Perusal Score Viewer (Maybe)

Perusal Score Viewer (Maybe)

I discovered this service that converts any PDF into a slick browser-based document viewer, and immediately thought it might be a good way to present a score for cursory perusal. After playing around with it, I’m not so sure, but I’d love to know what others think. One of my complaints is that the icons are pretty inscrutable to those who...

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StudyScores.com

So here’s StudyScores.com. The idea is that, while Amazon.com and SheetMusicPlus may each have a pretty good selection, it’s pretty hard to find anything at either site unless you already know what you want. You have to sift through all the easy piano stuff and ColdPlay anthologies, etc. StudyScores.com is organized around finding scores by...

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ClassicalLounge.com: No-nonsense Networking

MySpace has failed to capture my interest, although I was an early adopter (and gradual dropper) of similar services, such as Friendster and LinkedIn.  Friendster, which I believe originated this social networking phenomenon, seems to be purely for social interaction, which is fine, but not for everyone. (Plus, it makes me feel old.)  LinkedIn, is...

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A Nifty Collaboration Tool

Wow. I’m not sure I can remember how I stumbled upon this, but a few days ago I discovered one of the few truly useful things on the web. Meet Writely. This is a web-based word processor that not only stores all of your revisions, and lets you roll back to any version, but you can collaborate on documents with any number of other people. You...

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