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I saw this tweet other day from @katiesw1 where she discussed her choices for the top iPad apps for music teachers.  
Her list included:
 
To me, her list reminds me of the days of technology in music education when most of the discussion surrounded keyboards, synthesizers, and music notation programs.
 
I use my iPad differently from others, I think.  Here are three of my top iPad apps for the choral director.  I'll add more in a later post.
 
1.  GoodReader – everyone has this, I bet.  I use it to store/view PDF's on my ipad.  In recent days, I have used it to:
a.  open the Presbyterian USA hymnal I scanned and use in church nearly every Sunday.
b.  open scores I download from CPDL and IMSLP for study and perusal
c.  open choral scores that I scanned from my personal library for study and perusal
[i'm not sure when the price climbed to 5.49 – i think i got this app for free or .99]
 
2.  Nightstand.Moderno – One of my rehearsal rooms doesn't have a clock.  Another doesn't have an accurate clock.  I need an accurate time piece that allows me to start and end on time.  This app never fails me.
 
3.  Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD – It certainly is easy to cary my iPad into a concert and put it on a music stand.  From there, I give myself (and/or my choir) the pitch and go . . . 
 
OK, iPad users, what are your top three for the choral conductor?? 

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  2. For those who have access, the Naxos Music Library is an invaluable resource for listening to scores. In addition to the Naxos catalogue, it also includes the entire BIS and Chandos catalogues. John Eliot Gardiner’s SDG catalogue is also available. There isn’t an iPad app, per se, but the iPhone app does work on iPad.

  3. Thanks for your list, Philip. You had already clued me in to “GoodReader” earlier, so I now use it immediately for reading Choral Journal each month. Since using “GoodReader”, I now actually read the CJ in the month it comes out, and I am amazed at how it sharpens my focus to the various topics in each issue (as opposed to letting the CJs pile up, and then reading through them at one block of time). I also am using “Tonara” for a few scores in order to begin feeling comfortable with a technology that follows along with the sound being produced. I know that I will be conducting soon from my Ipad, so I am trying to “wade in” now at my own pace, and “Tonara” is what I am using to get my feet wet in this new process. You will recall that “Tonara” is the score reader that turns the page at the right time when it hears the music. Finally, I continue to be a big fan of “Pandora”, and as surprising as it may be, lots of folks don’t know about the mobile app for “Pandora.” I love the amount of choral music that some radio stations play during this season, but sometimes it gets a bit much. Pandora is my solution to controlling the situation….I simply create a “medieval choral Christmas” station, and all is good.

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