Sheet Music for GuitarOn this page you can find sheet music for guitar. The music is available as pdf-files and can be freely downloaded. I focus on pieces, which are not available in modern editions. (Thus you do not find pieces by Giuliani or Sor here, but works of lesser known composers.) The editions are not flawless. You are invited to drop me a note if you find some flaws.I hope you will enjoy playing the music. Sven Eric Panitz Music
History of this pageThis page started off in the early 90s, when I found an original print of the Monzino sonata in our local library. The thought of making it available to a wider audience on the internet was appealing. In those days, sheet music was not found on the internet. So I decided to typeset the sonata. Unfortunatly, there were no good freely available programs for typesetting music in a high quality. I ended up with MuTeX a library extension to the typesetting system TeX for typesetting music. I succeeded in producing a nice print of the Monzino sonata, which can be downloaded from here. However, typesetting music with MuTeX was very tedious and many special means needed for guitar notation were not readily at hand. Therefore, I decided to write my own typesetting program. The resulting program was called Tinte (Tinte is not TeX) and had been implemented with the programming language Clean. Typesetting music with Tinte was a bit more convenient. The Nava duo, Porro sonata and Schubert Lied above have been created with Tinte. However, implementing a typesetting system from scratch completely alone is a time consuming task. Some day I did not have any more time to invest into the Tinte project and stopped development. Eventually other programmers had the time to implement a typesetting system. Today there is lilypond a powerful typesetting system for sheet music. In its structure it is quite similar to the ways I had taken with Tinte. It is a command line tool, which translates a textual description of the music into a printable format. The Paganini serenata above, as well as the Legnani Potpourri have been typeset with lilypond. However, Tinte has not been completely sunsetted. I converted the Clean sources to the programming language Haskell, and I am still experimenting with it. The latest pieces typeset with Tinte are the Duetto by Luigi Moretti, Variations by v. Call and a Duo by Roeder which can soon be found on this page. Tinte now no longer uses the fonts from MuTeX and produces dvi as target code, but uses lilypon's feta fonts and now directly produces postscript output. This makes creation of slurs and beams much more convenient. |
