Classical Pieces Available on Soundcloud

• May 8, 2011 - 06:05

I have transcribed a few classical pieces using MuseScore. The resulting playable music files have been posted on soundcloud.com. On the main soundcloud page, search for misterdls. You may listen to the files online or download them; either way it's free.

The pieces now available are:

Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 (complete)
Symphony No. 7 2nd movement (NEW)
Symphony No. 9 2nd movement

Elgar
Enigma Variations - "Nimrod"

Schubert
Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished")

Suppe
"Light Cavalry" Overture

More may be forecoming.

Thanks.

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• May 13, 2011 - 06:49

Added "The Magic Flute" Overture by Mozart.
Comments here or on Soundcloud are certainly welcome.
I'm a little surprised that no one else is posting their compositions, exported to music files, on Soundcloud. It's free.

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• May 18, 2011 - 05:04

I cannot post the sound files here; they're too large. Posting the sound files on soundcloud served to promote MuseScore and provides the ability to listen to the file online without downloading it, though they can be downloaded for free.

If anybody wants to see any particular .mrcz file, I'll post it if requested.

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• May 17, 2011 - 12:58

Hello misterdls

I'm sure a lot of people here would love to see your scores. I'm also certain that people would like to hear how you did it and if you have any tips for other users or suggestions for improvements to MuseScore.

But a lot of people don't enjoy synth sounds for classical music. Especially classically trained musicians. Besides, anyone can go to YouTube or Grooveshark and listen to those pieces played by great orchestras and recorded by very professional sound technicians. So why listen to MIDI files made by MuseScore? The score is what is really interesting. MIDI version of many famous orchestral pieces already exist.

Would you care to post some of your scores here? I think many would appreciate it :)

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• May 17, 2011 - 18:36

I linked the post with the MSCZ files. Read the whole post to have the most up to date version.
@misterdls if you want you can upload the MSCZ file to http://musescore.com and have playback, score preview, mscz download, comments, revision, groups features and more.

Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 (complete)
Symphony No. 7 2nd movement (NEW) NOT FOUND
Symphony No. 9 2nd movement

Elgar
Enigma Variations - "Nimrod"

Schubert
Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished")

Suppe
"Light Cavalry" Overture

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• May 18, 2011 - 05:11

Yes, anyone can listen to most, if not all of these pieces played by real musicians online. Strange to say, I've done so myself! But the files I posted demonstrate what musescore can accomplish. That was my intention.

If you want to see any of the .mszc files, ask. But they're made with version 0.95, just so everyone knows.

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• May 17, 2011 - 21:28

These are amazing. I listened to the von Suppe as you posted it on Soundcloud, and again from the MuseScore file using the default soundfont. Following along -- or trying to -- with such a big score as it plays is something I've never been able to try before. The default soundfont has a sort of hurdy-gurdy effect in places, and sometimes it gets overloaded and makes a buzz sound, but even so, it was fascinating to watch the written music go by as it played.

So, how did you do it? Were you transcribing from existing sheet music? Do you use a MIDI keyboard? Do you enter one staff from beginning to end, then another, or do you work page by page or passage by passage? I've been working on 1930's popular music, doing one screen at a time with the mouse, putting in all the eighth notes, then the quarters, etc.

Many thanks --

-- J.S.

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• May 18, 2011 - 04:58

Well, let me quote from the comments I posted on soundcloud with the Beethoven 5Th, first movement:
"Created with MuseScore 0.9.5 and the sinfon36.sf2 soundfont".
I used the mouse and computer keyboard to enter evverything. I worked from printed scores which I already own or published online (only music in the public domain). I would enter a few bars or a passage at a time, then play it back to see if anything needed fixing. Took a long time, as you can imagine. A lot of tweeking and experimenting. I've actually done others that are incomplete for a variety of reasons.

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• May 25, 2011 - 23:05

Mascagni - Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana".

http://soundcloud.com/misterdls/mascagni-intermezzo-from

Search for "misterdls" to access my other Musescore transcriptions. There are over 3500 plays and 200 downloads of these files.

The opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" was a instant success for Mascagni, bringing him great fame. The short Intermezzo has become a huge orchestral favorite.

Scored for piccolo, flutes, clarinets. organ, harp, and strings.

As with all music files on Soundcloud, this may be heard and downloaded for free.

MuseScore version 0.9.4.

Attachment Size
Mascagni Intermezzo.mscz, 10.74 KB

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• Jan 4, 2016 - 03:33

You're an absolute superstar mistredls! I'm going to use the musescore files to prepare them to help teach/encourage students at our school, but I haven't been able to download them from Soundcloud as a musescore file - can you tell me how to do it, please? [I'm probably being a 'numpty', so apologies if so!]

Alternatively, can you email them to me? I've already got Beethoven's 5th, but I don't have any of the others. I do have some classical guitar pieces and I'll be happy to share everything and anything I find as we go along, if you agree.

I'll post my email if you're happy to do it.

Kind regards,

Stuart

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