- NoteView is a special Internet version of Nightingale that lets the user read and listen to a score without the ability to edit, print or export the score in any way.
- Allows anyone to view a Nightingale score without the need to actually own Nightingale
- Lets Nightingale users publish scores over the Internet or the World Wide Web for potential customers to view
- Nightingale owners can hand out “electronic business cards” on floppy disks, which contain examples of their work
- Music publishers and composers can distribute excerpts of all their musical scores worldwide for anyone to try out
-when someone wants to buy a score, they contact you by phone or e-mail.
Musicware Introduces Electronic Sheet Music Previewer
NoteView‘ Software Gives Music Composers a Worldwide Market at Their Fingertips
REDMOND, Wash. -- August 1, 1995 -- The music publication revolution is here! Musicware, Inc., is proud to announce the release of NoteView™. This exciting new software program allows anyone using a Macintosh to view and hear any musical score created with Nightingale®, Musicware's critically acclaimed notation software for Macintosh. Musical scores or excerpts, posted by owners of Nightingale, can be downloaded, read and played by anyone using NoteView. NoteView is available worldwide via Internet and other on-line services at no charge.
NoteView is the latest addition to the suite of integrated Nightingale products, which includes what many consider to be the best music scanning program on the market, NoteScan®. Musicware is the first company to offer to the public a means of true worldwide electronic sheet music viewing. Composers, arrangers and publishers now have a new sales tool, giving them the means to reach a worldwide market without paper, postage, or even phone!
Musicians who own Nightingale and wish to publish score examples on the Internet, or share their work on floppy disk can give away free copies of NoteView so that potential customers or friends can audition the scores. NoteView scores can only be read and listened to; they cannot be altered or printed. NoteView is also compatible with World Wide Web browser applications, so it can be used "on-line" to view scores without the need to actually download any of the scores to a user's terminal.
Examining a musical score with NoteView is far more powerful than listening to a simple "sound file". The end user can select and audition individual measures or segments of the score, even isolate a specific voice, and play everything through his/her own MIDI system (or directly out the built-in Macintosh speakers). The person auditioning a score can zoom in with magnified views of up to 600%, or zoom out to view all pages of the entire score at once with reduced magnifications down to 25%.
WHO WILL USE NOTEVIEW?
• Composers, Arrangers and Engravers - who wish to share examples of their work, risk free, before a worldwide market of interested musicians.
• Large or Small Publishers - who wish to increase distribution worldwide by posting their inventory, electronically, and with little cost, for all to see and hear.
• Sheet Music Suppliers - who, with permission from their publishers, wish to post excerpts from their entire stock onto the Internet/WWW, or onto disk. Files posted for NoteView access create an opportunity for "electronic shopping" by any musician who is a potential customer.
• Libraries - who, respecting all copyright laws, wish to place "read only" scores onto computer for electronic viewing and listening by library users at any computer terminal. Public domain scores that are becoming worn from heavy use can be scanned into Nightingale with NoteScan and posted electronically with NoteView.
• Teachers - who wish to give students musical examples and exercises for use in home study.
Important Note: All electronically posted and/or scanned use of copyrighted materials must conform to all established copyright laws and fair use conventions. The rights of publishers and copyright holders must be respected.
RULES FOR DISTRIBUTION AND LICENSING OF NOTEVIEW
Musicware allows individuals a free license for distribution of NoteView, with the single requirement that the accompanying "Read Me", "NoteView Help" and "Playback Driver" files are distributed with the software at all times. Companies (such as a music publisher) distributing NoteView in a commercial forum, and libraries, must license the use of NoteView for a nominal fee. A specially created version of NoteView bearing the logo and advertisement of the licensing company or library is also available.
HOW TO OBTAIN NOTEVIEW
NoteView is now included free of charge with all copies of Nightingale. A Nightingale-to-NoteView converter is required to create locked NoteView files. Copies can be obtained directly from Musicware at 206-881-9797 or 1-800-997-4266. Beginning August 15, 1995, NoteView can be downloaded from any number of electronic bulletin board services and Web sites, including the following:
• Musicware "home page" - via WWW at http://www.halcyon.com/musicware/
• Pepper National Music Network (Internet connection, go to ftp ftp.jwpepper.com, or via WWW at http://www.jwpepper.com).
• CompuServe (Go to the MIDIBVEN forum, and find TAP Music Systems)
• America Online (Send mail to TAP Music)
• E-world (Go to Music, Ask the Musical Doctor, Doctor's Reading Room, Computer Applications in Music)
• NoteView is also available over the Internet from Sumex-AIM and Umichigan.
