Recorder Fingering vs MuSA_RT

Recorder Fingering is an interactive fingering chart for recorders. It lists basic fingerings, alternate fingerings and trill fingerings. The current version supports Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass recorders using the Baroque (aka English) fingering system. (This is the most common recorder fingering system in use today.) To use the app, you first select a recorder type. Then select a note by touching and dragging over the staff and/or hitting the arrows. For chromatics you must use the arrows. Then for each note you can touch a button for the basic, alternate or trill fingerings. Beginner players will find this app useful for the basic fingerings. Intermediate and advanced players will find it useful for the alternate and trill fingerings. The alternate fingerings are great for helping you through technically challenging passages.

MuSA_RT applies music analysis algorithms rooted in Elaine Chew’s Spiral Array model of tonality, which also provides the 3D geometry for the visualization space. The app analyzes the audio signal received from a microphone to determine pitch names, maintain short term and longterm tonal context trackers, each a Center of Effect (CE), and compute the closest triads (3-note chords) and keys as the music unfolds in performance. The 3D view presents a graphical representations of these tonal entities in context, smoothly rotating the virtual camera to provide an unobstructed view of the current information. These graphics can also be visualized in an experimental Augmented Reality mode on compatible devices.