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How do you acquire sheet music?

There're IMSLP and musescore, but many things are just not there.

Bonus points if you know anything with xenharmonic/microtonal music well-represented.

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[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

[music name] filetype:pdf

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have recently found some stuff on free-scores.com but it was mostly old, popular stuff like bachs violin solos.

Edit: forgot the - in the address

[–] WillRegex@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get a "this domain is for sale" from that link

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Very sorry, I should have checked it again: https://www.free-scores.com

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yea, It's dead...

[–] illyria817@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

myanonamouse has sheet music

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alas, their IP requirements are too much for me.

Anyway, is there much of xenharmonic sheet music there? Take, for example, Easley Blackwood (but not his books).

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you know a bit of web programming you can grab sheet music straight from the code in musescore when you inspect element (albeit low quality). It's been a while since I discovered this and did it so I don't recall how exactly to do so but it wasn't too tricky

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Downloading there is straightforward: look at network requests, redownload svg's of individual pages with wget and reassemble those into a pdf. I did that today and the resulting quality wasn't exactly low - though I didn't examine it too closely. Readability was perfect.

Probably could be automated, but I'm not bothered enough to do so yet.

Yeah that's what I did without the wget part. Thanks for explaining!