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Sheet Music to Midi Files
By Stephen Kent Goodman

Converting sheet music may in theory seem to be a simple proposition, but
many mistakes were made on the original sheet music in notation, simply
because of a misprint or -- more often than not -- just bad musical
choices/theory.  In order to catch and correct these mistakes you need a
good education in music theory to properly convert the sheet music to a
Midi file.

And this doesn't even address the problems with notes out of range,
non-chromatic instruments, etc.; not to mention arranging the piece for a
particular instrument.  These are all things that have to be considered
when converting sheet music to a midi file.

Some things to remember...

S. K. Goodman

 [ Many sheet music transcriptions of "jazz" performances were published
 [ that are very inaccurate.  A noteworthy (!) exception is the book of
 [ Jelly Roll Morton performances, transcribed by James Dapogny, who is
 [ is masterful musician and pianist with keen ears.  I recommend it
 [ highly to the Morton student.  -- Robbie


(Message sent Fri 18 Jul 1997, 18:28:18 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Files, Midi, Music, Sheet

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