iPad Pro 13 inch M4 Pro for reading music?

[Marzzz]

iPad Pro works well for sheet music, I understand there is even a bluetooth enabled pedal for turning pages.

 

[IAmStumped]

iPad Pro works well for sheet music, I understand there is even a bluetooth enabled pedal for turning pages.

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I'm surprised that big-time artists like Yuja Wang are using music on stage. I remember the days when such a thing would have been completely frowned upon.

 

[Euroamerican]

I use the 10.9 Air 4th Gen for looking at sheet music while playing guitar and for running Fender Play lessons, and I wish I had more screen space. I run the tablet in landscape orientation. Lots of dragging the image up and down!

I should try portrait orientation, but i cannot recall why i haven't so far. Crazy....

Anyway, I'd love to have a larger iPad screen for the purpose of looking at conventional sheet music PDFs, ideally full screen...

 

[Marzzz]

I'm surprised that big-time artists like Yuja Wang are using music on stage. I remember the days when such a thing would have been completely frowned upon.

I am no expert on her playing habits, but it seems she uses it for encores or other situations where she picks a piece to play on a whim. I understand she has performed entire (solo) concerts where she left the music selection up in the air until the last moment, and that page of the program would literally be blank. I have also seen this comment elsewhere:

Throughout the 20th century and right up to the present, as contemporary music has become less conventionally melodic or harmonic, more complex and harmonically dense, and frequently atonal, it has become more common for musicians, including soloists, however photographic their memories, to play with the printed music.

I would also love to know how she plays in 6-inch spiked heels, but I understand any questions regarding her attire, including shoes, pisses her off...

 

[IAmStumped]

I am no expert on her playing habits, but it seems she uses it for encores or other situations where she picks a piece to play on a whim. I understand she has performed entire (solo) concerts where she left the music selection up in the air until the last moment, and that page of the program would literally be blank. I have also seen this comment elsewhere:

Throughout the 20th century and right up to the present, as contemporary music has become less conventionally melodic or harmonic, more complex and harmonically dense, and frequently atonal, it has become more common for musicians, including soloists, however photographic their memories, to play with the printed music.

I would also love to know how she plays in 6-inch spiked heels, but I understand any questions regarding her attire, including shoes, pisses her off...

Yes, that's a good point. While I still think playing from memory should be the norm, those are both very good instances where not doing so would be understandable.