Re: [Harp-L] "Son of Concertware"

[Michelle LeFree <mlefree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Aongus Mac Cana asks:

>  Concertware was a piece of very handy music software which used to be
>  available for a past generation of Mac computers...
>  The features of the software which I found useful were that you could key in
>  music from manuscript (fairly laboriously note by note, but I could
>  transcribe a jig or a reel in about twenty minutes)
>  Once you had saved the file, the software would play it for you at any speed
>  you chose - in a rather 'dalek' style, but well enough to let you learn the
>  tune.
>  It would also print out the tune in a very presentable music manuscript
>  form.
>  Is there any  musician and/or nerd on the list who can refer me to similar
>  simple software available for the PC? ...

Aongus, you might look into "Melody Assistant:"

http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/melody.htm

It supports the features you mention and it can print out diatonic and chromatic harmonica tablature along with standard notation.

It's been a while since I used it, so I'm not familiar with current releases. It costs a bit more than it did back then but it's still pretty reasonable and it has a try-before-buy option. Worked well for me.

Oh, yeah, they have another product, "OMeR" that can "recognize" scanned sheets of standard notation to help automate inputting scores of written music (sort of "character recognition" for music notation). Might be right up your alley...

Michelle