1) SAMPLE CATALOG of NOTATED SCORES

With NoteView(TM) from Musicware, you can preview - see and hear! - scores written in Nightingale music notation software or scanned into Nightingale with Notescan music scanning software right on your computer monitor! Rather than look at a single-page image of a printed score in GIF or JPEG format or play a MIDI file that you can't look at, you can both view the music, zooming in or out, and play any section you select on a MIDI synthesizer.
If you have downloaded NoteView already as a helper application to (preferably Netscape) as described below in the section About NoteView, try out the following short list of samples by single clicking on them. This list serves to demo the capabilities of this cataloging system. We plan to continually update this list to develop a sizable data base of NOTATED NEW MUSIC of the 20th CENTURY and beyond!
 

Using NoteView with a Web Browser

Though it can be used standalone, NoteView is intended primarily for use with a browser on the Internet World Wide Web. As of this writing, Netscape is probably the most popular Web browser on the Macintosh. The Netscape instructions below apply to Netscape 2.0 and later; Other browsers should require similar procedures.

NoteView files in online archives should always have names ending .nvu. This provides a means for a browser to find the program on your Macintosh and automatically open the scores as soon as you download them. In order to do this, you have to configure your browser to recognize the files and locate NoteView. IF YOU ARE USING NETSCAPE, follow these steps carefully:

From Netscape's Options menu, choose Preferences... . From the popup menu at the top of the dialog box, select Helper Applications. Click on the New... button.

Type application into the field marked Mime type:. Hit the tab key once and type x-noteview into the field marked Mime subtype:. Click on OK or hit the return key, which will return you to the Netscape Preferences dialog box.

You will see the new Helper Application listed as Unknown, with Action Unknown and no extensions listed. Next, click in the box to the right of Extensions: in the middle of the dialog box, and type nvu.

To tell Netscape where to find NoteView, click on the button marked Browse..., and locate the copy of NoteView you have installed. When you have done so, click OK or hit the return key, which will return you to the Netscape Preferences dialog box.

The popup menu to the right of Browse.. automatically lists the Macintosh file-types that NoteView recognizes. Make sure that the file-type SCOV is showing; if not, select it from the popup menu.THIS IS VITAL: if you do not select SCOV, NoteView will probably not be able to open your scores, and it may crash!

Finally, click on the radio button Launch Application.

If you are sure that you have followed these steps correctly, click on OK or hit the return key to return to Netscape. If you are not sure, click on Cancel and try again.

Next time you select a NoteView file from any web page which has been correctly set up, Netscape will automatically find NoteView and open the score for you.

Make certain your local server (Internet Service Provider) has been set up with NoteView's MIME type, subtype, and extension by providing your ISP/server with the above info, since not all ISPs are familiar with NoteView yet.

RULES FOR DISTRIBUTION AND LICENSING OF NOTEVIEW

Musicware allows individuals a free license for use and re-distribution of NoteView, with the single requirement that the accompanying Read Me and NoteView Help files and Playback Driver folder are distributed with the software at all times.

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1a) About NoteView and Other Helper Applications

NoteView is an electronic sheet music previewer for scores prepared with Nightingale, a music notation program for Macintosh computers.
If you are using a Macintosh, you can:
  • On your Web browser, preferably Netscape, view and listen to sheet music over the INTERNET! Click here to download a free copy of NoteView!
  • After downloading you get NoteView itself, its Help file, and a Readme file in a self-extracting archive. You need Stuffit Expander or some other utility to undo the binhex formatting. Your browser may be set up to do this automatically.
  • (Optional) Configure it as a helper application in your browser. To your list of Helper Applications, add a new type and subtype of application/x-noteview. Associate it with the extension "nvu" and set it up to launch NoteView. If you skip this step and you are using Netscape, Netscape will prompt you for this info the first time you choose a music file in step 3. See NoteView Help on the Apple menu for detailed instructions.
  • Choose the music you want to view. Your browser starts NoteView so that it can display the score.

    • Helpful Hints

    Using NoteView, you can examine the music score and play it on your MIDI synthesizer. Different parts are assigned to different MIDI channels. Related instrumental parts usually use the same MIDI channel.
    Important note: NoteView is mainly for score study. These files are optimized for the visual layout, not for expressive MIDI playback. To get the correct printed layout, the scores include symbols that do not play back and other information that may not sound right when played. You won't hear crescendos or glissandos and other performance details.

    Also important: If you want to play the score while still online with your net browser, preferably Netscape, set up your computer to bypass external hardware Midi setups which will make it troublesome to play sample files while on the Net. Simply hold the shift key down as you launch Noteview and you will be presented with a dialog box where you can select Midi Manager which makes it possible for you to patch NoteView to the QuickTime extension. Even better, if you have a SampleCell Nubus card you can play back the files in 16 bit CD quality sample based audio, Conflicts are likely to result if you alternatively use the printer port and change the cabling you are probably currently using. Use Apple's software based QuickTime 2.1, Musical Instruments 2.1,Midi Manager 2.0.2 and Tim Rand's MidiQT shareware extension that makes it possible to play back- as you view on the screen - a NoteView score in 16 channel multitimbral, good quality sound. These files are quick to download and can contain quite a bit of music.The Quicktime software is available through Apple's FTP sites and MidiQT is obtainable through TRand@aol.com for a $20 shareware fee. Be sure to disable Ram Doubler or Speed Doubler which cause strange things to happen with this software!

    Be sure to check the MIDI Preferences command. You can choose whether to have NoteView play everything on MIDI channel 1 or use the MIDI channels and program changes coded in the score (or the program numbers you specify, described next). The setting saved in the score depends on how the notator prepared the file.

    Use the Instrument MIDI Settings command on the Play menu to specify your own program numbers for each part. (Remember that if two parts use the same MIDI channel, you will hear only one of the program numbers.) Some of the scores use General MIDI program numbers but others may give unplanned results based on what synth you are using.

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