How to Use This Website

While there are several websites that offer music for download and performance, this website will combine all of the services offered by these sites as well as hyper-linked information about the music and its history and traditions. MP3 and Adobe Acrobat forms are to be found here and elsewhere. What is new here is the addition of MusicXML files that will enable anyone to import the edition into a wide number of music notation programs. From these performance-ready editions can be readily made, thus repeating the nineteenth-century practice of preparing instrumentations of music based on the local resources.

For a list of music notation programs that can "read" MusicXML, please visit recordare.com. The least expensive solution for reading and importing MusicXML may be MakeMusic's NotePad; however, the modern band scores will likely be too large for NotePad to handle them. If you have an older version of some of these applications, you may receive error notations due to the fact that these examples are all made using MusicXML 2.0. You will still have a usable score. Simply, some of the refinements such as page headers may need some attention. Also, SIBELIUS may not correctly interpret tremolos or a few other notational niceties. You will need to "translate" these into a "Sibelius" equivalent. All of the scores are prepared using the latest version of FINALE as it is known to produce more and better MusicXML data than any other software. The MusicXML files are generated by Recordare's own DOLET plugin for FINALE.