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The musician in the 21st century and his iPad or smartphone (50-60 min)

Good morning, I would like to introduce myself through a short video, also meant as an introduction to the theme of this presentation. Well the photoscanning you just saw is, I have to admit, illegal according to

European and Dutch law and certainly not representive of every visit or customer of our library, which is a public library. But one can see it’s a growing practice in the Netherlands. I hope you will enjoy this presentation, and simultaniously I hope it will make you more aware of the existence of these musical tools, musical applications on mobile devices with a touchscreen, like iPad or Android smartphone and the impact of these tools on musical practice (even if you are already in some way or another familiar with this material). Most public libraries in the larger cities of the Netherlands still contain collections of sheet music for both amateur and professional musicians, music teachers and students. The introduction of the computer in the eighties, the internet in the nineties and only six years ago tablets and smartphones, have, as you might know, changed the perspective of a physical collection of sheet music in a public library in a sense, that the client, the musician of today

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now has access, more than before, to a broader range of tools to learn and to play a musical instrument or produce or reproduce a piece of audio or sheet music. The musician can find sheet music on the Internet, legally or illegally, of good or bad quality, young musicians are DJ’ing on electronic devices instead of playing a traditional musical instrument. And instead of borrowing exercise books from the library, they learn to play an instrument looking at Youtube instruction videos. . To sketch a more general picture of the presence in the Netherlands of mobile devices nation wide: The Netherlands counts 17 million inhabitants, from these 17 million, 8.6 million are tablet and 10.6 million are smartphone owners. Soon after the launch of the iPad, later on followed by Android tablets I became fascinated by the possibilities for musicians of the new technique, which was hidden behind the tablet, both from the perspective of being a librarian and of being a musician. As a music librarian I think it is essential to know your customers, in the sense of how they make music, what digital tools they use. And even more important to ask yourself the difficult question “What do these digital developments mean for the music library service, what answer can we as librarians give on these challenges.

That was one of the reasons why I started already 8 years ago supplementary to the services of the sheet music collection a blog on this topic, to give information about these digital developments to customers: on what the introduction of internet, tablets, apps meant for the way in which people play and learn to play musical instruments. This blog

now includes more than 400 articles and is visited approximately 8,000 times per month. [To give an impression some screenshots] First as a personal blog later on moved as a special blog to the website of the Rotterdam Public Library and much later also to the overarching national library website as a special theme ‘making music’ [Slide] together with Hanneke Kuiper of the Amsterdam public library as a collaboration between a few Dutch public libraries with large music collections.

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In this lecture I wil focus on most used, most specific, user friendly, applications for mobile devices, iPad,iPhone, Android, Windows tablets and smartphones supporting musical practice, musical performance and musical education. So you will not hear from me about applications that are designed primarily for music listeners , like Spotify, or Shazam (app that contains music recognition software). It’s still a market where from the standpoint of the developer,.. experiment, artificial intelligence and imagination are alive. Still I have the strong impression that the musician and the music teacher of today generally spoken don’t have or take much time to orientate themselves on the possibilities of digital musical tools. It’s a digital and therefore woldwide market, and the best and most versatile musical apps are to be found mostly in the iTunes app store for use in Apple mobile devices, like the iPad, iPhone, because of the hardware qualities and the quality and quantity of available apps. However, Android and Windows apps are gaining ground on the point of quality and improvement of the underlying hardware and operating system And in the future, I think, we will see desktop, laptop and touchscreen technology merging together more and more.

[Slide] When we talk about tablets and smartphones then we are talking about special features, which may be important or useful for musical functionality in applications.

What are these essential elements of tablets/mobile devices? The main feature is the presence of a Touchscreen (for controlling,

navigation) (main feature) Camera (for video recording,which acts as a sensor) Microphone (for audio recording, as a sensor) Speakers/headphone (for playing audio) Wireless connection through Internet (for sharing music, scores

etc) and Bluetooth

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Possibility of Data storage (scores, audio) high amounts of data on the internal harddrive or in the cloud

Connection to external instruments through connection points for plugs and cables

These are all characteristics that developers have used to construct interactive music apps.

