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Choral Library app: Browse CPDL on your iPhone/iPad
Choral Library is a free iPhone app (also runs on iPad) that lets you browse and download works from the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL). It also shows basic info about the work, including the...
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App Review: Collins Italian/English dictionary for iOS [via Ellen...
Collins It/En Dictionary on iPad (Credit: Ellen Rissinger) Collins It/En Dictionary on iPhone (Credit: Ultralingua) Ellen Rissinger, coach at the Semperoper and diction guru/host of the Diction...
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Another paper music fail, courtesy of FedEx Office
(Warning: this is more of a rant than a practical post!) I had another reminder yesterday of why I am sick of paper music. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t own a printer because the paper jams,...
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IPA & spoken audio recordings for St. Matthew Passion, Die Schöpfung, and...
Our chorus is performing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion this coming spring, and I just stumbled on an amazing free online resource to help us prepare: Berkshire Choral Festival IPA Project It has text (no...
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Tech for singers: An update from the trenches, Christmas 2012 (part 1)
Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Now that my music performance commitments for the holidays and the fall are behind me, I’m coming up for air and for a report on how things went from a technology...
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TunesViewer: iTunes U for Android – Study art, literature, poetry, history,...
Credit: iTunes U / Apple I’m starting to explore iTunes U as a learning resource for all of those subjects relevant to the music I perform: art, literature, poetry, history, mythology, language, etc....
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Streaming Internet radio: Opera, choral, art song, and operetta channels
I was inspired to compile a list of streaming internet radio stations that are of interest to classical singers, after reading a thread on this topic on Facebook some weeks back. You can listen to...
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Free Spotify on-demand music streaming on iPad (and iPhone/Android?)
I’ve gotten on the Spotify wagon during the last few months. People have been telling me about it (e.g. here’s an earlier blog post about one musician who uses it for audition prep). But I was...
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iTunes U courses and podcasts on acting, stagecraft, and theatre [via...
This is for you opera/theatrical types out there. After being in an acting class this summer, I was curious if iTunes U had any courses on related topics. I discovered that the National Theatre has a...
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Sweet MIDI Player app: Change tempo, key, and volume of MIDI practice files...
Sweet MIDI Player is a must-have app for any musician who uses MIDI practice tracks. It lets you play MIDI files, change their tempo or key, and mute or adjust volume for individual parts (channels)...
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