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Working with Digital Scores – OMEA 2025

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I am thrilled to be presenting four sessions at the Ohio Music Educators Association Professional Development Conference this weekend! My second session focuses on working with digital scores.

If you’d like to attend, the session is on February 7 at 5 PM. If you’re already here or have attended, thank you for coming!

This post serves as a resource for session notes, including links to the primary tools I mention in the session.

Apps for Scanning:
– Simple Scan
– Scanner Pro
– Apple Notes/Files

Apps for Scanning Notation
– Scoring Notes Article: Scanning the Current OMR Landscape
– Sheet Music Scanner
– Newzik
– Soundslice
– PlayScore 2
– SmartScore 64
– ScanScore 3

Apps for Managing Files
– Files App
– Dropbox
– Google Drive
– Documents
– Evernote

Apps for Working with Scores:
– forScore
– unReal Book
– Newzik

Notes on forScore:
– forScore Mac App Review
– Creating indexes with forScore
– The fastest way to get music into forScore
– forScore Automation Links

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PlayScore, with Anthony Wilkes

Anthony Wilkes joins the show to talk about PlayScore 2, a sheet music scanning app. Anthony is the CEO of PlayScore, and in the conversation we talked all about what it can do, the challenges of developing music scanning software, and practical uses for teachers and students.

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Show Notes:

App of the Week:
Robby – Audio Hijack 4
Anthony – Dorico

Music of the Week:
Robby – Listen to This – Audio Guide
Anthony – On BBC’s first ever live broadcast of Beatrice Harrison, featuring cellist Clare Deniz

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby – Universal Control
Anthony – iPad multitasking

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