Wow, I didn't know that MMO was still going. I can remember handling
the vinyl LPs for MMO when I worked in a library 1975-6.Martin
On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 05:52 -0700, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
> Dario,
>
> While I would never discourage anyone from using Lilypond, what you
> want has been done by Hal Leonard Publications in its Music Minus One
> series.
> https://www.halleonard.com/series/MMONE?dt=item#products
>
> Mark
>
> From: lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org [mailto:
> lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
> Dario Marrini
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 3:09 AM
> To: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Subject: [OT] help about some questions
>
> Hi lilypond friends,
> I'd like to create an orchestral midi collection, for playing piano
> concertos with a MIDI accompaniment.
>
> The first difficulty is transcribing orchestral scores, then, I
> wonder if someone could suggest me a pdf2midi or pdf2score app or
> online service that could help; at this moment I'd be interested in
> Prokofiev Piano Concerto n. 1 and Beethoven Piano Concerto n. 3; I
> tried the online service of MuseScore but I got a 'score not
> compatible' message (I'm using the imslp.org score)
>
> Second difficulty will be getting an interactive mode about playing
> midi orchestral score, even without thinking to a 'follow me' mode,
> listening to audio solo part (I think it'd be very difficult to
> implement), I thought I could create and additional track, with just
> a few notes to play, and then finding a way to concatenate other midi
> events to those special notes, to get a synchronous mode with solo
> part (played by human) and midi orchestral part; even in this case
> (I'm not a such good code programmer) I have no idea if it could be
> possible and how.
>
> I'm a pianist and piano teacher, this kind of solution could improve
> very much the teaching level and the final piano and orchestra exam;
> indeed, it could be a development idea, creating a web site to offer
> this service
>
> Hoping this idea could be interesting for someone, I wait for your
> help or even thoughts
>
> regards
>
> dario m.
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J Martin Rushton MBCS
