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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-02-22 21:54
I have just been thinking along these lines.
I have some 1500 pieces of Clarinet music indexed in a computerized database and filed in order of accession in 12 large and overflowing drawers. I recently added 597 more pieces as computer files. Those need to be printed to be of use, and I hate to throw away the hard copies.
I've been thinking of at least displaying the newest pieces on a computer screen, but have not found the right way to turn pages. There are a couple of services that will put page turns cued by a mouse click or pedal stomp), but there is a cost incurred.
It is no doubt time for electronic distribution AND use of music.
Bob Phillips
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Author: dansil
Date: 2011-02-23 05:47
I now have ALL my orchestra and klezmer sheet music on my iPad which is clipped into an X-Clip iPad holder which in turn attaches onto a microphone stand (without boom but via a short flexible gooseneck). I'm currently using an app called "Forscore" which displays all my music (scanned as PDF and loaded onto the iPad using iTunes Sharing) and also allows me to use a Bluetooth switch and double foot-pedal combo (AirTurn, Boss double pedal) to change pages back and forth wirelessly.
One advantage of this particular app is that you can do half-page turns - ie. if you're in the bottom half of the page just click the forward pedal and the top half of the next page appears above the bottom half of the page you currently reading from. This means that when you get to the end of the last line you then look up to the top of the screen and you're viewing the top half of the next page. You just keep playing without having to turn a page or have any time lag to upset the continuity of your playing. So you keep playing and just click the forward pedal to make the bottom half of the page appear.
This might sound confusing but it just allows you to keep playing with no anxiety about page turns whatsoever!
No more bulky and heavy music folders, easy access to every named file, easily readable. I won't do paper-based sheet music ever again (if I can help it!!!)
Cheers, Danny
a family doctor in Castlemaine, rural Victoria, Australia for the past 30+ years, also a plucked string musician (mandolin, classical guitar) for far too long before discovering the clarinet - what a missed opportunity!
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Author: kdk
Date: 2011-02-23 16:46
I don't think, realistically, that sites like IMSLP will put a serious dent in orchestras' use of printed music for performances. 8-1/2x11 printouts on either 20 lb or 32 lb paper are difficult to use in rehearsals and performances - reduced print size, difficult to turn pages, sometimes difficult to write on and erase from. Most players I know complain when they get Xeroxed music from orchestras.
What will kill the printed music business eventually is e-readers, tablet computers, I-pads, etc.... There are advantages to electronic formats that are only beginning to be exploited and the problems inherent in them will eventually be solved, the major ones being expense and the user's inability to make changes - corrections, performance reminders, etc. - in the part if the reader is working with non-editable formats like PDF. But formats and readers that solve the second problem have been available for a number of years at fairly high price points. The cost will come down as interest increases.
As this replacement of printed music with electronic readers develops, even newer, copyright-protected music will eventually need to be published electronically, raising a whole raft of new "intellectual rights" protection issues. My own opinion is that IMSLP will be a relatively peripheral part of this process and not a major influence.
Karl
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Author: noeasy
Date: 2011-02-23 17:11
Looks like another Mac PR.
Seriously, nothing can replace PAPER !
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2011-02-23 20:06
I love IMSLP and use it mostly for score study. I don't have time to travel to the state college's performing arts library to study scores...and I don't have the space to store scores.
Also, the publishers argument that we should purchase hard copies from them because they are diligent about updating editions and correcting mistakes, I call bull. For how many years were the Rose Studies from Carl Fischer just reprinted off of old plates...getting more smudged over the years to the point of being illegible. Thank god for the David Hite edition...finally I can read the notes!
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