ForScore will do a lot of what you want and is not tied down to any
library at all. Any music which can be downloaded or scanned into PDF
format can be loaded into ForScore, even just plain text with no notation.
ForScore (and MusicReader, too) allow for landscape viewing, which makes
the notes larger.
What neither program allows is the changing of the music to different
keys or in any other manner. The user can add text or musical
annotations to the music, but you can't edit the actual score itself.
To do that you need a music writing program and that's when you run into
lots of problems getting the music into the program. To edit/compose
music the best I've found is SymphonyPro, and that will accept MusicXML
input. So with Neuratron's PhotoScoreUltimate on a computer, one can
scan in printed music, save it as MusicXML, import that file into
SymphonyPro and it will appear as notation which can then be edited.
But it's not as simple as notation programs such as Finale or Sibelius
on the computer, so it isn't a very elegant solution.
For either of the two best iPad music reading apps, ForScore and
MusicReader (as well as for any program which has pages to be turned)
there is the AirTurn bluetooth page turning footswitches. I've got the
setup where the footswitches and the control box velcro onto a small
plastic platform so they stay in the same place all the time -- I've
attached them so the footswitch on the right turns the page (or
half-page) forward and the one on the left turns it backwards.
I'll be happy to answer any other questions you may have, feel free to
contact me through this list or off-list if you'd rather.
But rest assured that as long as you (or your sister-in-law) can scan
printed music into PDF files on a computer, that music can be read by
either ForScore or MusicReader.
David H. Bailey
On 11/25/2011 4:33 PM, JoyceK wrote:
> Hi, I'm a brand new member of this group. I just visited my
> sis-in-law today who plays recorder at a professional level with
> several groups. Her eyesight is failing and reading sheet music is
> becoming increasingly difficult. I would love to find an ap that
> would allow her to download a huge variety of early music for the
> recorder and to be able to enlarge it and display it in landscape
> mode on the iPad. I understand there is software that would allow her
> to be able to change the arrangement from another instrument to
> recorder and make other changes which I think she would love to do.
> I've just begun to research this today and I am not a musician so
> that puts me at a disadvantage. From what I've read, it sounds like
> the aps are tied to their own library of digital sheet music which is
> rather limiting. I'm wondering if there is an ap that allows you to
> download digital sheet music from any source. I also understand that
> there are automatic page turners and foot-operated page turners. If
> there is another yahoo group that would be more appropriate to ask,
> please let me know.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Joyce Keay
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