WEBSITE REVISIT OF THE WEEK : Werner Icking Music Archive

These website revisits are intended to remind you of resources I have listed on the Music Research Guide I have prepared to help you with your research. There are a LOT of resources listed on that guide, and the list just keeps growing. Hence, the website revisit of the week.

This week, I revisit the Werner Icking Music Archive.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner Icking. At present the archive is held by Christian Mondrup.

WIMA offers primarily classical music, but the archive also contains jazz scores. WIMA is also the home site of MusiXTeX, a suite of open source music typesetting utilities based on the typesetting system TeX

The majority of the compositions represented in WIMA is early music. Some of the early music scores published in WIMA are the first modern editions of these compositions. A number of contemporary composers have chosen to publish their works in WIMA.

The older music offered in WIMA is out of copyright. The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting files.

This website offers an array of composers, with downloadable/printable scores and many with additional sound files. I am a big fan of Schubert, so I will use Schubert to give you an example of what they offer. I still find midi files to be a bit odd sounding, but you do get a sense of the melody.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Die Erscheinung for voice and piano (D229) – lyrics by Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten (1758-1818) – edited by Jürgen Knuth – with Capella source file
• Heidenröslein Op.3 Nr.3 (D257) – accompaniment arr. for guitar – edited by Fred Nachbaur – with Noteworthy Composer source file
• Erlkönig for voice and piano with German and English lyrics (D328),
  same transposed to E minor edited by Fred Nachbaur – with Noteworthy Composer source file
• 17 Ländler (17 German dances) for piano (D366)
  1. Ländler in A-Major
     • Original version
     • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Arrangement for four-hand piano – Piano 1, Piano 2
     • Arrangement for String Quartet – mp3 MIDI – parts for Violins 1-3, Viola & Violoncello – arranged by Michel Rondeau – with Finale 2009 source files
  2. Ländler in A-Major
     • Original version
     • Arrangement for String Quartet – mp3 MIDI – parts for Violins 1-3, Viola & Violoncello – arranged by Michel Rondeau – with Finale 2009 source files
  3. Ländler in A-Minor
     • Original version in A-Minor
     • Arrangement for String Quartet – mp3 MIDI – parts for Violins 1-3, Viola & Violoncello – arranged by Michel Rondeau – with Finale 2009 source files
  4. Ländler in A-Minor
     • Original version in A-Minor
     • Arrangement for String Quartet – mp3 MIDI – parts for Violins 1-3, Viola & Violoncello – arranged by Michel Rondeau – with Finale 2009 source files
  5. Ländler in A-Minor
     • Original version in A-Minor
  6. Ländler in E-Flat-Major
     • Original version
     • Arrangement for String Quartet – mp3 MIDI – parts for Violins 1-3, Viola & Violoncello – arranged by Michel Rondeau – with Finale 2009 source files

  Edited by Jürgen Knuth – with Capella source files

• Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major (D485)
  • Menuetto – arranged for various instruments by Arne Dich for his on-line archive DichMusik
    Score – String parts Wind parts
    - part 1 instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet in Eb, clarinet in Bb, violin
    - part 2 instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, violin
    - part 3 instruments: clarinet in Bb, violin
    - part 4 instruments: clarinet in Bb, alto clarinet in Eb, horn in F, viola, C-instrument in Bass-clef
    - part 5 instruments: bassoon, bass clarinet in Bb, contralto clarinet in Eb, violoncello, double bass
• Der Tod und das Mädchen for voice and piano, Op. 7, No. 3 (D531) – lyrics by Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) – parts for Vocal soloist, Piano – edited by Jürgen Knuth – with Capella source files
• An die Musik Op. 88 No. 4 (D547)
  • Original version for solo voice and piano - parts for solo voice and piano – edited by Luigi Cataldi – with M-Tx/TeX source files.
  • Arrangement for choir SATB and piano And which commandment by Edward Bairstow. English lyrics and adaption of the music by Graham Freeman – with Finale 2003 source file.
• Die Forelle, Quintet (D667)
  1. Tema con varizione – parts for violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano
  2. Finale – parts for violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano

  Edited with Noteworthy Composer by Fred Nachbaur

• Marche Militaire Op. 51, no. 1 in D-Major for four-hand piano (D733.1) – transposed to G-Major and arranged for recorders SSATB – parts for Descant recorder 1, Descant recorder 2, Treble recorder, Tenor recorder and C- or F-bass recorder – arranged by Robert C. Walshe – with Sibelius source file
• Moment Musical No. 3 for String Quartet (D780.3) – parts for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, and Cello – arranged by Lev Zhurbin
• Zwei deutsche Tänze from Opus 33 (D783) – edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with PMX source file
• Arpeggione Sonata in A-minor (D821), arranged for viola and piano by Fred Nachbaur
• Nacht und Träume Op. 43 No. 2 (D827) for solo voice and piano, lyrics by Matthäus von Collin (1779-1824) – version in the original key B-Major – version in A-Major – – edited by David Newman for his Art Song Central song music archive – with Finale Printmusic 2006 source files
• Ave Maria Ellens dritter Gesang for solo voice and piano (D839)
  • Version with Simplified accompaniment – with Latin, German and English lyrics – arranged by Alberto Gomez Gomez – with Finale 2008 source files
• Deutsche Messe for SATB and organ (D872)
  • Score choral score
    1. Zum Eingang
    2. Zum Gloria
    3. Zum Evangelium
    4. Zum Offertorium
    5. Zum Sanctus
    6. Nach der Wandlung
    7. Zum Agnus Dei
    8. Schlussgesang
    9. Das Gebet des Herrn

    Edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with PMX source files

  • Zum Agnus Dei – edited by Daniel Taupin
• Der Lindenbaum – De lindenboom from Winterreise (D911) – edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with PMX source file
• Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe for voice and piano (D955) – lyrics by Christoph Johann Anton Kuffner (1778-1846) – edited by Jürgen Knuth – with Capella source file
• Schwanengesang (D957)
  1. Kriegers Ahnung (D957-2), lyrics by Heinrich-Friedrich-Ludwig Rellstab (1799-1860) - edited by Jürgen Knuth – with Capella source file
  2. Ständchen, serenade Leise flehen meine Lieder (D957-4), lyrics by Heinrich-Friedrich-Ludwig Rellstab (1799-1860)
     • Original version – edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with MusiXTeX source file
     • Arrangement for piano – edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with PMX source file
     • Arrangement for guitar – Werner Icking in Memoriam by Fred Nachbaur – with Noteworthy Composer source file
     • Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1801-1878): Serenade A guitar elaboration of most famous Schubert’s Lied Ständchen – edited from the original printing, New York 1846 by Renzo Garrone – with Harmony Assistant Myriad source file
• Valse Sentimentale – edited by André Van Ryckeghem – with MusiXTeX source file
• Fugue in E Minor for 4-hand organ, Op. posth. 152 / D.952 – adapted for organ with pedal by Patrick Roose – with Finale 2001 source file

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