Sheet music resources (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do you acquire sheet music?

There're IMSLP and musescore, but many things are just not there.

Bonus points if you know anything with xenharmonic/microtonal music well-represented.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

[music name] filetype:pdf

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have recently found some stuff on free-scores.com but it was mostly old, popular stuff like bachs violin solos.

Edit: forgot the - in the address

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I get a "this domain is for sale" from that link

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Very sorry, I should have checked it again: https://www.free-scores.com

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yea, It's dead...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

myanonamouse has sheet music

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Alas, their IP requirements are too much for me.

Anyway, is there much of xenharmonic sheet music there? Take, for example, Easley Blackwood (but not his books).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you know a bit of web programming you can grab sheet music straight from the code in musescore when you inspect element (albeit low quality). It's been a while since I discovered this and did it so I don't recall how exactly to do so but it wasn't too tricky

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Downloading there is straightforward: look at network requests, redownload svg's of individual pages with wget and reassemble those into a pdf. I did that today and the resulting quality wasn't exactly low - though I didn't examine it too closely. Readability was perfect.

Probably could be automated, but I'm not bothered enough to do so yet.