well known destroyer of hair follicles and needs
to be avoided if at all possible.
- When it comes to the reading software used in rehearsal
and performance, does allow all the tricks that choristers use when
working from a paper score ? Two obvious capabilities required are the
ability to quickly & simply mark up the score and to quickly move
around within the score. e.g. "Tenors starting 2 before figure B
please."
Software for Reading Music on E-tablets
Software for Playing Music
On-line Score Collections
On-line Learning & Rehearsal Resources
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