[SWLUG] From sheet music to noises.

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:27:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Glenn Booth wrote:
> On 14/10/05, Telsa Gwynne <hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > I have some sheet music for four (and more) voices and I want to get
> > the hang of particular lines. I don't have a piano in the house and
> > it's not going to fit into the range of a descant recorder. So I can't
> > record those and then just play them back at myself until I know them.
> 
> I don't know how much sheet music you have, but if it was me I'd try
> to play it into a PC using a midi keyboard, and let an application
> write the score for me - writing it out long hand could get very tedious.

They are scores for SATB choirs and currently I have only three of 
them: three single songs. None are long. Well, one of them seems endless
but that's because I cannot get the hang of the alto line at all.
The longest might be five minutes, and there are lots of repeats 
which I assume any "I can read music scores" program would understand,
saving me much typing. 

I am sure the choir in question has a repertoire of more than three
songs, but I have only been to one practice so far. I would like to 
know the song before the next practice. :) 

> > Unfortunately, I don't know what SomeMusicApp and SomeSoundApp might
> > be called. Any suggestions?
> 
> Sorry, not for Linux, but I do have a midi keyboard that's not being used.
> If you are anywhere near Cowbridge, you're welcome to borrow it for
> the duration of the project. You just need to find SomeMusicApp to write
> the score from it (provided you have a midi capable sound card or a software
> synth).

It's not really a project in the sense of some academic quest to see
whether something is possible. It's more a "shit I need to learn this
by next week" sort of thing. Perhaps I should just find a piano shop
and drive the owners to distraction by picking out the same line on
every single piano in turn, but I see a few flaws in that plan...

> I need to find "SomeMusicApp" for my own purposes at some point, so
> I'll join you on the hunt. I was using Cubase until I ditched windows, but
> I don't have a similar app for Linux yet. Given the plethora of Windows
> apps that do this (including shareware ones) they must exist.

I am _sure_ there is a well-known one. It's one I keep meaning to 
look at. Unfortunately my procrastination habit has now caught me
out!

> Drop me a line if the midi keyboard is likely to be any use.

I'm interested, but more as a separate thing than for this. I have
never used one and I would be curious to know how they feel and play.

Telsa