'Arrange for' command from scanned piano music
Hello, and I'm a newie aged 21yrs plus 60 years' experience.
Question: Is there a facility in MuseScore (MUS) to scan in a sheet/s of piano music and then request a default, but editable arrangement, for say 4 hands, or say for a small group of instruments?
If yes would a separate OCR software package be needed?
many thanks MikeS
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Welcome MikeS, have a look: https://musescore.com/import
or try searching Audiveris (eg http://musescore.org/en/node/13597)
In reply to Welcome MikeS, have a look: by Shoichi
Thanks for the response but regretfully it's unhelpful.
1. ..../import goes to a PDF page.
2. .... /13597 goes to audiveris. This software is for Windows only. I have an iMac.
MikeS
The OMR software like Audiveris can help with the first part, but arraning music for different instrumentation is not something easily automatable. At best, maybe some Ph D student somewhere has written an algorithm to do this in simple cases, but it wouldn't be anything youd be likely to just plug in and use. The music21 programming language is something one might use if they wished to pursue this, and perhaps someone in that world has experimented with this.
Perhaps here's half the solution?
Ignoring, for the moment, how to scan a piano score into an iMac, you might want to have a look at this:
http://musescore.org/en/project/arrangeparts
for creating an ensemble from a MuseScore notated piano score.
Regards.