It was fun to access the Take 6 archive and see the handwritten notes of songs collected by people like the composer George Butterworth. A resource I came across recently is the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Some of my favorite composers composed, not unsurprisingly, using folk songs collected in the British Isles: Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and so on. The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) has scanned versions of thousands of public domain music scores and recorded performances in the Petrucci Music Library. Classical Musicīooklist’s Point of Reference blog recently highlighted an interesting project started by a student to digitize old classical music scores. As someone who grew up in Ann Arbor listening to the U of M Glee Club and the Friars, it was fun to hear old versions of Ann Arbor Days and the Yellow and the Blue. The Jack Baird Music Library, hosted by the Barbershop Harmony Society, is a great collection of MP3 music files of historic barbershop performances. Shows like The Sing Off have done a great job of introducing people to a cappella music who may not have had the opportunity to see it before. You can find the music to sing Blue Juniata among others. For example, we loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and the stories of Pa playing fiddle tunes. Not only it is (personally) fascinating to see the tunes and music that were printed during the American Civil War and other important periods, but it’s fun to find songs that are referenced but not song. The Library of Congress’ American Memory site has an incredible digital library of public domain song sheets. It’s also typical of the Canada penchant for providing tidy retribution in ballads. Note: This has got to be the only version of this song that plugs life jackets. One of my favorites was this note appended to a version of The Golden Vanity (good song about the sinking of a Turkish ship off the Low Country) that pokes fun at the safety concerns of Canadians:įrom Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick, Creighton Collected from Angelo Dorman (between 19). The music has been contributed with all sorts of extra metadata about who sang it or its appearance in a particular film or slight variations in verses. Actually, my first stop was a mirror site that made it easy to search and browse music. The evening song book is a binder that I have created over the years with songs from sites like the Mudcat traditional music site. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. Our kids have been scarred by my renditions of a variety of folk songs, sea shanties, military ditties and other songs their peers have almost certainly never had to sit through! One of the great pleasures I have is coming across a digital repository of music that allows me to try something new. In 20072015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. Use / Value is the description of what the data is used for in the API.Singing at bed time is a ritual in our house. The first edition of Duchambge’s Guitare, published by Launer. Browse scores Composers All people Nationality Time period Instrumentation/Genre by Melody WIMA collection IMSLP/Petrucci. Its printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, is this librarys namesake. The logo is a capital letter A, taken from the very first press-printed book of polyphonic music, theHarmonice Musices Odhecaton, published in 1501. 4 June 2021 - 182,000 works have scores or parts on Petrucci Music Library. IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. 21 June 2021 - 183,000 works have scores or parts on Petrucci Music Library. You can check what kind of data they return in the return codeembeds up in the GET Works section. 23 June 2021 - IMSLP now has 68,000 recordings. Package Object ID is the ID corresponding to the information that the package will return to you based on the function you're using. You'll probably never have to use it, unless you're trying to tweak this package. The following tables contain the tags for the API and Package JSON.ĪPI Object ID is the ID corresponding to certain information served directly from ISMLP.
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