sheet-music-examples

Sheet Music Examples

Various examples of how sites present and format 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

• Barnaby Walters

See Also

• sheet-music-formats

Examples

Colares has documented a bunch of sheet music/tab/lyrics examples here. TODO: highlight some interesting points from some of them here.

Ukulele-Tabs.com

• tab example

There are some really interesting UI elements here, including chord diagrams on hover and a configurable, if a little dumb, autoscroll.

The Session

Jeremy Keith's Irish traditional music library. Uses ABC as the primary notation storage format (see sheet-music-formats).

• Homepage
• Example Tune

• Metadata
  • Stored in HTML
    • Title
    • Rhythm (e.g. 'reel')
    • Key Signature
    • Note: Composer not stored as all tunes are assumed to be traditional
  • Stored in the tune
    • Title
    • Meter
    • Default Note Length
    • Rhythm
    • Key Signature
• Representations Offered
  • ABC (Text on a HTML page)
  • Image (GIF)

WaterPigs Hurdy Gurdy Sheet Music Library

Barnaby Walters' Hurdy Gurdy Sheet Music database.

• Homepage
• Example Tune 'Virgo Spendens'

• Metadata
  • Stored in HTML
    • Title
    • Composer
    • Notes
    • Key Signature
    • Time Signature
  • Stored in the tune
    • Title
    • Composer
    • Meter
    • Default Note Length
    • Rhythm
    • Key Signature
    • Notes
• Representations Offered
  • ABC (Text on a HTML page)
  • Lyrics (separate to music) as text on a HTML page
  • SVG (via abcjs javascript plugin) embedded in the web page.