Free Rameau sheet music
14 Rameau scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryJean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
French Baroque composer and music theorist who came to composing relatively late, in his forties, after first making his name as a theorist: his Treatise on Harmony, published in 1722, laid out the basic logic of chords, roots, and inversions still taught in music theory classes today. Once he did turn to writing operas and a large body of harpsichord music, his harmonic daring, unusual for the period, caused real controversy among audiences used to gentler, more conservative French taste.
Start with these
The easiest Rameau on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
Every Rameau score
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Rameau rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.