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15 Jul 11 - 10:36 AM (#3188244) Subject: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia Recently I saw a reference to Wikifonia in a Mudcat thread, and I decided to check it out. http://wikifonia.org/browse For those who can read music (sticks and dots) this site is a wonderful source of new songs to play. Not only can you print lead sheets, you can transpose them to a new key before printing. Yowza! My first new piece is "Falling in Love with Love" by Rodgers and Hart. I enjoy the way it straddles the gap between modern and traditional. What's more trad than a waltz? And the chords are old favorites - C, G, Dm, a coupla sevenths. Yet it's put together in an innovative way. There are minor inconveniences - you have to sign up, and I still haven't found a way to change my complicated password. But I think it's worth it. (I maintain a free g-mail account for uses like this.) I'll be away from my computer for a few days, but when I return I hope to read that a bunch of people have gone to Wikifonia and found pieces to play. |
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15 Jul 11 - 11:50 AM (#3188291) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Jack Campin Clickable: http://wikifonia.org/browse Seems okay but could be better - I just had a look for "Over The Rainbow", but you can't get things sorted by title so I had to use the search box. 595 hits, of which 2 were the right song. I was able to search, transpose and download without logging in. What else can you do with a signup? (BTW blue clickies like the above are much easier to make with a tabbed browser likw Firefox). |
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18 Jul 11 - 11:14 AM (#3190054) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia Hello, Jack. I'm glad to hear you got a new song from the site. I can do clickies, I just didn't feel like it. I was in a hurry, being on my the way to visit friends and see the opera "Don Pasquale." It was odd to experience beautiful music hung upon a trivial plot. I started this thread hoping to show that there are catters who actually care about music. I couldn't follow the recent scandal over trolls who impersonate facebookers who are pretending to be catters, but it was clear that our dear Max was getting a lot of flack he doesn't deserve. Hmmm. Isn't the song called "Somewhere over the Rainbow'? Maybe you should have been looking under S. |
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18 Jul 11 - 11:43 AM (#3190071) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Will Fly Hey - thanks for that - I finally managed to get the lead sheet for "Ballad Of The Sad Young Men" by Fran Landesman & Tommy Wolf, which I've been searching for, on and off, for ages! |
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18 Jul 11 - 02:14 PM (#3190155) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: keyofzed Thanks for the link. It's well worth a look. A few minor niggles like artists sorted alphabetically by first name and many groups listed under "T" for "The". I transposed "When I'm 64" from Db to C and found F chords shown as E# |
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19 Jul 11 - 09:39 AM (#3190626) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia Glad you like it, Will. Thanks for the tips, key. I'll remember that. |
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20 Jul 11 - 12:11 AM (#3191147) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Genie I discovered this site back in June when I was looking for sheet music for some songs for a memorial service. I love how easy it is to pick your key and then download and print the basic lyrics and score. The only 'complaint' I have, if any, would be that the catalogue of songs is not larger than it is. But I think they keep adding new songs as people submit them. Genie |
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20 Jul 11 - 04:55 AM (#3191215) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Nigel Parsons How disappointing. I read the title "Free lead sheets" and thought it might help replace the flashings on the roof of my local church. |
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02 Sep 11 - 05:31 AM (#3216931) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,jim hey there I found the wikifonia site and yea there is some pretty impressive lead sheets there, I have a jazz duo down here in TASMANIA and this site had some cool music , however I have tried recently to have a better look at their site and it has disappeared , gone ,all I get is that they are no longer on line , shame really because they had a really friendly site |
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02 Sep 11 - 11:16 AM (#3217095) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia It's gone 404 for me, too. Perhaps it's a temporary problem and it will come back. |
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02 Sep 11 - 01:07 PM (#3217157) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: johncharles It seems to be back. John |
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02 Mar 13 - 03:29 PM (#3485560) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST Wikifonia is "down". |
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02 Mar 13 - 09:54 PM (#3485671) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia "The MySQL error was: Too many connections." Perhaps if you just wait a while... |
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03 Mar 13 - 07:01 AM (#3485766) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Will Fly Looks to me like the server is down or the site has packed up. In either of these cases, then just one attempted connection might be one too many. |
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03 Mar 13 - 05:51 PM (#3485997) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia It's working fine now. |
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24 Aug 13 - 01:53 PM (#3552427) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Tootler Seems to be OK now. Slight problem, though: "The sheet music could not be displayed! You either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player." I'm using Safari on iPad. Not the first time I've had this problem - and it's the latest version of the iPad. I'll have to try Firefox on my Linux PC upstairs. I've not been overly impressed with iPad, useful though it is. |
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24 Aug 13 - 01:53 PM (#3552428) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Tootler Seems to be OK now. Slight problem, though: "The sheet music could not be displayed! You either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player." I'm using Safari on iPad. Not the first time I've had this problem - and it's the latest version of the iPad. I'll have to try Firefox on my Linux PC upstairs. I've not been overly impressed with iPad, useful though it is. |
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24 Aug 13 - 02:32 PM (#3552437) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia I used Windows XP and a desktop, and I just printed "If You Love Me, Really Love Me" to play on the piano. I'll cover up the English lyrics so it seems more French. |
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19 May 15 - 12:09 AM (#3709872) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: CupOfTea Dagnabbit. They've closed this site down due to problems with permissions. I had some nice bits of music from them in the past. sigh |
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19 May 15 - 03:45 AM (#3709898) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: Leadfingers They suggest we try Musescore - Clicky |
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19 May 15 - 08:57 AM (#3709966) Subject: RE: wikifonia - free lead sheets From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the update, Leadfingers. |