vindir / awesome-sheet-music

A curated list of open source internet resources for musicians and computer-aided musicology.

Awesome sheet music

A curated list of open source internet resources for musicians and computer-aided musicology.

ABC Music Notation

Title	Description
ABC Music Notation Standard	This is my edition of the ABC music notation standard version 2.1 (Dec. 2011)
ABC Notation HTML5 Editor	This is an online abc notattion edition with live preview. Uses abcjs

Ear Training

Title	Description
birdears	Functional ear taining for musicians.
GNU Solfege	Software for musical auditive training.

Software

Title	Description
musescore	Sheet music editor and online community.
lilypond	Professional sheet music engraving.
TuxGuitar	Tablature Editor for Linux.
Frescobaldi	LilyPond sheet music text editor.
Denemo	Free and Open Source music Notation Editor.
LMMS	Let's Make Music with a Free, cross-platform tool for your computer. DAW software for and community of music creators.
sox SOund eXchange	SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.
TiMidity++	TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.
Ardour	Digital Audio Workstation. Ardour: Record, Edit, and Mix.

sonic visualizer

vamp-plugins

Tuners

Title	Description
lingot	Lingot Is Not a Guitar-Only Tuner is an instrument tuner for pc. Uses microphone.

Metronomes

Title	Description
gtick	Metronome

Theory

Websites

Title	Description
A Jazz Improvisation Primer	by Marc Sabatella. About Jazz Improvisation
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People	by Toby W. Rush; Musical theory pages.
Music and Audio Tutorials at Tuts+	Some very good music theory tutorials.

E-Books

Communities

Title	Description
Computer-aided Musicology on Discord	This lists server on Discord
music on StackExchange	music on StackExchange.

Cheatsheets

Sheet music collections / online libraries

Classical and Early music

Title	Description
International Music Score Library Project	Petrucci Music Library contains classical works under public domain in PDF. IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project.

Folk music

Title	Description
The Session	Site with thousands of ABC tunes from the rich Irish musical tradition.

Resources

Miscellaneous

Title	Description
Iacchus' sheet music stuff	Repository on GitHub with some resources collected by me.

Linux/Tricks

Here goes a spellbook for linux musicians.

Description	Command	Depends on
A4 tuning fork diapason	play -n synth sin A4	sox
Recording mp3 CTRL+C) to stop	sox -t alsa default -b 32 -r 192000 recording.mp3 silence 1 0.1 5% 1 1.0 5%	sox
Playing MIDI file	timidity filename.mid	timidity++
Convert PDF to images	convert -density 300 a.pdf -resize 25% a.png	ImageMagick

Instrument-specific

Mandolin / Violin / Fiddle

Title	Description
Fretboard-SVG	Find scales and chords on mandolin's violin's fretboard / fingerboard

Libraries for Devs

Javascript

Title	Description
abcjs	Renders abc sheet music using javascript and svg.
teoria.js	Javascript taught Music Theory.
tonal	A functional music theory library.

Python

Title	Description
abjad	Library for composing music.
music21	Python lib for musical analysis and computer-aided musicology.