Score

At the heart of fourscoreandmore is the musical “score” (aka “symbolic data” aka “sheet music”). In our case, the focus is on digital encodings of scores such that we can make use of helpful modern functionality. One key priority of fourscoreandmore has been to make more digital scores, by more composers, more easily accessible.

In the spirit of open scores, this site serves to provide easy overviews and direct download to individual files without any login and certainly without payment. It’s hard to be more open than that!

So far, we’re prioritising our “own” collections here, including those we’ve built in partnership with OpenScore. This may expand in future to include more of an entry point to others’ collection. For now we highlight just two exceptional cases.

Click on the following links for … :

Our projects:

• … more on the OpenScore collections
• … direct access to the OpenScore Lieder corpus collection
• … direct access to the (not OpenScore) Species Corpus.

Others’, highly relevant projects:

• … Craig Sapp’s ‘Verovio Humdrum Viewer’ which includes many of the corpora produced in this format.
• … The ‘RicercarDataLab’ notable collection of Renaissance scores, including rich metadata, search functionality, and direct file download.