Do any of you know where in the Davis Sq/Cambridge/Somerville area I can find sheet music (specifically looking for Leonard Cohen sheet music) and/or blank sheet music books? Danke!
Wow, I feel like such an idiot, I didn't even think of a simple thing like a library...sometimes the best answers allude you.
Hey, no bad feelings: nobody remembers they're there, and traditional ones focus on classical. The ones I know about are: Tufts, MIT, Harvard and BU. Harvard's may no longer be general admission (nobody has ever hassled me.) MIT and Tufts are open to the public. I think BU's is too. You might check the Berklee College of Music, see if they have a library.
a trick I learned in music school was to use looseleaf paper to make standard music paper (you just need to add a few lines to it with a pencil).
AAAIIIIEEEEE!!!! Nonononono!
OK: Go fire up a copy of MS Excel. Grab four rows and set to a height of 1mm. or 1/8th of an inch. Set the next row to a height of a half inch. Now use to border tool to turn on the border to the tops of all cells. Now, select all five rows and copy. Paste a big bunch of times, one after another. Set the A columm to 7 inches wide. Voila. Print once and photocopy a million times.
And, of course, if you want to can set up more complicated patterns, such as pairs of staves for piano or groups of four staves for choral music, or whatever.
Same basic stunt can be performed in any word processor (MSWord, Word Perfect, etc.) If it lets you specify the borders, height and width, you can make blank score paper on it. I think my current perpetual batch I made on Word Perfect 4.2 for DOS; I just keep photocopying it. Hell, if you really want, I can give you some as masters for you to make your own copies.
MIT CopyTech had $0.04pp self-serve last I checked. If you wait for the end of the term, they usually have a $0.02pp sale. Blank score books were usually more like $0.10pp and up. Well, back when I paid for them. It's been since WP4.2 for DOS since I paid retail for score paper. :}
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Date: 2005-08-28 05:30 am (UTC)Hey, no bad feelings: nobody remembers they're there, and traditional ones focus on classical. The ones I know about are: Tufts, MIT, Harvard and BU. Harvard's may no longer be general admission (nobody has ever hassled me.) MIT and Tufts are open to the public. I think BU's is too. You might check the Berklee College of Music, see if they have a library.
a trick I learned in music school was to use looseleaf paper to make standard music paper (you just need to add a few lines to it with a pencil).
AAAIIIIEEEEE!!!! Nonononono!
OK: Go fire up a copy of MS Excel. Grab four rows and set to a height of 1mm. or 1/8th of an inch. Set the next row to a height of a half inch. Now use to border tool to turn on the border to the tops of all cells. Now, select all five rows and copy. Paste a big bunch of times, one after another. Set the A columm to 7 inches wide. Voila. Print once and photocopy a million times.
And, of course, if you want to can set up more complicated patterns, such as pairs of staves for piano or groups of four staves for choral music, or whatever.
Same basic stunt can be performed in any word processor (MSWord, Word Perfect, etc.) If it lets you specify the borders, height and width, you can make blank score paper on it. I think my current perpetual batch I made on Word Perfect 4.2 for DOS; I just keep photocopying it. Hell, if you really want, I can give you some as masters for you to make your own copies.
MIT CopyTech had $0.04pp self-serve last I checked. If you wait for the end of the term, they usually have a $0.02pp sale. Blank score books were usually more like $0.10pp and up. Well, back when I paid for them. It's been since WP4.2 for DOS since I paid retail for score paper. :}