Re: [Harp-L] Sheet music to popular/easy melodies

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:43:51 -0500
From: Bob Cohen <bcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Sheet music to popular/easy melodies
>Can anyone point me to (preferably free) resources from which I can  
>get sheet music, not harp tab, written in C for all those goofy first  
>position melodies (e.g., Oh Susanna, Camp Town Races, etc.) we all  
>fumbled through back in the day. I've got a hoard of them in my head  
>and could, if pressed, write them out but that seems like reinventing  
>the wheel.  One of my students seems to do much better when he's  
>doing actual songs rather than exercises.
>Bob Cohen

Hi Bob,
  http://www.myriad-online.com/
Offer a shareware version of Melody Assistant which works with standard
music notation and has most of the useful tools you need to make, edit,
transpose, sheet music.  It plays it via your sound card's MIDI, and can
import and export MIDI files.
  This last feature makes it very useful - because you can find the songs
you want to learn on the internet in MIDI format, import them into Melody
Assistant, and you're there.  You can even play along with it as it scrolls
through the music, and you can mute different instruments if you want to
use it as a play along, or only want to hear the harmonica parts. 
  Other features are transpose to different key, and change tempo.
Not bad for the price.
-- G.
http://www.angelfire.com/music/harmonica