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Announcing Our First Digital Print Publishing Contest
Did you know you can sell digital copies of your arrangements and original scores through Sheet Music Plus? Our Digital Print Publishing program allows you to upload PDFs and audio samples, input...
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Composer Success Story: David Burndrett
David Burndrett’s musical career started at an early age. During his first years at high school, he supported many amateur operatic societies and orchestras, playing either cello or double bass. David...
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New Year’s Music Selling Contest for Composers, Arrangers, and Songwriters
Composers, Arrangers, and Songwriters: we’ve got another exciting contest for you happening now through the end of December. Upload your sheet music and mp3 recordings to automatically enter the New...
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Publishing Models for the Independent Composer
On January 15, 2015 during the New Music Gathering at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sheet Music Plus CEO Jenny Silva gave a presentation on publishing models for the independent composer....
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10 Interesting Facts About Aaron Copland
by Jacy Burroughs 1. Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. He was the youngest of five children. While his father had no musical...
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10 Fun Facts About Claude Debussy
by Jacy Burroughs 1. Achille-Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862. He began piano lessons at the age of seven. In 1871, he started to study with Marie Mauté de Fleurville, who claimed to have...
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Introducing ArrangeMe: Legally Create and Sell Arrangements for over 1000...
Start creating the arrangements you’ve been dreaming of. Arrange over 1000 hot copyrighted songs. Sheet Music Plus is excited to announce ArrangeMe, a groundbreaking program that allows arrangers to...
View ArticleMusic Career Options: What’s Right for You?
Guest post by Kate Samano, Content Editor from University of Florida School of Music After identifying and distinguishing the different types of music degrees, it is important to take a look at the...
View ArticleComposer Spotlight: Interview with Ola Gjeilo
Biography Composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he currently...
View ArticleA Chat with Lloyd Larson
Guest post from Jubilate Music Group Lloyd Larson has become one of today’s most published and performed church music writers. A frequently called-upon clinic and conference resource, Larson has been a...
View ArticleDvorak’s Symphony No. 9: A National Culture for the New World
Even in a cultural era ripe with nationalism, Antonín Dvořák was one of the most nationalistic. Slavic folk music, especially from his native Bohemia, permeates his entire oeuvre. He develops these...
View ArticleSky Macklay: The Process & Joy of Subversive Humor
Over the summer we found some time to connect over Skype with composer, oboist, installation artist and professor Sky Macklay, who was in the middle of what sounded like a truly magnificent residency...
View ArticleLee & Susan Dengler: A Holy Week Cantata Reflecting on Sacrifice and Sorrow
Guest post by composers Lee & Susan Dengler introducing their new Holy Week cantata, When Darkness Comes. Lee and Susan are the authors of over 400 choral anthems, cantatas and vocal and piano solo...
View ArticlePepper Choplin: Once upon a Morning – From Resurrection to Pentecost
Guest post by composer Pepper Choplin introducing his new cantata, Once upon a Morning: From Resurrection to Pentecost. Choplin is known as one of the most creative writers in church music today. With...
View ArticleGustav Mahler: The Conductors’ Interviews
Gustav Mahler was considered one of the greatest opera conductors of his time; he could even be called the first intercontinental star conductor. But that was not the case with his music; until the...
View ArticleTop 10 Interesting Facts About Frédéric Chopin
By Austin Hennen Vigil Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer and pianist of the Romantic era who wrote mainly for the solo piano. He was born on March 1st, 1810 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland,...
View ArticleTop 10 Facts About Claude Debussy
Written by: Austin Hennen Vigil Claude Debussy was a famous French composer that was born on August 22nd, 1862, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. The town is located near Paris and he was the oldest of...
View ArticleJohn Cage’s In a Landscape and more than a score…
By Jacy Burroughs When I learned about John Cage for the first time as an undergraduate music major, I was only instructed in his most avant-garde concepts: the infamous 4’33”, his prepared piano...
View ArticleDiscovering Mårten Jansson & Bärenreiter’s Jansson Choral Competition
Mårten Jansson Every time we listen to Swedish composer Mårten Jansson we can’t help but get swept up in the whirlwind of emotions he creates. His music is full of all of the compositional elements...
View ArticleA Short Foray into Beethoven’s Variations
Guest post by Dr. Dominik Rahmer, editor at G. Henle Verlag. The formal technique of “variations” played an important role in Beethoven’s work throughout his entire life. Critic Paul Bekker wrote in...
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