Transposing

[Frhornlover]

I play in a community orchestra and have played for years in church, etc. Never have I been asked to transpose something in my head. It has all been written in F or printed in F. I now have several pieces in D, Eb and C. Is there some way I can scan my music and have Notation read it then transpose it for me? Or, is there some other way I can get this done? Thank you.

[dj]

Hi, Frhornlover:

While Notation products don't do scanning, there are a number of programs that can scan your sheet music. SmartScore, Photoscore and SharpEye are three such. SharpEye is cheapest, I think, at $169 -- I've used it in the past and it does a decent job of creating a midi file from the printed page. They all require a lot of editing before result is ready to be used.

Once turned into a midi file, Notation Musician and Notation Composer can both transpose your part for you, as well as extract it from a large score, if need be.

If you're playing standard repertoire pieces, you might be able to find them as midi files already, then bring them into Musician or Composer for transposing.

And, of course, you could enter your part into Musician or Composer note by note (assuming you don't have a midi keyboard to play it in.) and then transpose it. That's a lot of work, but it will get you the parts.

Good luck.

David

[Sherry C]

Hi guys,

I use an even cheaper program called Photoscore LITE (regular price is $49) to do the same thing. You can find a bit more about such scanning programs at our Resource page at http://www.notation.com/Articles-MusicOCR.htm

You can find info about the Photoscore program under the "Neuratron" heading.

ttfn,
Sherry