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SibeliusMusic.com Tops 60,000 Scores for Download
World’s largest collection of new online music scores has 65,000 members.
London, UK - Dec 22: Sibelius Software – the world leader in music notation software – today announced that SibeliusMusic.com, the largest collection of new music scores on the web, now offers over 60,000 shared music scores, including classical, rock, jazz and choral. All scores can be downloaded, printed, played-back and transposed and using the free Scorch web browser plug-in.
SibeliusMusic.com now has over 65,000 members around the world, who can download, review and upload scores for a range of different musical instruments and ensembles.
The majority of scores on SibeliusMusic.com are completely free of charge, while others are charged at fair prices to support working musicians. In addition, a range of SibeliusMusic Stores offer music from many of the most prestigious names in music publishing.
Jazz legend Sammy Nestico, one of the top selling artists on
SibeliusMusic.com, pictured with Jeremy Silver, MD of Sibelius Software.
Since its inception, SibeliusMusic has helped musicians around the world to benefit from their arrangements and compositions. “Sibelius offeres a place to sell my arrangements on the internet, safely and securely.” says Joel Jacklich, a keen composer and music teacher from California, USA. “Since signing up, I have had over 700,000 views of my pieces, and over 1285 scores (and many more sets of parts) sold in over 30 countries.”
Similarly, Philip Buttall, a composer and all-round musician from Devon, UK, says: “Publishing on SibeliusMusic.com has made my music uniquely available worldwide… opening up a whole new world of professional contacts on the one hand, and a great many new-found friends on the other.”
The latest new feature on the site is SibeliusMusic Streams. This service provides on-demand access to over 64,000 high-quality recordings of classical, jazz and world music pieces for a low monthly or annual fee.
“SibeliusMusic has been growing rapidly over recent years by word-of-mouth amongst musicians across the world.” says Jeremy Silver, MD of Sibelius Software. “There’s so much up there now, it’s just incredible. We’re very proud that the site is the number one off it’s kind in the world.”
For more information please visit www.sibeliusmusic.com.
About Sibelius
- Sibelius is the world’s market leader in music notation software.
- Sibelius was founded in 1993 by Ben and Jonathan Finn to sell music notation software for the Acorn computer. The Sibelius notation software was released for Windows and Mac in 1998/99.
- Since then the Sibelius Group has developed 20 additional music products for the professional, educational and home user, ranging from Internet publishing to guitar software.
- Sibelius has customers in over 100 countries.
- Sibelius is used in 60% of schools in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
- Sibelius is endorsed by the Royal Academy of Music and is used by all the major music academies and colleges: the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Juilliard School, Berklee School of Music, the Sibelius Academy in Finland, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
- The world’s leading music publishers including Music Sales, Hal Leonard and Yamaha use Sibelius
- Sibelius was recently awarded a prestigious Queen’s Award for Innovation.
Sibelius is headquartered in London, UK, with a US subsidiary, Sibelius USA Inc., in California and an Australian subsidiary, Sibelius Australia Pty Ltd, in Adelaide.
22 December 2006
All information correct at time of press release.
For further information please contact Sibelius.
