New way of sharing my music

[rhu]

Since several of you have complained that you don't read sheet music and my computer-generated samples are piano-only, I threw together a little Flash program that displays the lyrics in sync with the music. The UI is dead simple.

For now, I just did it for the first movement of Kabbalat Shabbat. Let me know if this is useful; if it is, I'll generate pages for the other movements.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Definitely useful... but are the lines supposed to repeat atop each other?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Each line represents a different voice; in this case the piece is six-part, so from the top to the bottom you're looking at the parts for soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Ah! I would never have guessed that... thanks for the explanation.

[cellio]

How hard would it be to do an Encore-style "move a cursor through the sheet music" animation? I read music just fine, but can't necessarily keep 4- to 6-part open scores coherently in my head. So being able to follow something while hearing the music is useful, and this would help me recover if I slip following the sheet music.

(In case you don't know Encore: think of a vertical line running through all scores (thin so as not to obscure the music) with a sort of "arrow head" on top and bottom to make it easy to find on the page. It moves once per measure, not with every note.)