Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2011/01

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music scanning and transcription software?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:11:25 -0500

Matt

I have done quite a bit of the same thing. Scanning and reading parts does
need one of the high end programmes, in my view. But if you are not a
professional musician, you may be able to afford it!!

I use Neurotron Photoscore, the pro version, together with Sibelius. It has
been getting better over the years and is certainly far quicker than hand
copying. It is pretty much 100% accurate for the notes, 90% for accidentals
and not all that accurate for clefs. So yes you do need to hand edit and
correct. Best results are often obtained with input direct from PDF (which
also needs a piece of freeware plugin for Windows systems), and free PDF
files of many public domain works, parts included, are on IMSLP.

You should also look at the Rosewood Editions website, which has quite a lot
of stuff for mixed wind/piano/strings.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: matthew dineen [mailto:mgnat45@-----.com]
Sent: 15 January 2011 04:55
To: Woodwind Klarinet
Subject: [kl] Music scanning and transcription software?

Hello, everyone.

I play with amateur groups that have piano cello and sometimes violin plus
me. There's not as much written for clarinet in chamber pieces in the 18th
and 19th Century as we all might like, and we might just like to play pieces
not originally written for our instrument. (Plus pieces written for the A
clarinet, not the B Flat, for those of us who only have the B Flat).

And there are pieces written for other instruments in more or less the same
range - viola, flute, oboe, basset horn, even violin, I think.

It would be great if there were transcriptions of these parts for clarinet
easily available, but they seem hard to come by.

I've read that to get around the problem many clarinetists have become adept
at transposing at sight concert pitch parts, or can easily transpose them in
writing. For me, an amateur, that's too labor-intensive and likely to result
in many errors.

I've heard that there are music softwares, SmartScore in particular, that
can be used to scan in the viola, flute etc. part, then export it to
Sibelius or Finale to transpose it with the click of a mouse to "our" B
flat.

I know this is the lazy musician's out, but I have a full-time job (not
music), and family. So, has anyone had experience, good or bad, with these
music scanning plus transposition softwares?

I know that "office" software for character recognition (OCR) is not yet
100%. How accurate is the music scanning and transposition software, and is
it yet worth the considerable investment?

Or does anyone have any other ideas for dealing with the situation?

Thank you so much, in advance,for your thoughts.

Matt Dineen (NYC)

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