Assignment 4 - Databaseyness

Here's what I was going on for assignment four:

Search for a database of musical information on the web which contains one of the following:

1. Printable music generated with a computer program.
2. Printable music generated from scanned paper music.
3. Virtual scores (computer data of musical scores)

So I did some searching. First I looked for the actual phrase "virtual scores" and found some interesting stuff like:

State Library of Queensland Virtual Scores, where they've scanned pieces of music and designed a Flash-based "virtual book" where you can turn the pages and read the score. Interesting. Not exactly what I was looking for, but cool.

I surfed a little in their site and found:

Queensland Digital Library, where I was able to view scanned images in a more conventional fashion and "print score", which brought me a high resolution PDF that allowed me to print. Still no computer representation of the data, just scanned images.

Then I found this;

Virtual Library of Music Scores, where this guy has a lot of Brazillion and other Latin-American music in PDFs and Sibelius and Finale and MIDI and Encore formats. Nice.

Our sites were high on the Google list:

Musical Information

Searched for some other things like "virtual music" and "printable music", and came up with more scanned images and other Tom Foolery:

Virtual Sheet Music dawt cawm
Free Printable Music
Other Free Printable Music
Heartistry Music

My favorite, I think, was this:

Tarmo Vallist, because his site was the first one I found to have a link to the "Finale Notepad" program, which works kind of like Adobe PDF Reader, where you can view Finale files but not edit them. Very cool, and I didn't know it existed before.