Following the gradual redundancy of physical documents, having to carry around heavy music scores and folders have become an inconvenient way around studying and playing music. Legato is a musician’s survival-kit in the form of a mobile application that doesn’t require any extra carrying other than your mobile phone that’s always with you, featuring a built-in tuner, metronome, dictionary, score library/viewer and background information on the composers and pieces.
Following the gradual redundancy of physical documents, having to carry around heavy music scores and folders have become an inconvenient way around studying and playing music. Legato is a musician’s survival-kit in the form of a mobile application that doesn’t require any extra carrying other than your mobile phone that’s always with you, featuring a built-in tuner, metronome, dictionary, score library/viewer and background information on the composers and pieces.
Primarily developed as a digital score folder, Legato is a by-product of my personal experiences of having left home to the UK as an international student and hence only being able to play the piano on a whim in public spaces. In these cases, I often had to rely on browsing for scores on my mobile phone whenever I got the chance to practice on a public piano, struggling and squinting my eyes in order to read a tiny .pdf score off my phone screen, then needing to pause awkwardly between the same piece as I clumsily flip the pages of my score on screen.
This application is targeted to mature (non-beginner) to professional musicians. As such, the design of Legato takes reference from one of the most well-known publishers of classical music scores, G. Henle Verlag, by applying its book cover layout and typeface used, a look recognizable to classical musicians, within a digital medium, holistically representing the migration from print to screen.
