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The Petrucci Music Library

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Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Best site ever if you're a classical musician!

Yes it is, or even if you're just a classical music fan who likes to listen while following along with the score.

I contribute $2 USD a month to Petrucci/IMSLP for the same reason I contribute $3 a month to Wikipedia and $11 a month to WNYC: for the greater good of human civilization.

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Dream Theater fans will note that this is Ottaviano, not John Petrucci. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Petrucci

Link on Ottaviano Petrucci

“He was born in Fossombrone. Around 1490 he went to Venice to learn the art of printing. [...] Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottaviano_Petrucci

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Dream Theater fans will note that this is Ottaviano, not John Petrucci. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Petrucci

In related news: Portnoy's Complaint isn't about too many time signatures in a song.

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Best site ever if you're a classical musician!

Yes it is, or even if you're just a classical music fan who likes to listen while following along with the score. I contribute $2 USD a month to Petrucci/IMSLP for the same reason I contribute $3 a month to Wikipedia and $11 a month to WNYC: for the greater good of human civilization.

I too contribute monthly to Petrucci. Apart from downloading the scores of piano pieces I want to play (they offer a wide set of arrangements for all but the most obscure pieces), I have discovered several hidden gem in their library, which grows more and more every time I check!

Before Petrucci, I used to be a regular user/contributor of the Mutopia project [1]. Its purpose is to provide Lilypond [2] source files for scores: this allows users to create MIDI files or re-create PDF files using custom page layouts/line breaks/etc. These features are handy, but creating a Lilypond file from a score is much more time-consuming than simply scanning it and uploading to Petrucci. (Each of Mozart's and Haydn's string quartet I uploaded took me ~2 weeks of work.)

[1]: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/

[2]: https://lilypond.org/

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Dream Theater fans will note that this is Ottaviano, not John Petrucci. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Petrucci

Link on Ottaviano Petrucci “He was born in Fossombrone. Around 1490 he went to Venice to learn the art of printing. [...] Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font, and he did in fact print the first book of polyphony using movable type.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottaviano_Petrucci

Amazing! I would have never expected to read about Fossombrone in HN!!! (I lived in Fano, nearby, for 3 years.)

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Best site ever if you're a classical musician!

Yes it is, or even if you're just a classical music fan who likes to listen while following along with the score. I contribute $2 USD a month to Petrucci/IMSLP for the same reason I contribute $3 a month to Wikipedia and $11 a month to WNYC: for the greater good of human civilization.

i don't work for any of these sites but i wanted to say thank you, just as a human

Re: The Petrucci Music Library

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Looking at composer bibliographies it's evident that there are masses of way-out-of-copyright scores which don't see the light of day. Many of these are secreted away in libraries and collections. If you have use of such a resource, uploading some of these scores to online libraries like the Petrucci helps preserve the more recondite creative work of past generations for musicians and (hence) listeners world wide to enjoy. Most Petrucci users will have made their own discoveries of music they would likely never have encountered otherwise.
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