![]() ⌥⇧⌘C will generate a quick interface for you to pare the link down a bit (e.g. ⌃⌥⌘C will quickly copy the ‘most verbose’ link to your clipboard, which is what you would – more than likely – always want. In version 14, there’s now an easy way to generate these links within the app with one of two shortcuts. ![]() There’s a handy tool at the bottom of this page to help you build those links, but it requires too much work by hand. Until now, though, there hasn’t been a great way of generating these URLs to a score. To me, the best use of URL schemes in forScore are in being able to link scores or pages within a score – this makes it easy to drop those links in a rehearsal plan, or a student’s lesson log to quickly jump between necessary music while teaching. ![]() Since 2018, forScore has had support for URL schemes, and pretty good ones at that. I’m hoping that they soon improve their handling of wind bands so that I can pull more recordings into class on the fly, rather than relying on existing playlists I’ve found or made.Ī new version of forScore is out today, and it brings a very exciting new feature for educators, along with other improvements noted on the official site. Still, it’s nice to finally have this app! I think it’s a promising way to surface the source of transcriptions with students more quickly and meaningfully (rather than sticking to the top recordings that a search might pull up in the main Apple Music app), and for any students who use Apple Music, provides a great starting point to getting them to listen to more of their own instrument through those featured browsing sections. It certainly seems as if the line they’ve drawn for “classical” is sufficiently wide to encompass the wind band idiom, given the presence of soundtracks for film and video games. If you’re looking under the ‘genres’ section, you won’t see anything for wind band. There are ensembles I’ve encountered that don’t have their own page, others with multiple pages for the same ensemble breaking apart their catalog, and while I can sympathize with it being a ‘harder’ task than orchestral works, I still feel it’s worth doing. ![]() It does a pretty good job of the sort of thing you’ll see on major classical labels, but I feel like it has room to grow when it comes to the symphonic/wind band. This has been in the works for some time, and I wouldn’t be showing proper excitement at something if I didn’t immediately have some complaints with it. It’s a very nice way to find and engage with classical music. Breaking away from the simple ‘song-album-artist’ scheme to get more advanced metadata (works, composers, ensembles, conductors) is not just welcome, but handled very well in the app. This evening, I got my notification to download Apple Music Classical, which I’ve been eagerly awaiting for awhile now. On the former two, you can play the “real” game without paying anything, though you’ll want to pay when you play a bit to really get your fix and develop your muscles with the access to additional puzzles. It’s available on iOS and Android and even Steam. Some might say it’s cheating, but I like to play with the ‘Correct Word Feedback’ setting, rather than the default ‘valid.’ Maybe one day, I’ll play it the real way, but for now, I enjoy it with that setting enough to rack up a 474-day streak. Knotwords is a word game that is like a crossword puzzle that’s about unscrambling words, rather than solving clues. Knotwords is by Zach Gage, who I already thought made great phone games before Knotwords (his Good Sudoku took me from liking Sudoku to being at least a bit good at it). Wordle never clicked for me, but a game that I consider in a similar vein has: Knotwords. My students often talk about Wordle, and on Mastodon (another topic I’ve meant to post on!) I see discussion about it and other word games. I’ve been meaning to post about a lot of different things and failed to get around to it (including Dorico 5!)
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