[Slide] On this sheet, I have made a subdivision of what I thinks are the key areas for apps designed for musicians

Displaying sheet music: plaintext/graphical and interactive representation of music notation

Music Notation: producing and editing musical scores Education: that means: Musical theory, exercises, lessons, learning

to play an instrument, musical analysis Apps that contains: Digital Audio Stations, Sequenzers, Dj etc (as

controler also of external instruments, as generator of musical accompaniment, as a composer tool, etc)

Tablet as a musical instrument

I must add that these are not strictly divided areas. Many musical apps unite more of these aspects. As you will see, there are apps that for instance contain both score reading and teaching, feed back elements. [3 Slides]

Information on musical apps is widely spread on the internet. On Youtube you will find a lot of demonstrations and reviews. If you want to know more about the use of tablets at school for educational purposes I can recommend the websites of Paul Shimmons or Christopher John

Russell, called ‘ iPad and technology in music education’ and ‘technology in music education’.

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To tell you the truth, I couldn’t find speaking examples in Dutch music practise at schools. If any of you know examples of educational practices with tablets at schools in your country, let me know afterwards I wanted my presentation mainly focused on functions that have the most in common with the position of public libraries with collections of sheet music. Sheet music When we think of tablets in combination with ‘making music’in this perspective, then the first association is probably that of presenting musical notes, sheet music, lyrics, chord charts. [Slide]

One can distinguish two types of apps for displaying sheet music:

plaintext/graphical mostly PDF

apps with a more interactive multifunctional representation of music notation

These two types relate primarily to existing types of music notation, like mensural notation or chord charts. On the other hand the technique behind these touchscreens did inspire developers also to create new forms of music notation. I come back tot hat later. For a lot of musicians the transition from reading on paper to reading sheet music on a tablet is not an obvious one. It is interesting to find out what kinds of considerations prevent musicians and what stimulates them just to take that step. As far as I could find out, there have so far been no authoritative studies on the way musicians use tablets for musical practice.

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It is not known to what extent musicians use tablets for music learning, during rehearsals or concerts. Discussions on the Internet and experiences of musicians that I know show that digital still has not replaced paper to a large extent. But visiting concerts I see a increasing use of tabletstands by musicians. [Slide]

For this lecture I put out a small online survey among musicians, teachers and students from Rotterdam schools of music and the Rotterdam Phylharmonic Orchestra. I can’t say it is totally representative but it gives a mixed picture of ways of using or not using mobile devices. Unlike e-books wherein the step from physical to digital is mainly a matter of feeling or sentiment, in a sense of “I would rather smell the odor of paper”. The step to digital score reading is determined primarily by ease of use and functionality. And the decision to choose between tablet and paper depends often on the situation, whether you are dealing with a teaching situation, individual or in a class or a rehearsal, practice situation, or performance and wether the context is playing solo or within a large ensemble. Above all, is my impression, the fear of losing control, by either the technique letting you down or you hitting the wrong button, prevents many musicians from using tablets for score reading during performance. I’ve put some remarks, the pros and cons in a row according to the results of this small survey and opinions on the internet. [Slide]

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Paper:

• It always works • Light apiece • Heavy in a large collection, • In darkness needs a lamp to see the notes • Page turning makes sound • Easy to forget (digital sheet music one can store inthe cloud where

is is always accessible) • Lightfall is better in concert hall • Easier to make annotations

Tablet: respondants mention

• Only works with loaded battery • Heavy apiece • Light in collection, means: can contain a large amount of

documents • Screen too small to read, last year the iPad pro was launched with

a big 12 inch screen, expensive • For some people too difficult • Expensive as informationcarrier • Sharing of score and annotation, bowings easier (WIFI can be

problem) • Interactive: transpose, audioplayback • Page turning instead of paper makes no sound • Availabilty of digital orchestral scores and parts still a problem • Visible under dark conditions (on the other hand score not visible

outside when the sun shines) • Looking at the screen for a long time can be tiring for the eyes • More used during rehearsals than during performances • Tablets are felt as vulnerable • “Karaoke” possibilities • Page turning by footswitch • Better suited for outside than paper in case of windy situations • Less ink and paper better for the environment

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Page turning [Video] [Slide]

The apps that show music as graphic image are nothing more than pdf readers, that also exist for showing texts. More than is the case with standard text reading PDF files it is important to ensure that readability is good, because as a musician you are often standing further from the tablet depending on the kind of instrument you play than when you are

just reading a text. And secondly, a smooth and fast way of navigation is important in page turning. Pageturning, one can do in different ways depending on the kind of app by: [Slide]

1 By swiping or tapping [Swipe or tap] on the screen as you could see in the introduction video 2 Foot pedal

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3 a more sophisticated way automatically. In the app Calypso, going to the following pages is more in a way of scrolling than turning. Before reading and playing from the piece of sheet music you first have to set the tempo, you intend to play in. When you play, using a flashlight metronome and reach the end of the page the first staff of the next page will appear at the top, before displaying the full next page.

