Playscore2

[Albert Noble]

Getting good copyright free music is now possible due to the above.
Some might be familiar with this wonder app.
There are apps on the web where one can scan with their scanner, a music score and have it played back through the PC.

Playscore2 takes this a step further.
One only has to photograph a piano score with their ipad, smart phone
(if camera is a good one) and it is ready for playback.
It's FREE.
But for a small monthly/yearly subscription, an orchestral version is available.
A range of instruments being assigned as required.

This brings all of copyright free classical, piano/orchestral music to your films.
There are old books of music scores for sale from various sources on the net.
I've just bough a book of music scores of Brahms piano works for a few quid,
for example.
Playscore2 is not available for Windows, only Apple and Android.
Happy photographing
AND BY THE WAY........It's British !

[Albert Noble]

Of over 1000 hits on this thread so far has anyone tried using Plascore2 ?
Perhaps we could all share our \experineces on all its many possible manipulations
of music.
I've upgraded to the professional version giving me full orchestral score reading.

[TimStannard]

Not wishing to take the wind out of your sails, Albert, but whilst this may free you of the copyright of the performance/recording, it does not affect the mechanical copyright (ie the copyright of the composition) which exists for 70 years after the composer/lyricists death for anything not in the public domain.

And, whilst AI is improving, computer playback requires a lot of tweaking to make it sound anything like "real", and that assumes you have decent samples available (which can cost hundreds, if not thousands of pounds). Whilst it may be fine for simple percussive instruments like a piano, strings and woodwind are a different matter. I note they don't show any audible examples of anything other than piano.

I'm not criticising the App which I think is a very useful tool for practice/learning and even doing what you'[re trying to do at a basic level, but it does not avoid (all) copyright.

[Albert Noble]

Tim, I did say 'Classical music' which by normal definition is
all well over 70 years old.
I mentioned Brahms music as an example.....he died in 1897

Piano is only available in the free version. For £15/year
string and woodwind for example, are available. One can just pay a one off
payment and then cancel but have the extras for the whole year.

Vibrato is missing on the strings but can be added at correct moments
using other apps. of course.
But I accept that nothing is like the real thing, but having all
classical music available now does open up an interesting field.

[Albert Noble]

Sorry. I said that vibrato is not performed.
It is.
Here is list of musical notations that
Playscore2 can deal with, copied from their info................

Bars, notes, rests, accidentals including double accidentals

Tuplets: triplets, duplets, quintuplets, septuplets (both marked and implied)

Staff bracketing: grand staff braces, grouped staff brackets etc

Measures: bar lines, double bar lines, repeats, 1st and 2nd ending, bars spanning systems and pages

Anacruses, compliment anacruses

Dynamics: f, ff, fff, fz, fp, mf, p, pp etc

Hairpins (crescendos and diminuendos)

Articulation (>, ^, . – etc)

Ornaments trills, turns, mordents etc

Tremolo: note strikethrough, alternating, beamed alternating white notes etc

Special symbols: fermata, repeat-bar, ottava 8ve etc

Fingering for piano, violin etc

Slurs, ties

Clefs (system and inline): treble, bass, tenor, alto, soprano etc

Key changes: system, inline, cautionary

Time signatures: system, inline, cautionary and implied

[TimStannard]

Tim, I did say 'Classical music' which by normal definition is
all well over 70 years old.
I mentioned Brahms music as an example.....he died in 1897

Fair enough, if you're talking Classical as in the Classical period rather than broad terms.
I look forward to hearing some of what you achieve. It seems like a potentially very useful resource. Thanks for highlighting it.

[Albert Noble]

Here is an edited version of Brahms Hungarian dance No7 to be used in
an animated dance film, "Pin up," to illustrate the piano
in Playscore2.
Unless I found a good pianist or paid
for one to perform (£100 plus) I could never have this music
without Playscore2.

https://soundcloud.com/albert-noble-915 ... best-track

[TimStannard]

Here is an edited version of Brahms Hungarian dance No7 to be used in
an animated dance film, "Pin up," to illustrate the piano
in Playscore2.

Funnily enough the perfomance is very good (as in believable) but there are issues with some buzzing on the audio (which until i listened with headphones sounded like out of time cymbals and something that sound like strummed chord in a couple of place.

As an aside, you mention paying apianist. I wonder if anyone in the IAC world has tried using the likes of Fiverr to get a score written and recorded.

[John Simpson]

I get music from the YouTube Music Library for my Videos. It suits me fine for what I do. I don't think I am breaking any law.

It is not only the music score which can be copyright but also the performance, and whether the venue where the performance was filmed was licensed. I have noticed in Tesco that they play music which is reasonably near the original song but made by another person. Copyright is a lawyers tea party.