What is
Musescore and how does it compare to Sheet
Music International?
Musescore
is a free music engraving program. They
house a library of sheet music their members
have arranged, some of it is for sale and some
of it is free to download to members that pay
afee. It is designed mainly for
composers and arrangers.
SheetMusicPlus
Sheet
Music Plus is a repository of music for
sale. It contains formally published
material, popular songs arrangements and works
people write that they would like to receive
payment for. It does not offer music
free of charge. It features music for
sale.
Sheet Music International is a repository of
public domain music.
Music
Notes is a website where individuals
contribute their own arrangements, some of
which they wish to sell. If you look up
Beethoven Symphony 7 for example it will offer
to sell you a flute trio of the
theme.
What is
Free-Scores and how does it compare to Sheet
Music International?
Free-Scores offers arrangements of
works. It is somewhat clumsy to find
what you are looking for and has a limited
amount of choices. If you look up
Beethoven Symphony 1 for example you will be
offered: Themes from Symphonies 1--9 for Alto
Sax or Clarinet, Symphony 8 for piano et
What is
the Mutopia Project and how does it compare to
Sheet Music International?
The Mutopia Project is relatively small with a
couple thousand works. It offersmixed
genres. Sheet Music International is a
massive collection of music housing music of
the worlds greatest composers through the
centuries.
Walter
Cosand offers one of the largest collections
of free piano music in the world.
Compiled by my friend Dr. Walter Cosand
http://waltercosand.com/cosandscores
How does this compare to Sheet Music
International. Sheet Music International
contains the piano music for most of these
works as well as orchestral
accompaniments.
The New
York Philharmonic is an online reference
library where you can view parts to individual
works for scholary work, view bowings
etc. It does not offer the ability to
download and print parts. Site tends to
be heavily watermarked from time to time as
well to prevent people from downloading
music.
JW
Pepper is a music publisher much like Lucks
music but they have a large selection of
educational material and band arrangements as
well. Unline Sheet Music International,
their music is mainly available for purchase
only.
Lucks
Music is a publisher of orchestral
music. Both music for purchase and music
for rent. It is a great resource but the
music is not free.
American
European Music specializes in rental
music. It is somewhat challenging to
work with in that it requires you to have an
ASCAP or BMI license before they will give you
a quote. THey do not advertise prices
and charge each individual differently based
on information they collect about the end user
such as size of the group, average ticket
price, company gross income, how many con
Schirmer
is a large music publisher. Their rental
music is available through Zinfonia.com
online. Thery have a large selection of
music, but none if free.
CHURCH MUSIC AND HYMNS WEBSITES
What is
Hymnary.org and how does it compare to Sheet
Music International Hymn collection?
Hymnary.org is a comprehensive indes of hymns
and hymnals. It also contains hymn
arrangements that can be purchased.
What is
the open Hymnal website and how does it
compare to Sheet Music
International? Very nice well
organized collection but not huge. It
also has section laid out in hymnal style with
groups of songs in a .pdf
Sheet Music International Hymns folder has a
somewhat different layout and is a much larger
collection. Both offer text, sheet music
and are alphabetically
Timeless
truths is a website with a nice collection of
hymns. Some hymns have Russian, Englith
and German Texts. It is laid out
alphabetically.
Sheet
Music International includes most of these
hymns along with hymns from hundreds of other
hymnals. Different layout but both work
well.
Nicely
alphabetically laid out collection of
hymns. Clean .pdfs in hymnal format free
to download. Also listed by Tune and
list of songs for Children.
Sheet Music International Hymns has a
different structure but lays out hymns
alphabetically. Each hymn folder
contains notated music, and where available
separate text, text with music.