4 There are also apps that claim they hear you playing and automatically make a pageturn and finaly there are apps that give you a way of page turning, I don’t think is used often, 5 Physical gesture, namely by moving your head/smiling. In this case the internal camera is working as a sensor, detecting the expression of your face. [ 3 Slides ]

The most used app worldwide for reading sheet music, also according to the survey, showed to be Forscore for the iPad. And it’s the app I also used in my introduction video. Forscore is a reader only made for the iPad. Essentially it’s a pdf reader with extra

functionalities for the use of sheet music. Musicians like the user friendliness, fast page turning by tapping, possibillity to make annotations , create setlists, rearrange pages, add bookmarks in favour for instance to easily handle repetitions in the score, to connect the sheet music to an audio track, etc. For Android tablets there are apps like Orpheus to display pdf files of music

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Interactive sheet music: As example of the more interactive way of showing notated music I would like to mention the relatively recently published Henle Library app: [Slide]

Uitgevers: Henle Urtext Urtext score reader For Henle it wasn’t enough just to offer their Urtext editions in digital form for PDF readers. I would like to mention a few features, they developed :

In the score you can change the number and size of staves per screen, scalable layout;

you can for instance add or remove parts in for instance chamber music;

you can add your own notes to the musical text as you see fit(, using a specially developed annotation programme (pen and text field);

But that’s not all: For many repertoire works Henle added several further sets of new fingerings and bowings that can be added as layers to the Urtext. So when you buy the “Henle Library” app at launch, you’ll get the “bare bones” Urtext of a Beethoven Piano Sonata. Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas and then you can also choose to see markings by Igor Ozim, Midori Seiler and Christian Tetzlaff; then you can choose and switch between fingerings by Conrad Hansen, Murray Perahia or Eugen d’Albert; for the sheet music of Brahms Violin Sonatas you can layer fingerings and bowings by Leopold Auer, Igor Ozim or Ossip Schnirlin,

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Some features were the result of discussions with musicians. These include a two-finger tap on repeat signs that enable you to jump back to the beginning of the repeat

There’s a metronome available in the app, you can also record and listen to yourself. But that’s not all, you can listen to yourself playing the original tempo but you can also speed up or slow down the recording –the original pitch is preserved – and if you want, in a continuous loop.

Talking about artificial intelligence,… one of the visitors of my blog lately asked me: “Are there apps that hear where you are in the score and based on that automaticly turn the page for you?”

I showed Calypso that displays a new kind of page turning , based on the setting of your tempo in advance with a preview mode of the page that is coming next. [Slide]

Cadenza is as far as I can judge the most sophisticated page turning app. "As you begin playing your instrument, the app listens to each note you play and the rhythm and speed in which you play them, calculating and recalibrating a prediction model for when you will play the next note," the Cadenza site

explains.

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[Slide]

An internetshop like ‘Sheet music direct’ not only just sell digital sheet music but also supply a special app for reading sheet music with the possibilities of listening or transposing the song to the wanted key. [Slide]

Beloved by singers that rely on songtext and underlying chords is the app OnSong [Slide]

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For jazz improvisors the iReal Pro app provides many handy features . One can create, edit, transpose,print, share and collect chord charts of songs for reference while practicing or performing.

iReal Pro also simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice.

[Slide]

Last year when I visited a restaurant in Spain I was invited to play a jazz piece on the piano. I said I wanted to play the music of ‘Blue Bossa’ in C minor. The Spanish baseplayer strarted the app iRealbook on his iPhone and rapidly found the chord chart of this song out of hundreds of transposable, chord charts of jazz standards (afbeelding) and transposed it easely and fast to the wanted key

Interactive elements open the path to new both interactive and educational ways of notated music, as we can see in Apps like Choir Prodigy, Sonja and the app Cadenza I mentioned before. The best way to explain is by showing a short video demo, first we see a short demonstration of the Henle library app, I mentioned before [VIDEO] New score interactive One of the apps you will see next is Choir Prodigy. It is meant for supporting amateur singers in a choir. It declares itself coach, accompanist, assistant and repertoire. You sing along with the app, it listens and gives you instant feedback. You will see also a short demonstration of the app app Sonja, that offers an alternative, more intuitive feeling notation for singers who have trouble with traditional music notation. And finaly we’l see a short demonstration of Cadenza.

