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Musicnotes and Tunecore Team Up to Offer Artist Sheet Music
Posted on May 11, 2009 by Bill Aicher.
TuneCore has teamed up with Musicnotes.com to provide yet another way for musicians to make money off their fame. Kicking off in May 2009, any TuneCore Artist selling over 25,000 songs within 90 days can have at least one of their songs professionally scored, translated to sheet music and made available for sale via paid [...]
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Susan Boyle Phenomenon Resonates in Sheet Music
Posted on Apr 20, 2009 by Bill Aicher.
Madison, WI – April 20, 2009 – Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today that Susan Boyle, the singer who stunned viewers the world over with her performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” on the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ TV show, has influenced sales of sheet music as well. “We have never [...]
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Love Piano Sheet Music? Learn about Types of Notation!
Posted on Apr 13, 2009 by Monica.
Notation is the way music is represented by written symbols. Symbols can include notes or other markings that indicate how to play your song. A few of you had asked what some of those musical symbols mean, and our production team recommended this list of modern musical symbols which includes everything from a “staff” to [...]
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Chopin, Ask Musicnotes and U2 in The Whole Note
Posted on Apr 09, 2009 by Monica.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Chopin, “Chopin’s music for the piano combined a unique rhythmic sense (particularly his use of rubato), frequent use of chromaticism, and counterpoint. This mixture produces a particularly fragile sound in the melody and the harmony, which are nonetheless underpinned by solid and interesting harmonic techniques. He took the new [...]
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Had a Song Suggestion? Here’s a Few of Your Requests!
Posted on Mar 12, 2009 by Monica.
Seems like only yesterday when we posted about our continued efforts to help you find your song. We’re not ready to make our big announcement yet, but we can tell you that we’ve made significant changes on the back end to get ready a change. Before we revisit the song suggestion tool for those of [...]
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Musicnotes.com Sells Five-Millionth Download; Growth Continues In 2009
Posted on Mar 12, 2009 by Bill Aicher.
Madison, WI – March 12, 2009 – Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today that it recently sold its five-millionth download since the site first launched (1999). The five-millionth download was a Guitar Guru Session of Don McClean’s “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night),” and was sold to a customer in Germany. Musicnotes [...]
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Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Wins Musicnotes.com Song of the Year Award
Posted on Feb 24, 2009 by Bill Aicher.
Madison, WI – February 24, 2009 – Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today that songwriter Leonard Cohen, and music publisher Sony/ATV Music Publishing, are the recipients of the seventh annual Musicnotes Song of the Year Award for the song, “Hallelujah.” The Musicnotes Song of the Year Award is presented each [...]
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How to Review Sheet Music on Musicnotes.com
Posted on Feb 16, 2009 by Monica.
Did you know that Musicnotes.com customers can review the sheet music they’ve purchased on our site? Sheet music reviews can be pretty subjective, because musicians and singers might have different levels of proficiency. That’s one of the reasons why we designed the reviews the way we did. Customers can score sheet music based on its [...]
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Musicnotes on the Scene in 2008
Posted on Feb 02, 2009 by Monica.
Earlier this month, we reflected on all the things we’ve done this past year for our customers and music fans everywhere. Our marketing director was kind enough to pop by and talk about these efforts in this post entitled, “2008: Highlights from Musicnotes.com. We’ve also took a look at what your favorite songs were from [...]
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Announcing the December YouPerform Contest Winner
Posted on Jan 26, 2009 by Monica.
We are thrilled to announce that fourteen-year old Daniel was the winner of Musicnotes.com YouPerform contest for December. Performing a challenging Nutcracker Medley, Daniel arranged the selections from The Nutcracker for the organ. Let’s listen to Daniel as he talks about his love for the organ and a bit about his musical background. I arranged [...]


