A friend from my days in Miami, Andy Rice, and I are starting a slow going project tentatively titled: “Project Symphony“. He and a few of his friends run a web design studio called Miami Design Studio. Andy has a great description of what our goals are:
Without going into too much detail quite yet, this webapp will help classical musicians more easily procure and organize their sheet music. The goal is to create a large and easy-to-browse database of open source sheet music—both old and new works—that will facilitate the exchange of musical ideas and help make classical music a little bit more transparent and accessible. Musicians can add their own (presumably legal) copies of sheet music to the database and, conversely, add sheet music from the database into their own digital libraries and then manage them with a variety of organizational tools.
Simply put, musicians can remotely store and organize their sheet music collection as well as discover and share new compositions. Any musicians who have ever scrambled for missing pages or requested pieces the day of a gig will appreciate the usefulness of these features. It’s a pretty cool thing.
This will be incredibly useful for players as a central, easily accessible database for sheet music, and has the possibility to grow into a larger community with other functions than just being a music database like IMSLP.
Since school has just ended for me, I’ll have plenty of time to start tracking down public domain sheet music that hasn’t already been scanned by imslp. Hopefully this will start online library that doesn’t wholly rely on the work of submittors at imslp, though users are free to submit the works I upload here to there.