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And the last year there is also an increased attention for the partially sighted, visually impaired older musician in promoting the iPad for score reading, making the notes more legible by changing, resizing the score. For this purpose the apps Music Zoom and Seescore are very suitable. Making sheet music and Chord charts [Slide]

Music Notation apps are the next category I would like to explain. [Slide]

Besides showing sheet music, apps also offer the ability to create your own sheet music, to input notes not only manually or by making a photoscan as we can see in existing desktop music notation software, but also by recognition of handwriting or by audio input through

voice or a musical instrument The result is also sheet music that you can hear and is easy to edit. Apps like Symphony Pro, iWritemusic and Notion are well known examples of tradional music notation apps, where adding musical notes is based mainly on touching the musical symbols to be found on screen [Slide]

For the variety I would like to mention the music notation program StaffPad that is suited not for an iPad or Android tablet this time, but for a Windows based tablet, the Surface Pro 3, which features a big 12-inch screen. What’s special is the very secure sophisticated pen for the touch screen.

Utilizing this pen, the Surface Pro pen, you can write notes directly onto a virtualized traditional manuscript. The app then interprets your handwriting and transforms it into mensural notation. The app also supports musical playback as well as several kinds of export possibilities like MIDI, MP3, WAV and MusicXML export for previewing.

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Like staffpad, the app NotateMe and also Notion features handwritten music recognition for the iPad and Android based tablets by entering music notation with your finger or stylus, on a tablet or smartphone. The problem is with your finger or iPad stylus/pen, as I experienced: using your finger or traditional touchscreen pen is not very accurate, they are too rude for writing the notes on the screen easily and precisely. [Video] staffpad notation handwriting recognition There is a special plugin, Photoscore for Notateme, as I mentioned before known as a program for desktop use, that allows you to take a picture of printed sheet music, and turn it automatically into a computer notated interactive file. Creating chord charts or scores based on audio input we see in apps like Music memo’s (free) and Hum On! Best way to understand is to watch the videodemo [Video] Hum On Notationinteractive Audioinput Samsung Hun on! made by Samsung records hummed melodies, instantly transcribes them into musical notation, and then plays it back to you using your preferred arrangement style: R&B, classical or rock. I must say, this kind of apps does not always work well especially when more complex music is played [Slide]

The next area where we find musical apps is focused on musical education:

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There is a wide range of educational more or less interactive applications for individual lessons and for class situations. A well-known example of an online learning environment for learning to play an instrument where teachers and students are working together and exchange information is Smart Music

[Slide]

Student practice is focused because they receive immediate feedback while listening to their performance and seeing the correct and incorrect rhythms and pitches onscreen. It also allows the teacher to provide students with the individual

instruction and customized feedback needed to get better faster. Students are also able to hear their part in context with SmartMusic’s professional background accompaniment, giving them a pitch and rhythmic reference when practicing at home.

Many examples of more individual oriented educational apps one can find in the appstore,.. apps, that are meant for learning to sing or play a musical instrument often with instant automated feedback or corrections.

Most of these apps to my opinion can generaly speaking still never completely replace a trained professional who is able to sit beside you and give you direct and appropiate feedback on your singing or playing an instrument.

[Slide]

I will just mention one example, the app Ladida ( €2,49). In short it’s an app that completes and corrects your singing.

When you are singing and hit the wrong pitch, LaDiDa can automatically tune your voice to the correct notes and add vocal effects. Also works on melodic instruments such as

the guitar.

Some educational apps are presented as video games. What seems to be quite popular especially in the US, according to Paul Shimmons and Christopher John Russell who I mentioned earlier as experts in educational applications for schools, are two small applications:

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[Slide]

Staffwars which is designed for learning music note names.

And NinGenius Music which is an iPad app for learning music note names, band instrument fingerings, string instrument fingerings, and piano & guitar. The way you learn it, is in a platform videogame setting.

Let’s play one more short video:

[Video Education]

Till so far some examples of the more educational apps. I have to admitt, there is much more to explore, for instance apps for little children to explore sounds and musical instruments as we saw in the video in the app called Visuamusio.

Although not directly supporting musical practise, the app Beethoven 9th symphony edited by Touchpress is an example of a very special and much rewarded app for musical analysis and explanation.

What do we see when we open the app?

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[Slide] [VIDEO]

The main page allows users to choose renditions of the symphony from conductors Ferenc Fricsay, Herbert Von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein and John Eliot Gardiner, who each represent a different decade.

The so called BeatMap is a kind of visualization of the performances, that shows different sections of the orchestra pulse in time with the music. While listening to the music, users can read an in-depth analysis by critic David Owen Norris. Or there's two hours of video with insight from musicians, writers and conductors.

