How do I use Nkoda to read music scores?
Nkoda is a digital music score collection that provides access to copyrighted scores from publishers including Boosey & Hawkes, Bärenreiter, Ricordi, and many more.
Using Nkoda's score reader app for Apple, Android, or Windows, you can mark up a score or part from the collection and share your work with others. You can also upload PDFs of your own scores for use in the score reader. All SU faculty, staff and students may use Nkoda.
Frequently Asked Questions
After you download and install the app for your device:
- Go to Get Started and choose "Sign up with an institution."
- Enter Shenandoah under "Find your institution."
- Enter your name and your SU email address, and select "Sign Up."
- Log in with your SU network credentials.
- You'll be prompted to continue as a member of Shenandoah University. Select "Yes."
Once you have set up your account, you can log into the app on any device.
First, choose Search in the menu bar.
- Find: Locate a specific score by filtering the library first by composer/artist, and then by title.
- Explore: Search by keyword, then filter through results using Titles, Artists, Editions, or Playlists created by other users.
- Index: Browse an A-Z list of all the artists, composers and publisher in nkoda.
Once you have installed the app, logged in with your account, and located a score your want to use (see above):
Tap on an edition to view the scores and parts available, and tap on a part to open it in nkoda. The scores you open from the nkoda library will appear in your Recently Played section in My Library.
To open scores saved to your library, select My Library from the menu bar. Tap the part you would like to open. Once the score is opened, you will then be able to navigate through the score and make annotations.
Even if you have installed the app on more than one device, you can view content on only one device at a time.
Neither printing scores nor downloading them to PDFs is allowed in nkoda, but you can save scores in the app for offline use when you don’t have access to the internet.
Other Nkoda features include:
- Creating playlists of scores
- Annotating scores and sharing annotations
- Performance and offline modes
- Uploading your own sheet music