When I asked about this on the above GitHub threads, they claimed the rights holders forbid them from allowing creative-commons and similarly freely licensed songs on the same site, other than PD, which also is clearly nonsense (they already have CC options for scores, just not for songs those scores are based on, it doesn't make any sense for the latter to be forbidden). " are obviously nonsense I used to have a couple scores that were arrangements of indie game music with CC-like licensing that allows this kind of usage on there, but I took everything down because I do not want to support such policies and I consider it useless if people have to pay to download my score and Sony or Alfred Music get the money, not the actual composer. have recently taken to sending vague and rather unprofessional DMCA-style threats to developers of scripts that allow you to bypass those download restrictions:Ĭlaims like "All not Public domain content on is licensed by major music publishers (Alfred, EMI, Sony, etc.). This now puts hundreds of thousands of songs behind a paywall regardless of whether they should be or not. mostly classical/old music, and only inconsistently at that). All of the user-uploaded back catalog of scores, which was previously freely available, was recategorized as non-free after this change and thus requiring a Pro subscription to download, except for known public domain source songs (i.e. Want to publish a score for an indie song? Tough luck, people will have to pay money to download it, and none of that money will go to the artist. They have no provision for creative commons and other similarly licensed songs (not scores, they do have that) - everything falls into either original/PD, or collecting and sending Pro fees to collection agencies that have no right to such royalties. They claim this is in order to pay royalties to rights holders (which in practice means a few large multinational sheet music publishers), but do this for every score, regardless of whether the composers are signed to such companies at all. You need an account to be able to download anything, and you need a pro subscription to be able to download anything that isn't either "original" or "based on a public-domain work". They have since taken a very anti-community copyright approach, where they lock all score downloads by default. the online sheet music repository is related to the former, but was sold to Ultimate Guitar. It's an excellent notation app, and getting better, especially lately with Tantacrul's help. MuseScore the open source music notation app, hosted at, is what this is about. One of the largest catalogs of sheet music, which can be browsed by instrument (piano, trumpet, violin, percussion, flute, etc.) and played immediately from the site with the embedded player.Īdd pieces of sheet music you really enjoy to Favorites to get quick access to those scores, and learn to play them!ĭownload and keep your favorite scores with you offline.Just a reminder that, confusingly, there are two MuseScores. MuseScore allows you to create, play and print beautiful sheet music.
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