I have been reluctant to move completely to iPad music for performance of classical music, but your solution sounds like a great idea. I do use it exclusively for keeping playlists when I play Irish music (Irish flute and whistle), to remind me of how each tune starts because I have a really hard time remembering how one tune starts when I am playing another. I would say it's because I am old, but I have always been that way. I can't remember how the tune goes or what key it's in, and if I hear a tune I can't remember the name, but once I hear or see a bar or 2 I can play from memory no problem. The iPad is great for this, I can set up my play lists with forScore and use a foot pedal to change the page to the next tune in a set, then when it's time to switch tunes I glance down and play from the music for a couple of bars and then I'm off. This is great for dances. My husband (a fiddler) on the other hand can not only remember how a tune goes, he can hear a tune and tell you the name, so I find myself calling him on the phone and humming a tune to get the name sometimes when he is not with me.
JulieOn Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:54 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net> wrote:
On 12/16/2013 11:05 PM, Tony wrote:My problem is that I grew up developing a love of books, too. So much
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> I am 55 Denise and I embrace the technology BUT I am torn between the
> age of the book and modern tech. I probably want the tech but respect
> the hard cover book.
> I grew up with books read encyclopedias and in many ways google is too
> easy!!
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that I want my entire library with me all the time because I never know
what I'll want to read next, or if I'll want to review some book such as
Will and Ariel Durant Story of Civilization or some tech manual or book
about music, etc.
So while I love printed books, I love my current technology which allows
me to carry a huge library in a single hand in a device which weighs
less than many of the paper books I wish to be able to read.
I do 95% of my reading on electronic devices. With my performing
musician's hat on, I use my iPad about 50% of the time, preferring
printed music most of the time but unable to carry it with me when I go
away for the weekend or on vacation.
Just this past Sunday I played piccolo trumpet in a performance of the
Vivaldi Gloria. I had my paper sheet music (created by me using my
computer, to convert the original trumpet part to the piccolo part for
easier playing) on the stand and right beside it I had my iPad with the
vocal score so that I could better know where we were and when I would
have to play again. The oboist who sat beside me also followed the
choral score for the same reason (trumpet and oboe only play in a few of
the movements). So it was a perfect blending of technology and paper
while playing an almost 300 year old piece of music which remains fresh
and wonderful.
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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Julie Mavity-Hudson
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