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Free Read sheet music

10 Read scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.

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The easiest Read 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.

Sweet is the day of sacred rest (DEVOTION) C major · <1 min Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I (GREENWICH) G major · 1 min His hoary frost, His fleecy snow (WINTER) F major · <1 min False are the men of high degree (RUSSIA) A minor · <1 min Awake, ye saints, to praise your King (ANNAPOLIS) C major · 1 min When man grows bold in sin (ASIA) C major · <1 min This life's a dream, an empty show (SMITHFIELD) E minor · 2 min Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands (WINSOR) D major · <1 min O wash my soul from every sin (SUPPLICATION) E minor · 1 min I wait for Thy salvation, Lord (FIDELITY) A major · 2 min

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 want the theory under these pieces, 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.

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