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After having explored the area of music reading, notation, education , musical analysis we now enter the world of the digital music studios for touchscreens. I took the liberty to include apps that represent controlling functions for external instruments, or are able to generate musical accompaniment automatically, or serve as a digital aid for composers. [DIASlide]

A popular app for musicians who want to record and edit music is GarageBand, a virtual music studio, not only designed for iPad but also for Mac desktops, very user friendly and therefore also suitable for educational purposes, for instance in a classroom to make rap and beats. Or as a teacher one can for instance

lead student songwriters through a studio recording experience as they record each part of their song onto separate tracks. Or one can let students explore popular styles by creating songs using a single category of built-in loops (i.e., Urban, Blues). Session band is an app, that automatically generates musical accompaniment on the basis of putting in chords and by determining the musical style. Let’s watch a demo:

Video garageband

[DIA: Slide]

One can also find more simple applications in the app and playstores. For example, if as a singer you want to let your piano or guitar accompanist know in what key you would like to sing, and you don’t you have the necessary knowledge of music theory, you can use the app Bandmate Chromatic Tuner.

Here the internal microphone functions as a kind of sensor. The

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unique element of this app is that it is a tuner that visually shows the pitch that is being played on the staff (with transposition in mind), unlike other tuners that show only the frequency, suitable for both voice or any kind of musical tuned instrument.

I think many conductors of an orchestra or choir nowadays do have a metronome app on their smartphone or even smartwatch. They work with audio clicks or lightsignals flashing the beat.

[Slide]

Musical instruments

Video real instruments

The next and last musical area of the musical touchscreen I would like to explain is covered by the tablet used as musical instrument, one type that simulates existing musical intruments from guitar to analogue synthesizers and another type delivering "musical instruments" specifically developed for the touchscreen.

[Slide]

The first with the exception of synthesizers may be used for educational purposes but is no match for real instruments. An exception is for

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instance the app iFretless Bass. iFretless Bass is a professional virtual instrument that provides bass and guitar players with an expressive fretless playing surface.

There is a wide range of this kind of apps available in the app store.The best thing I can do is show it by some video fragments

[VIDEO] New musical instruments

Soundprism

[Slide]

SoundPrism is one of those unique iPad instruments in that it feels a bit more abstract than a traditional instrument or sequencer. The app is designed to play notes that are in key with each other. Variations of those notes are just octave jumps along the keyboard. Though some musicians may like that it feels a bit less predictable than playing a regular keyboard,

and it can lead to interesting results and happy accidents.

[Slide]

I would like to end the list of musical areas by showing some accessories

[Slide]

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A wireless foot pedal for turning pages while reading sheet music, the right pedal for going forward and the left pedal for turning back

A docking station, de Alisis iO Dock for the iPad With all kind of connections to external devices, keyboards, amplifiers etc.

A music stand designed for mobile devices,

iRing motion controler is a wireless controler, uses hand gestures to control parameters of effects and other items in your music performances by simply moving your hands in front of your device suited for DJ's in live performances:

[Slide]

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Misulu C.24 a keyboard that can be connected to your iPad

Jamstik is a virtual guitar you can connect to Your iPad Well, I would like to end where I started this presentation, namely by expressing my intention not only to show you what kind of musical apps musicians have access to, but I hope I have also created some awareness of the possible impact of these developments on library services. Aside from informing customers about these developments as I have done for the past 7 years by blogging on this subject there might be other ways of expanding your service. I personally like the idea of creating a kind of ‘makerspace’, a part of the floor in the library, where costumers can experiment with these apps on tablets. Maybe we can find a way to brainstorm or exchange ideas about this afterwards. Thank you for your attention. You can contact me through email j.valk@bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl or twitter @johnvalknl I have made a list where you can find the apps I will deal with in this presentation and more. I presume you have received it. I cannot guarantee all apps are available in every country, for as far as I know editors of apps can determine in what country apps are available for purchase. In the list you will also see what apps are suitable for other operating systems like Android and Windows. The hyperlinks will lead you to the editors’ websites, from where you can download the apps on your device: \

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‘The musician in the 21st

century and his iPad or

smartphone’: List of discussed apps and more 5 July Tuesday, Museum of Musical Instruments, 9.00-9.40, Public Libraries Branch

Information about musical apps: Technology in music education

iPad and technology in music education

Displaying/reading sheetmusic:

ForScore (iOs) (€9,99) (multilanguage)

