Introduction

What

A sheet music reader is a program for presenting a digitized music score for someone to play it, facilitating the work of turning the pages in longer performings, a parallel task which may become an annoying source of trouble.

Why

In some cases, the sheets simply get willingness to go flying around and away from the musician's sigth, usually with the help of wind. In other cases, the music simply does not have enough pauses that allow the musician to take one arm off his instrument and quickly turn the page manually.

How

Automating the task of turning pages is done with a small computer: a tablet or preferably an e-reader. But the last one is primarily designed for reading books, so in order to turn your e-book reader into an e-part reader... that's where this program fits.

Sofware Specification

E-part software features:

1. Collect paths for PDF-files containing music scores and keep them organized in playlists.

2. For each music (PDF-file), define the scrolling positions where to stop and the time it should be parked there during the musical interpretation.

3. For playing the music, the page zoom fits the width, and all pages are concatenated in a large continuous scroll up to down. The page turning transition is done dividing the screen horizontally in two: the top part shows the new park-position of the score and the bottom shows the end of the previous one. As long as the pages layout are independent from the screen layout, the user should find the best way to read the music by configuring portrait or landscape mode for rendering.

4. During the play along, the user may advance or rewind park-positions with specific small on-screen buttons (rewind/forward) or with pgUp/pgDwn signalling. And also, there are specific buttom to stop/resume the playing and a scrollbar to put the park-position cursor in any point of the music.