This year MusicaNeo hits a new landmark: over 200’000 music scores are now available for download and print. This new number is first of all the expression of your loyalty to MusicaNeo and the continuous support of thousands of users – composers, musicians, publishers, producers, teachers, music lovers and enthusiasts. Together, we have gone through various stages and have accomplished unique projects for the development of music education and modern art.
Alongside sheet music collections for modern instruments like piano, violin, guitar or flute, our catalogue also has sections for rare and exotic instruments, as divers as mellotron, heckelphon, hulusi, didgeridoo, Native American flute, cimbasso, mandola, dungchen, theorbo and many others. Then there is a special section with music works that can be performed on any instrument. This collection reflects a new trend in modern art – a sort of ‘tonal ecumenism’.
By the way, the first signs of this phenomenon (in hidden form as arrangements for other instruments) can already be found in the creative work of classical composers. Take for example the widely known Sonata for Violin and Piano by César Franck, deservedly loved by listeners and performers. It was written 130 years ago for another great musician Eugène Ysaÿe and was later arranged for many other instruments – cello, viola, flute, piano, saxophone and even tuba. The cello version of the sonata received the composer’s approval. Our Classical Sheet Music catalogue, along with the original version, contains the score of Franck’s sonata for solo organ.
The tendency of erasing tonal boundaries is most visible in pop music. Publishing houses do immense work to transpose popular songs for various instruments and combinations. For example, Ed Sheeran’s Grammy-nominated song “I See Fire” from the film “Hobbit” is present in various versions, including music scores for guitar, ukulele, clarinet and saxophone in our Pop Sheet Music catalogue.
The genre diversity of MusicaNeo’s sheet music archive is no less impressive. Contemporary composers try themselves in the most unexpected music genres and give space to the sound of folk motives of various peoples of the world. The best proof for this is the extensive Ethnic Sheet Music section that counts over 60 sub-categories.
Another unique feature of the MusicaNeo sheet music collection is the section of Contemporary Music works that can be purchased together with a performing license - directly from the composer. We are convinced that the future belongs to this method of managing author’s rights. This way, all profit from the performing right fee goes directly to the composer. With the help of modern technologies, MusicaNeo makes the way from composer to performer the shortest possible.
No matter how many music scores there are in our database, each published music work is a new discovery and handled with great care. All publications are thoroughly reviewed by our music experts’ team, in order to provide the highest quality of the sheet music published and the most accurate match with music categories. We are trying to provide each author an opportunity to promote his/her creative work using all available tools, including MusicaNeo’s featured sections, the site’s homepage, social networks and blogs.
How the MusicaNeo sheet music catalogue develops over the next years is a question of time. Today we are doing the utmost so that every user feels comfortable as part of the MusicaNeo community – an endlessly diverse community of musicians and creative people from various corners of the planet.