input score, play music?

I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can anyone
tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and then
have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?

Any and all help appreciated.

--
Rick

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:48:13 -0500, Rick wrote:

>
> I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can anyone
> tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and then
> have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?
>
> Any and all help appreciated.

noteedit & lilypond

noteedit is a visual based front end. straight forward: note, note, note
.... and out to midi.

lilypond is a music typesetter - takes a fair bit to get used to this one
but it is world class if you put in the effort to climb that steep
learning curve. Remember that it is firstly designed to print sheet music,
but it does also have midi functionality.

hth/FGB

GreyBeard wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:48:13 -0500, Rick wrote:
>
>
>>I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can anyone
>>tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and then
>>have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?
>>
>>Any and all help appreciated.
>
>
> noteedit & lilypond
>
> noteedit is a visual based front end. straight forward: note, note, note
> ... and out to midi.
>
> lilypond is a music typesetter - takes a fair bit to get used to this one
> but it is world class if you put in the effort to climb that steep
> learning curve. Remember that it is firstly designed to print sheet music,
> but it does also have midi functionality.

This is something I've wondered about--what about the reverse direction?
Will this lilypond do that? I.e. can I sing a song into the mike and
have it print me the score?

Mike Oliver wrote:

> I.e. can I sing a song into the mike and
> have it print me the score?

Of course I don't expect it to print the lyrics,
just the notes.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:00:33 -0600, Mike Oliver wrote:


> This is something I've wondered about--what about the reverse direction?
> Will this lilypond do that? I.e. can I sing a song into the mike and
> have it print me the score?

Sweet dreams, baby!

It's very, very difficult to do that, although lilypond and noteedit both
attempt to reverse from midi files. problems include 'how long is a 1/4
note' and 'how exact can you sing that 1/4 note'. The resulting
interpretation usually takes as long to clean up as entering a score by
hand.

/FGB

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:56:41 +0000, GreyBeard wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:48:13 -0500, Rick wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can anyone
>> tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and then
>> have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?
>>
>> Any and all help appreciated.
>
> noteedit & lilypond
>
> noteedit is a visual based front end. straight forward: note, note, note
> ... and out to midi.
>
> lilypond is a music typesetter - takes a fair bit to get used to this one
> but it is world class if you put in the effort to climb that steep
> learning curve. Remember that it is firstly designed to print sheet music,
> but it does also have midi functionality.
>
> hth/FGB

Thanks. I'll look at them.

--
Rick

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:56:41 +0000, GreyBeard wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:48:13 -0500, Rick wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can anyone
>> tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and then
>> have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?
>>
>> Any and all help appreciated.
>
> noteedit & lilypond
>

BTW: Both are included in many distros, and for lilypond there are
prebuilts for many distros as well at http://www.lilypond.org

Rick wrote:
> I have a couple sets of sheet music from old high school days. Can
anyone
> tell what software I'd have to put together to input the score, and
then
> have it played back? ... or point me to some directions?
>
> Any and all help appreciated.

For one-stop-shopping I always go to:
( http://linux-sound.org/ )

prg