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** [http://www.freesheetmusic.net/ Free Sheet Music.net] — vast amounts of sheet music locked up in .pdf format | ** [http://www.freesheetmusic.net/ Free Sheet Music.net] — vast amounts of sheet music locked up in .pdf format | ||
** [http://www.fortenotation.com/en/free-sheet-music/ Forte Notation Free Sheet Music] — A selection of sheet music for free download. You can select different pieces of the most common classical composers (Bach, Mozart, Schubert etc.) | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:14, 14 July 2014
Current Sheet Music Formats
There are various different ways to represent a piece of Sheet Music on the web.
This page serves to document the current list of sheet music formats and metadata as background research for the development of a sheet music microformat. -Barnaby Walters
Contributors
Templated off review-formats.
- Barnaby Walters
See Also
Widely Used Formats
Semantic Formats
ABC
A text based notation format originally designed for the notation of traditional music. It has become extremely widespread.
- http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1
- More Reference: http://abcnotation.com/learn
- Data Stored
- Actual Tune
- ID (X:, only relevant when the tune is stored as part of a multi-tune book)
- Title (T:)
- Composer (C:)
- Various Musical Attributes
- Key
- Meter
- Default Note Length
- Tempo
- Parts
- Rhythm (e.g. a tune in 3/4 can be played with various different rhythms)
- Other Metadata
- Book
- Area of Origin
- Notes
- Transcriptor
- Groups
- History
- Deployed in the Wild
- The Session — Huge repo of trad. Irish (+ all gaelic, some English) traditional music. Served as ABC and PNG
- ABC Notation Website
- List of other websites serving ABC tunes — Huge list of other abc sites
- Web-wide abc tune search
- WPC Gurdy Sheet Music Database — Barnaby Walters' hurdy gurdy sheet music DB.
MusicXML
An XML based notation format
- Spec: http://www.makemusic.com/musicxml/specification
- More Reference: http://www.makemusic.com/musicxml
- Data Stored
- Deployed in the Wild
- http://www.makemusic.com/musicxml/music — List of MusicXML repos on the web
Non-Semantic Formats
These are the formats that would benefit most from a microformat — giving them the same metadata that can be found in more semantic notation formats.
Tunes are commonly stored as PDFs.
- Examples in the Wild
- Free Sheet Music.net — vast amounts of sheet music locked up in .pdf format
- Forte Notation Free Sheet Music — A selection of sheet music for free download. You can select different pieces of the most common classical composers (Bach, Mozart, Schubert etc.)
Images
Tunes are commonly stored as images
- Examples in the wild