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I looked at the online preview and it should be totally playable as is on a pedal harp. With a lever harp you’d need to do a bit of figuring for the levers, but it should be adaptable. I’m not aware of any published harp transcriptions of any of his work.
Not sure what you don’t understand? Anyway, while I don’t know that particular piece, most of Michael Scott pieces work just fine on the harp as is. Have you looked at the sheet music? What do you find unplayable?
Given that paid apps are very rarely more than a dollar or two, with $5 being considered “expensive”, it’s not too onerous to invest in some of the paid ones. For one thing, the ads on the free apps use up bandwidth, sometimes quite a bit of it. After all, it’s not like having to shell out $600 for photoshop or anything. Just saying I wouldn’t like my ipad much or find it terribly useful if I limited myself to free apps.
E NB, Blue Note flash cards, for one, although I can’t get the latest update to display bass clef notes properly, so tell them to read the latest reviews. Note Perfect, Right Note Lite. Karajan is a popular ear training app, although I personally don’t love it and it’s expensive as apps go –$15. Ear Trainer, the goodEar series, there are so many. Lots of them have free versions you can use as a trial to see if you think they’re worth the money.
I never heard of camscanner. The most popular scanner apps are docscan and scanner pro, but as I said in my last post, neither is any good unless you have a photo stand to hold the ipad while it scans.
There are other threads here about apps for ipad. Some personal favorites:
For sheet music: forScore, with the airturn BT-105 foot pedal for hands-free turning. Other popular music library apps would include Unreal Book, and the apps from musicnotes.com and hal leonard.
For tuning: cleartune, Peterson iStrobosoft.
You can record in garageband, but I find it easier to use a program not so much designed for compiling loops. I use a basic recorder like iTalk Recorder for practice recording and Multitrack DAW for serious recording.
There are also tons of theory apps, teaching apps, ear training apps, flash card apps, etc. if you teach.
Incidentally, you can scan with the ipad. There are plenty of apps for that, but I don’t care for the quality of the results so I prefer to use a regular flatbed scanner.
If your main computer is a mac running a recent version of OS X you can create a signature in Preview and use that to sign documents, so no need for all the scanning. Go to Preview>Preferences>Signatures. You write a signature on a piece of paper one time, hold that up to the mac’s camera, and preview keeps it on file to use for signing PDF files in the future.
Even in windows your scanner should give you the option to save the scan as a pdf. Just print the contract, sign it, and then scan the signed contract as a pdf.
On my ipad I just go to the drop box app, and then go to the folder with my sheet music in it. From there you have the option to open the music in any of the apps that support PDFs.
Or, once you’ve linked forScore to your dropbox account, you can just click the dropbox button in forscore to see the entire contents/folder structure of your dropbox account. (Formats other than PDF will be grayed out.) No need to use the dropbox app after the first linkup.
Oh, and yes, forScore can see the file structure in your dropbox folder and you navigate through the folders there to the file(s) you want the same way you would in any other program.
I’ve been sending individual scanned music pdfs to my iPad via email
Why? It’s so much easier just to drag them into itunes, IMHO. At least unless you never sync your ipad, and if not, how do you back it up?
I do have a dropbox account but I don’t use it for forScore. However, it’s not correct to say that all dropbox files sync automatically. In forScore you can choose to download a single file easily enough, if you want to do it that way. To me, it’s not any easier to drag a pdf to dropbox than to drag it to the forscore section of itunes, so I don’t see the point, unless I had a music library so large I didn’t want it all on the ipad at one time and knew I’d always have wifi access on a gig, or if I had an unlimited data plan. But sure, you can do that if you want.
EDIT You can also unlink a dropbox account from forScore any time you want. It’s all quite easy to do.
Then you may not know that Margot Fonteyn actually lived in Panama for many years. Her story is a very interesting chapter of the history of Panama–ask your family there about it.
Hi, Rod.
You can get a piano arrangement just about anywhere, and it’s very easy to play from the standard piano arrangement, even on a lever harp,. I use the one from musicnotes, but they’re all pretty much the same.
Madelyn, have you been in touch with the Orquestra Nacional and http://www.operapanama.com? I really have no idea of the current harp situation there, but there used to be harpists in Panama City years ago. It’s always been very interested in and support of ballet and opera.
I ask, because frankly I think you should not take out a loan for a harp unless there is no other way to get one there. The interest rates on those loans are pretty high, and as a student you’re probably already racking up some debt for your education.
I would agree with Tacye, not at all because of climate, but because one thing about Venus harps is that they definitely don’t seem to have the resale value of L&H or Salvi, so you can often find quite a bargain in a used Venus if you can find an instrument that appeals to you.
For the climate thing, I’m not sure what many of the folks responding to your threads are thinking, but you can set your mind at rest, folks. Panama City is a huge modern metropolis that has plenty of air conditioning. I can’t imagine that Madelyn would have any more problems from humidity than she would have in South Texas or South Carolina or FL, in other words, none. (EDIT Well, other than perhaps somewhat more string breakage, maybe.)
Well, that’s the name of the Zeffirelli movie about St. Francis. Maybe if you look for “Brother Sun, Sister Moon” since the film was, I think, in English originally? I’m guessing it’s the main song from the film–got a link?
