Contemporary Russian piano composers and Agentic AI

The title of this post makes no sense until I explain that it names the two arenas I have been spending my time in over the past month, taking a vacation from MindBlog posts.  (I have missed sharing what I find interesting in such posts with my imaginary audience.  My brain needs to imagine being seen, regardless of whether or not that is the case. Even though the analytics show hundreds of clicks or engagements, who knows how many of those are bots or humans?  I seldom receive feedback or comment. Anyway,  you might take this post as being an 84 year old's 2006 style Blogger version of a 14-29 year old generation Z  person posting clips of encounters in daily life on tik tok, X, instagram, etc.)

Much of my recent attention has been diverted to obtaining PDFs of music scores written by contemporary Russian piano composers who continue the styles of their late 19th and early 20 century Russian predecessors. 

The youtube video below presents the piano piece 'Reflection' by Gennady Lukinykh, and is one example of the sort of music I have been finding and then playing for enjoyment on my Steinway B.  According to Google, Gennady Lukinykh (b. 1965) is a composer, jazz pianist, arranger, member of the Russian Musical Union, winner of the Golden diploma VII Slavic music forum Golden knight, and the laureate of International and All-Russian competitions. 
 

 

If you click on this video and listen to it,  you will observe the video move through a series of clips of the piano sheet music score matching the audio being heard.  

I decided to grab (with cntrl-shift-4) the portion of the youtube browser window containing these sheet music clips as each appeared,  and then assemble them into a PDF of the sheet music that could then be displayed on my 13" M2 iPad Pro by the ForScore app which is widely used by performing instrumentalists. 

I wondered if the steps of grabbing the sheet music clips and concatenating them into a PDF of the resulting score might be more rapidly carried out by designing a "skill' in Claude Cowork.  

To make a long story short, the answer was a no (on grabbing the sheet music clips. I had to do that manually) and a yes (on reaching into a folder (named SheetMusicFromYouTube)  containing the sequenced 9 sheet shots (in .png format) from the 'Reflection' piece above, converting each to PDF format, and then assembling these PDFs into a final document after requesting input of the desired title.

So, I'm now using this Claude cowork skill, called "sheet-music-PDF-assembler" to generate further scores to enjoy playing through.  I'm going to perform a few of these pieces for the next ~bi-monthly gathering of retired Univ. of Texas piano faculty members and Austin piano teachers.