h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Time for another free research site, and today it's the International Music Score Library Project.

http://imslp.org/

Now, I know nothing whatsoever about this subject. Cricket scores, yes - music scores, no. So I can't really say a lot about what you'll find here.

It says on the front page that you find Bruhns’s organ works, and I'm very glad that it does, too

But I hope you find this useful. Let me know if you do

"...you find Bruhns’s organ works, and I'm very glad that it does, too"

It's like accidently bumping into an old friend, jokes that stand the test of time.

Listening to the 4th movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony under the headphones. This site is a treasure chest.

I am happily downloading scores of scores.

Just found Vaughn-Williams' Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, but I have to save it till tonight because people keep walking in to the room and asking me trivial things.

I found some nice piano music by Bartok.

I can't remember who wrote the Symphony in C. The Great Symphony, you know, that guy...

You mean the Schubert 9th?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyw5OHUDHh4

Schubert! Yes. Thank you.

The VW Tallis is one of my favourites too.

That's the music, not the people carrier

I prefer Tallis to VW any day. Lamentations of Jeremiah... Spem in Alium... I could go on, as Tallis did in Spem in Alium.

I have a CD of songs by Thomas Tallis, and quite agree -- Lamentations of Jeremiah is a gorgeous piece.

It's good to sing too.

Deb

[Amy P]

I've used imslp a lot, mainly for viol music (that's my main thing, when I'm not in my ukulele band). Truly magnificent. I download the score and depending what shape it's in either print it straight out for us to play or open it in Sibelius and edit it. Editing generally entails some of the following: changing the clefs, changing the time signature, extracting parts from the score, correcting dubious editorial suggestions, changing the key (transposing).

Sibelius is a game-changing program for musicians, particularly composers. They now no longer need copyists to make legible scores and extract parts. Most of the editorial changes listed above are pretty well instant now, but would have taken hours a few decades back. It is in equal measure exceptionally brilliant and subcutaneously infuriating...

This rant will now continue in my own journal, unhelpfully hidden under 'No NaJoPoMo 2013 here'.