an observation

[kaberett]

Quite possibly the single most noticeable difference widespread smartphone usage has made to my life in the last ten years is the bit where, when in rehearsals you reach a movement where the horns are tacet, instead of each picking up a different book or newspaper... we all just pull out our phones (unison).

Comments

Re: I'm educated

[jesse_the_k]

The interaction between technology and art is fascinating

Something tablets/e-paper could do would be transposition!

Re: I'm educated

[ewt]

I'm a horn player, I can generally transpose at sight anyway (though at the organ I prefer not to do this with anything too complex; there are a lot more notes at a time), and I always forget this is something other people might want...!

But if you have MusicXML or even MIDI for your part, you can transpose it and then print it out. If you have a PDF which is what most of the public domain scores will be in, you're out of luck anyway.