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Music Minus One for Recorder
The Music Minus One company sells a large collection of backing accompaniment tracks on CD along with sheet music for playing solo recorder. The link above is for Baroque music for recorder; they also have Renaissance music for recorder, and a larger collection of many other musical styles. I noted that they sell one collection ...
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American Recorder Society
Contact the American Recorder Society, which has chapters of amateur recorder ensembles in many cities in the USA. They also publish method books and repertoire.
I'm sure you can find similar groups in other countries if you do not live in the USA.
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Yes, this can be done.
I have no direct experience here, but there are several projects underway to translate musical pieces that are in the open-source MusicXML data format (which can be exported from music notation software such as Finale and Sibelius) into Braille sheet music.
There is a great deal of public-domain classical music available in ...
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My answer starts with (and assumes) the definition of glissando provided by @Wheat Williams
And basically disagrees with the first (currently accepted) answer by @NReilingh
NReilingh says:
The playing technique for this kind of gliss on saxophone will involve
a mixture of embouchure bend and fingering, and the emphasis should be
on the embouchure.
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To follow up Wheat's definition answer, here's how I would play this:
When playing glisses on wind instruments, especially in a contemporary or jazz context, the change in pitch should be as continuous as possible. In contrast, a piano is only capable of playing absolutely defined pitches, so glisses all sound like a fast scale (chromatic or otherwise).
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The first example is a glissando. Wikipedia defines this as "A continuous, unbroken glide from one note to the next that includes the pitches between."
The second example is a fall-off, meaning to glissando downward in pitch to an unspecified point (you choose how far to go), possibly with a rapid decrescendo to silence.
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As @guidot said, nothing replaces human oversight. But a good piece of software (I use Digital Performer, which is decidedly not free) can quantize the MIDI performance, which helps it render a more conventional-looking score. But you will still have to clean it up.
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Smaller notes are a different issue, and could be relevant to a second line of lyrics, but you will typically see them only sporadically appear within the top voice.
Anyway, what you're asking about is referred to as multiple voices on a staff. Notes in harmony will generally only be grouped together with a stem if the rhythm is the same, and all of the ...
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When notes do share the same stem like this, it is because the editor is showing the two notes to be different "voices". In this particular case, they want to distinguish the melody, which is the top part, from the bottom notes that are filling out the harmony.
Separating the voices is extremely common whenever there is a sung melody that is also being ...
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Musescore is free as opposed to many other programs such as Sibelius or Finale. However, it is still very good and can do almost everything that paid programs can do.
One of the input files accepted in Musescore is MIDI and it can output PDF among other formats. However, as guidot said, it takes a human to do it right because a MIDI file does not contain ...
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This is not quite a "conversion", since the midi file is on a much lower level than a score. So while you will surely get some output, it is more than questionable, whether somebody can play from it without considerable editing. As an example midi contains nothing about a key and so has to make wild guesses concerning accidentals, same for time signature, ...
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Guitar pro does midi import and pdf export, so you should be able to obtain tabs and scores from it.
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