Jersey Ray
2nd June 2007, 8.01 pm
Hey All,
PDF files of public domain music on the net are nothing new, but I recently found this website, the international music score library project, that I like a lot:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
they use the "wiki" format to make it easy to search, and all the stuff is public domain... in Canada ... , a place with somewhat looser standards for public domain status than the USA or the EU (wink wink). This is convenient for a number of works composed in the 1920's and 1930's, eh?
It is well organized and not overrrun with ads, so check it out if you are looking for scores.
And in honor of Elgar's birthday today (June 2), try your hand at the Salut d'Amour:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Salut_d%27Amour_Op._12_%28Elgar%2C_Edward%29
a nice 19th century style parlor piece that makes a good exercise for the tapper. The left hand piano part is all bass-chord, so even if you don't get the exact voicing, you should be able to make a nice arrangement, whatever your tuning. The right hand part need only be the melody. This same way of reducing the score to bass-chord-melody works very well on the other instrument I play these days.
And this is a much more interesting piece than Elgar's greatest hit, that everybody is doing the graduation shuffle to, this time of year:)
JR
PDF files of public domain music on the net are nothing new, but I recently found this website, the international music score library project, that I like a lot:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
they use the "wiki" format to make it easy to search, and all the stuff is public domain... in Canada ... , a place with somewhat looser standards for public domain status than the USA or the EU (wink wink). This is convenient for a number of works composed in the 1920's and 1930's, eh?
It is well organized and not overrrun with ads, so check it out if you are looking for scores.
And in honor of Elgar's birthday today (June 2), try your hand at the Salut d'Amour:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Salut_d%27Amour_Op._12_%28Elgar%2C_Edward%29
a nice 19th century style parlor piece that makes a good exercise for the tapper. The left hand piano part is all bass-chord, so even if you don't get the exact voicing, you should be able to make a nice arrangement, whatever your tuning. The right hand part need only be the melody. This same way of reducing the score to bass-chord-melody works very well on the other instrument I play these days.
And this is a much more interesting piece than Elgar's greatest hit, that everybody is doing the graduation shuffle to, this time of year:)
JR