iClassicalScores app for iPhone and iPad
Carefully handcrafted from musicians to musicians, iClassicalScores has been designed to satisfy all the needed features for the daily round instrument performers by making their life easier and more comfortable. Don’t carry paper scores, pencil, rubber, metronome and other old stuff any more because you will have all this and much more with this app.
iClassicalScores is the perfect musician companion. Create your own library by searching and downloading free scores from the largest music library on the internet. And then view, annotate (in-app purchase) and share all of them.
Add scores
- Search for more than 200.000 public domain scores in the international music library project. Filter your searches to find the exact score.
- Import scores from Dropbox, other apps and email attachments.
- Digitalize your real paper scores with your device camera. Apply effects to enhance the result and create a Pdf.
- Generate your own custom blank sheet paper and use the annotations to handwrite your own music.
Library
- Organize your scores by putting them into folders.
- Backup your library and restore it at anytime.
- Share, print, open with other apps, listen to your downloaded audio... and more!
View scores
- Use a Bluetooth foot pedal to turn pages.
- Make perfect annotations to your scores using the easy and useful annotating tools. (Requires in-app purchase)
- You can also use the built-in metronome, music player, recorder and piano keyboard.
- Arrange the pages of your scores.
Pianists: two pages, two devices
- The only app which lets you see a score with two devices: one for the left page and the other for the right page. (It requieres at least iPad Air and above or iPhone 6 and above)
For orchestras and chamber music
- Using multiple devices to see the same score and one of them leads the others: sending page changes and annotations.
Motivation
- Track your practice time and be more productive.
- Set goals and win awards
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"iClassicalScores is a really great App!" Rating: 4/4
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All the scores and audio performances are provided by the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library (http://imslp.org), a fantastic source of scores and audio which are free.
Pros and cons of iClassicalScores app for iPhone and iPad
iClassicalScores app good for
After dabbling in piano playing for decades, I started playing more seriously a year ago when I retired. It soon became clear that to progress exercise and etudes are important. (Per Playing the Piano for Pleasure by Charles Cooke.) I have a bookcase of music to play, but no Hanon, nor etudes which I sent to college with a son. Therefore, I downloaded this app and have been very pleased.
This app connects me to a huge database of public domain music. I really like the convenience of easily and quickly downloading them. The iPad screen is large enough to use for reading music at the piano.
Before this I was downloading pdf files and putting them Kindle. That was tedious.
On an iPad air it has performed quite nicely.
This most recent update looks like it has added some very nice features. I look forward to trying them out.
I love the app before and the new version looks even better. The customer support was terrific
The practice and annotation tools are very handy and well designed. This is a very useful app.
I have been using this app since I got the iPad Pro at the beginning of the year. It is great for making notes on scores and parts for my students. I utilize this app mostly for importing classical music from the IMSLP website. I have access to a tremendous amount of music this way. Additionally, I can scan or even take a photo directly from the iPad to import music that I own a copy of.
I recently acquired an AirTurn Bluetooth foot pedal for my iPad and it automatically works with this app without having to set anything up. It is fantastic to flip pages without missing a beat.
I just got an iPad and with that and this app, this typical unorganized musician finally has his stuff together.
As a musician, I can keep off line the scores I find on Internet and need for my studies!
Some bad moments
It has been the best app for sheet music so far, but the update screwed it up for me! I cant open my music anymore. Everything takes forever and once its finally there it wont go back to the main menu! Annoying. Please fix it. I need my scores!
You totally messed up a superb app and - of course - my last gig!! Whats the point??!
You can get all scores via IMSLP and your web browser without paying anything.
This doesnt even provide an easy access to IMSLP...
The update made the app slowwwww. A 3-second response time to taps and swipes is inexcusable. (iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.2)
----ORIGINAL REVIEW----
So glad I got this app. Its great to have scores at ones fingertips (literally).
One thing that would be really nice but is almost certainly not feasible would be a way to purchase (via IAP) scans of scores still under copyright in ones own country. Its frustrating finding a score only to discover that it is still under copyright.
Another issue is that the app seems to be eating up a lot of my memory even after deleting scores.
A suggestion for improvement would be a way to flag certain scans as illegible/poor from within the app. Also, it would be nice to have the ability to straighten certain pages of scores that were not aligned properly when scanned.
Other than that, awesome app. Recommended.
Went from a very good app in version 2 to a very bad app in version 3. Now, it is almost impossible to download scores from IMSLP, which is why most people got the app in the first place!
I used to like it, except for the awkward sorting order. This is now better, though you need to be at the top of the page to choose your sorting method (when there are many scores this is annoying).
In previous update it froze on start. This update (3.0.1) is so slow that I rather use Adobe or iPad iBooks.
Life is too short...Hope developers sort out this issue.
Update:
With the current update of today (3.0.2), it is even S. L. O. W. E. R.......
Currently, useless for me.
