Carole Prietto, ARRANGING BARBERSHOP HARMONY
A practical guide to barbershop arranging, aimed at beginning and intermediate level arrangers. Book is in PDF format. Delivery via return email when I receive your payment.
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Free Resources
- Barbershop Connections.com
- BarbershopTags.com
- BarbershopTracks.com
- Helping You Harmonise – Blog by Dr. Liz Garnett
- Learning Tracks – Jen Cooke
- Learning Tracks – Donya Metzger
- Learning Tracks – Kim Newcomb (NewVoice Studio)
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- Finale Templates for men’s and women’s barbershop
- Blank score paper – women’s barbershop (PDF)
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- Noteflight – Web-based platform for creating and selling music.
- Staffpad – Notation app for the MS Surface platform and iPad
- Scoring Notes – Excellent blog focusing on music notation programs, music technology, and music preparation. From NYC Music Services, a music preparation company in New York City. Covers all the major programs but especially good for Sibelius and Dorico
- Finale Blog – From MakeMusic, the makers of Finale
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project – UC Santa Barbara, Davidson Library. Historic recordings from the era of Edison wax cylinders. Many pre-1938 barbershop quartets are in this collection, digitized and freely available.
- The Great 78 Project – Community project for the preservation, research, and discovery of 78rpm records. Part of the Internet Archive
- The Shellac Stack – A great podcast, hosted by Bryan Wright, that plays 78rpm records from the first half of the 20th century. Not limited to barbershop; great variety and great fun!
- Sheet Music Consortium – Hosted by the UCLA Library; provides access to sheet music collections at more than 30 libraries all over the world
- World War I Sheet Music – Library of Congress
- Historic American Sheet Music – Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana – Created by Indiana University; includes collections from Indiana University Lilly Library, Indiana State Library, Indiana State Museum, and Indiana Historical Society
- Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection – Johns Hopkins University Library
- Archive of Popular American Music – UCLA Library
- Historic U.S. Sheet Music Collection – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Digital Commons, University of Maine, Vocal Sheet Music Collection – has a lot of public domain titles.
- Cornell University, Copyright Information Center – see especially their chart, Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States
- Dear Rich – Excellent blog on all areas of intellectual property (copyright, patent, trademark), written by a practicing attorney.
- The Evolution of Copyright in Music – Podcast from Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law. An interesting discussion of how new technologies have shaped the copyright law, starting with piano rolls and ending with today’s digital distribution.
- Legal Encyclopedia: Patent, Copyright, and Trademark – From Nolo, a publisher of law books geared toward the consumer market. Contains links to related books on intellectual property and copyright published by Nolo.
- Public Domain Information Project – A good source for information about public domain music; also publishes songbooks of public domain titles
- U.S. Copyright Office
- Public Domain Information – Excellent blog post from Glenda Lloyd, a Sweet Adeline arranger in Australia, about differences in public domain laws around the world.
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