Music Reader (iOs) (Windows) ($0,99)

Ultimate guitar tabs (iOs) (Android) (€2,99)

Orpheus (Android) (€4,36)

MobileSheets Music reader (Android) (€4,50)

Onsong (iOs) (€19,99) digital chordcharts (multilanguage)

Music Zoom (iOs) enlarging the notes for the partially sighted, visually impaired

musician

Seescore (iOs) display the score in your way

Pageturning:

Calypso (iOs) (€11,99) put the tempo of the piece and the music will scroll to the next

page

Tonara (free) (iOs) the app hears when to turn the page (German, French, English)

HeadTurn (€2,99)/MagicReader move your head for pageturning pdfreader

Symphonizer (iOs) (€9,99) laughing makes the page turn

piaScore (iOs) (free) (many languages) gives direct access to The International Music

Score Library Project (IMSLP

Interactive ways of displaying sheetmusic:

Henle library app (IOs) (Android) Free (German, English, Chinese)

Cadenza (iOs) The orchestra that listens to you (many languages)

Sheet music direct (iOs)

Neoscores/Gustav

iRealbook pro (IOs) (Android) (€12,99) Chord charts , transponable , audio

accompaniment (many languages)

Choir Prodigy (iOs) (Free) (English)

Player versions of desktop music notation programs

Musescore (iOs) (€1,99)

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Avid (Sibelius) Scorch (iOs) (€1,99) (English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese)

New forms of music notation

Sonja (iOs) (€0,99)

Music notation apps:

Symphony Pro, (iOs) ($14,99) (English)

iWritemusic (iOs) ($5,99)

Ensemble composer Pro (Android) (€9,99)

Music notation (Android) (in-app-purchase)

Guitar Pro (iOS) (Android) (€5,97) playing, writing tablature

Handwriten/photoscan music recognition

Notion (iOs) (€14,99) (German, English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese)

StaffPad (Windows) (€69,49)

NotateMe (iOs) (Android) (€39,99) (English)

iSeeNotes (iOs) (Android) (€3,99) Scan musical notes with your smartphone camera,

automatically recognize the notes and hear the music play! (Using "musical OCR")

Scorecloud (iOs) (€2,99) for iPhone, turns audio, MIDI into sheet music

Audio input music recognotion

Muziek memo’s (iOs) (free) (many languages)

Riff maestro (iOs) (Android) (Free) (English)

Music education

Smart music

Ladida ( €2,49) (iOs)

Improvox (iOs) (€3,99) vocal instrument with real-time pitch correction and

harmonization

Voice tutor (iOs/iPhone) ($ 4,99) analyses your singing and gives feedback

Staff wars (iOs) (Android) (€0,99) learning notes by gaming

Ningenius (€0,99-$11,99 schooledition) learning notes, fingerings by gaming

Music minded piano (iOs) ($9,99) (English)) A tool to monitor growth or decline in

cognitive function. In the process of learning notes, duration and playing songs

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (demo Free, full version $13,99) (iOs) 1.96 GB storage!

New way’s of musical analysis

Digital Audio Stations, Sequenzers, Dj etc

Garageband (iOs) (€4,99) Digital Music studio , Apple product 1,09 GB storage

(many languages)

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio (€5,99) (Android) Digital Music studio

Traktor (€9,99) (iOs) Dj software

Amazing slow downer (iOs) ($14,99) slow down music without changing the pitch

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Bandmate Chromatic Tuner (iOs) (Android) visually shows the pitch that is being

played on the staff

Musical instruments

iFretless Bass (iOs) ($14,99) (English)

Earhoof (iOs) ($4,99) (English)

Soundprism (iOs) ($5,99) (many languages) composition tool and midi controller

Thumbjam (iOs) ($8,99) (English)

Tools

Song Key Finder (€4,99) (iOs) (Android) Song Key Finder takes audio input from a

phone’s mic and correlates it to one of the 24 Western musical keys

Composer’s Sketchpad (Light version free, full version $2,99) (iOs)

Online sheet music:

IMSLP The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as

the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-

based project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores ,

(partly) free access to more than 300.000 scores (PDF)

Neoscores/Gustav interactive and non-interactive scores

Sheet music direct

Henle Library App

Playlist Youtube video: http://bit.ly/IAMLvideo

John Valk

Specialist Media Literacy

Public Library Rotterdam, The Netherlands

j.valk@bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl

www.blogs.bibliotheek.rotterdam.nl/blog/muziek-maken

@johnvalknl

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