I am wondering if there are Sibelius files of major orchestral pieces available for download anywhere. I've been using Sibelius for a while now to draw up charts for various bands, and recently used it for some symphonic orchestrating. It occurred to me that it would be incredibly helpful to have some Beethoven, or Tchaikovsky, or Copland or Debussy or whoever, loaded into Sibelius so I could solo various instruments and sections to learn how various effects are achieved. Any ideas?
Seems to me that xml or midi would be the way to go.
However, if you want a real educational experience, there are many sites that offer PDFs of major works. Load them into photoscore. You'll learn a lot from going through each line to correct mistakes. Then put them into Sibelius. I've done this with a few Mozart things.
--
Bob Porter
Sibelius 7.1.2,i3 2.4 ghz,W7 64 bit,8GB 1060,laptop
tylerama - that's a great idea Bob has, and it IS very educational. After you finish, please make them available to the rest of us. If you started with Schubert's 9th followed by Bartok's Concerto for Orch. that would be great. :-| Maybe some Mahler after that. We could have you entered in the Sibelius Hall of Fame. Wait a minute, forget it, I just thought of a way to make a few bucks. Never mind.
;-)
Good Luck
ps - I'm sure there are some out there, just behind firewalls at sheet music publishing houses. This just tells you that you ARE using the best software.
As Peter says the Petrucci library is a great source for out of copyright material - I have used it many times for making wind arrangements - but beware the PDF's are of a variable quality - some need to be entered manually while others will respond quite well to Photoscore. Some of the PDF's have even been generated from a re-score in Sibelius!
--
Richard Hatton
Sibelius 7.1.2 / 6.2 and Photoscore Ult. 7.0.2;
core I5, windows 7 64bit, 8 GB ram; core2 duo, windows vista 32 bit,3GB ram; GPO 3;
Yes, and I think the tutorial example gives a good start. As mentioned, it's a learning experience, since many notations will not come across well. If you know the score already by ear, that will help you get started correcting after you get it playing, if not, it could be a bit painstaking.
Those Beethoven symphony scores at imslp.org that are "typeset," not scanned, will import into Photoscore more readily than will mere PDF scans of a paper document. Look for those scores typeset by the CCARH (Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities).
The CCARH has also typeset the Haydn symphonies, numbers 93 - 104, as well.
Just a reminder . . . some of the works you quote may still be in copyright. Many of the Russian works (e.g., early Stravinsky and others) that were for many years public domain have been plunged back into copyright (at least in the U.S.).
For example, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (important for bassoonists like me) was available from a number of sources for many years became available in the U.S. only as a rental.
It's good to check, and, if you are making a book of excerpts, you might get permission from the publisher.
David
--
Ross Music Engraving
musicengraver@verizon.net
rossmusic.com
Sib7.1.3
Mac OS 10.8 Mac Pro, MacBook Pro
Nobody has actually answered the original question, though, which was not "where can you find PDF scores online," but rather, whether there's a good online repository of scores in .sib format. I have the same question.
imslp.org DOES have Sibelius files for many scores... but not for everything. You could contribute by typesetting a PDF file into Sibelius and posting it. Eventually this could be a very complete repository -- but it's a work in progress. Same with cpdl.org for choral music.
We're all in this together!
--
Dennis Larson
Sibelius 7.5.1 / PhotoScore Pro 7.0.2
+Dell Studio XPS9000 / Core i7 / 8GB
Win7 Pro 64-bit
+Lenovo Yoga Pro2 / Core i7 / 8GB / Win8.1 Home 64-bit
I did a quick search on the imslp.org site and found no Sibelius files..only pdfs. Please send example title or link or perhaps how you would search for sib. files on such a large site. All I found were pdfs....
Dennis have you actually looked for a Sibelius file on the imslp.org site or are you just assuming? I have searched now for quite a while and found none. If you have specific examples please give.
I'm also surprised by the statement that there are "many" Sib files on IMSLP. A few Lilypond and Finale, but I don't think I have ever seen a .sib file.
There are certainly PDFs that look like they were created in Sibelius, but that isn't what was asked for.
But anything on IMSLP that is not a professionally published edition is "use at your own risk" IMO. IMSLP doesn't impose any editorial quality control on the content that is uploaded.
Of course there are plenty of professional editions on IMSLP that have typos on every page as well!
