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 a few exceptional cases.

OpenScore

• About the OpenScore collections
  • Lieder corpus: Search, sort, and direct downloads
  • String Quartets: Search, sort, and direct downloads
• Cont.

Species Counterpoint

• About the Species Corpus. Also provided (via that page):
  • Whole Part (I, II, III)
    • Direct download in multiple formats.
  • Individual figures:
    • Search and sort table summary.
    • Download any in either mxl or krn format
      • View and interact with online using Verovio Humdrum Viewer (VHV)

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.

Tl;dr

Still confused? In short, this page is a sign-posting service to accessible music score data. this listings include those corpora I/we made, and those by others.

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