TME Week 2A Notes
Watched video: 'Dorico - Meet the Team Behind the Scenes'
[All about the challenges of creating a new kind of notation software]
Dorico is focused on players rather than instruments
It also has a piano roll element, so that you can teach kids about MIDI and notation together
You can also easily change meter without the mess
Readings for this week
Computers in Music Education – Andrew Brown (Griffith University)
Music Learning Today – William Bower
Sibelius 7 Handbook – James Humberstone
There are 33 instructional videos
James’ Sibelius readings/videos are the best!
Slow programs and Speedy Markets
While Sibelius and Finale have slowed down their upgrades, the market for scores has sped up
MuseScore
MuseScore is really important because it is free, and you can use it on tablets on phones
Version 2 doesn’t crash all the time!
There is a ‘synchronise to a movie’ function
Save score online
If you have a free MuseScore account, you can go into your account and see the score play
**Mind Explosion of the Week**
Alt + G gives you a cross-hair which you can use to copy and paste high resolution score excerpts (rather than doing screen shots which are lower resolution)
Other Free and New Software
Chrome is best for a lot of graphics-based things because it is most friendly for HTML5
Flat is another free notation software
Noteflight --> you can embed noteflight software in your blog post, so that way you can play scores while reading a blog entry
Notate Me – good for iPad, can use a pen to hand write score elements
Staff Pad – again you can hand write things into the score
A Common Language!
Music XML is now a common language that goes between all these different programs
You can import and export files in music xml, and that means that you can bring your scores over
Sibelius 7.5 – let’s get down to business
Exporting graphics from Sibelius (see **Mind Explosion of the Week** above)
You can actually export video as well
File --> Export --> Video
Tip: Don’t use the playback line cos it always looks behind
Tip: Export in HD
It should come into a .mov file
You could also then mute the audio and put better audio behind the score
You can also use ReWire (best feature ever) --> you can send the Sibelius audio out to a program like GarageBand, and then you can overdub the audio so that you can get rid of the awful sounds on Sibelius
Ideas Hub: In Sibelius 7, go to View --> Panels --> Ideas
Then find ideas you like, and you can paste it into your score
Click on the ‘score’ tab in Ideas Hub, I can put some of my own music in there --> So within the Sibelius app, you can create baby steps for your students
Reviewing files: At the end of the lesson, you can go to Review --> New Version --> then save a copy with comments about what you did that day
Then when they upload their file, you can make comments on it
Export log --> under review, you can then export a log of all of your changes
Note input --> over on the far right hand side you can see options for retrograde, inversion etc.
You can do this diatonically as well
Also look at ‘more’ and you can get lots more happening
Then of course you can add your retrograde/inversions etc. as part of the ideas hub
Worksheet creator: File --> teaching --> there are 1700 worksheets that are copyright-free
Everything is there! So good!
A Word about Copyright
If you try and transcribe a whole song and then put files up online for free, you are breaking copyright (even if the transcription is entirely your own work)
If you just take little samples or loops, although it is technically still breaking copyright, you can apply the 10% rule
But as long as you are only doing things in your classroom, no one can argue that you aren’t doing it for educational purposes
For score examples, just make your own on Sibelius, rather than taking a photo from your phone
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