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Finding A Free Piano Music Print
by Terje Brooks Ellingsen
If you would like to learn to play the piano, you may be interested in purchasing a piano music print. Sheets of piano music are often referred to as prints, and are available in a wide variety of offerings. Online stores provide access to prints containing the works of famous musicians from many different eras. You can perform works from the baroque era such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue and Handel's Messiah. Prints from the classical era contain many famous songs including Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Ode to Joy, as well as the piano sonatas of Mozart. There are also prints from the modern era including Rachmaninoff's famously difficult, though beautiful concertos. Piano prints are available for aspiring pianists of all skill levels, and there are records suitable for beginner musicians as well as intermediate and master performers. Prints are a convenient tool as they can be placed on a ledge above the keyboard so you can easily refer to them while playing a piece of music.
Prints are a useful tools that have helped many musicians. Only recently have pianists been expected to memorize their entire performances, and many famous musicians have traditionally used prints to record their masterpieces. Prints are available from many sources online. In fact, there are several free sources of prints available, which include http://www.8notes.com/piano_sheet_music.asp as well as http://www.freesheetmusicguide.com/ and http://www.pianofiles.com/db_requests.php Although it is possible to download free prints online, many of the sites that exist are traps and contain malicious software and phishing scams. Other available prints are not reliable as the host is using a free website with limited available traffic. 8 Notes is one of the more reliable sources, although it does not provide all pieces of music in its database for free. Many online merchants will offer several free prints to give potential customers a sample of the works for sale, as well as their notation style. Notation style can vary, even for prints of the same song, so it is critical that you look for prints in a format you are comfortable using. Because many of the classical composers did not create prints for sale and some of the prints were created by other transcribers, there can also be variations between records of the same composition. Certain other compositions were changed by the artists themselves as their skill improved over their musical career.
A piano music print is a tool that has not always been available. Although records could be kept on papyrus and stone tablets in the ancient era, only a few compositions were recorded. These types of records were used to transcribe works for predecessors to the piano such as the pipe organ. Although the printing press allowed records to be kept before the piano itself was invented, not all musicians recorded their works on quality paper, and some nobles monopolized the printmaking industry and only allowed favored individuals to record performances.
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