Great place to get free sheetmusic!

[Rachmanoinoff]

Just thought I'd share a little online place where you can download free sheet music.... great place, they have most works by most composers, the quality is great, it's free, legal, what more could you want?
The address is:

www.sheetmusicarchive.net

Oh and it says that downloads only are limited to two a day... since all you people here are my friends I thought I'd share a little secret with you... if you have internet explorer 6, (I'm sure you can do this on other browsers too, but I'm not familiar with them) just click tools, internet options, and delete cookies.  Then go back to the site and you'll be able to download 2 more... repeat this if you need more.  Hope this helps!  (They even have the Rach 3)

Regards,
Martin

[verwel]

Well, i know this place for a long time and i was sad to see that it has disappaered since a couple of days. Not so long ago, you could get unlimited downloading access. Anyway, was it that interesting? Anything you could find over there, you can find on numerous other adresses (for the obvious reasons: no protection trough copyright). Still looking for scores of Prokoffief's second piano concerto, and the more interesting works of Scriabin, Brahms' violin and viola sonata's, etc..
I would like to add a little something: i've been playing the piano for many yaers now (more then 25 years) and i'm getting a bit sick of it. How do you lot keep your spirits up?

[TicTacDuck]

If you're getting sick of piano TAKE A BREAK! Just take a week and don't play or order and new book and don't play until it comes. I suggest anything by Lorie Line (www.lorieline.com) She's a wonderful composer. Fav piece: threads of love!

[verwel]

It's far more serious than that, i fear. It started when i was coming of age and began to discover the really great music, always (scriabin being the only exception) written for more than one instrument (Wagner!). I just find the music written for the instrument not exiting anymore i suppose, but maybe there is a cure for it?  

[willcowskitz]

Hey verwel,

I think I know what you mean. The piano itself starts to sound dull and "null", after hearing compositions for orchestras or just multiple instruments adding their own strength to the whole.

  This can also happen if you have a routine for playing but forget why you do it. You're supposed to play for your own pleasure (I don't need any kind of commentary to this one) and if you cease to "understand" why music pleases you - not necessarily in general but forget the meaning of all the details here and there - the music seems to turn out to be empty.

  For example, with me, take Händel. I'm sure he's a great composer and all but I can't stand his music with violin involved. I always feel the need to get moving during listening to it so I turn it off and still haven't been able to get familiar with it.

  Once I stumbled upon Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre and was totally moved by the music. So later on I found the piano transcription of it and loved it equally or even more from certain perspectives. I had already got to know the piece in all of its instrumental dimensions so hearing it on piano just made things beautifully "simple".

  Maybe you should drop listening to music for a little while, or at least drop the piano pieces. Then, after a while, go sit at the piano and get to know it - again. Like you were at it for the first time ever, press the keys carefully at first and listen to what it has to offer. Going slowly helps to build up a relationship of respect.  If the piano doesn't seem to have anything to tell you, find new music, there are lots of less-known composers out there who have created some brilliant music.

  Also, there are piano transcriptions. Take Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries for example. Maybe if you get familiar with the emotional side (Wagner's compositions are often romantic) of a piece, you will be able to express its colourfulness and emotions through a piano alone. Maybe try also Liszt's Totentanz (danse macabre), its a great composition and has been transcribed for 1 and 2 pianos!

I have no idea if there was anything valuable in this post for you (who has played piano for 25 years) but I am sure that you're not "doomed".  
We just never get to know our friends perfectly, and this could be the case with an instrument. There's a lot more to it than just tapping the keys and listening. Go experiment and desecrate old believes/patterns on purpose.

I really hope you'll get back to it, that much of a wonderful instrument a piano is to interpret.  



p.s. Sorry if my english is inflexible and annoying to read.  

[verwel]

Thanks for the comments. I want to point out that the link to sheetmusicarchive.net seems to have re-established itself.

[princess]

here's a list of many other sites that you can d/l sheet music! free too! i've used a few of these sites for japanese music! hehe!

https://www.findfreesheetmusic.com/pages/Piano/