Navigating the siteMusica Viva has grown so big that even I get lost sometimes. In the end I had to do a major overhaul of the navigation links.- Wherever you are at Musica Viva, you can always get directly to all the main parts through the navigation column to the right.
- At the top of each page you find a row of links that let you navigate easily upwards through the hierarchy.
My goal was that there should never be more than four links in the chain between any two pages here. That turned out to be impossible, but I think I came pretty close.
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OverviewHere's a short presentation of the various parts of Musica Viva. I've also made a slightly more detailed site map.First:- Home: The place to start.
Sheet musicThat's still the main subject here, and three of the main parts of Musica Viva are dedicated to that:- The Free Sheet Music Archives: That's where it all started. The original collection of 11 short guitar pieces has gradually grown to a huge archive with thousands of classical and traditional music titles for all kinds of instruments.
- The Free Sheet Music Directory: This was originally just a simple link page, but it soon grew full fledged web directory specializing in sites with free sheet music downloads.
- Sheet music search: Maybe my most ambitious project so far. Search for music from hundreds of sites all over the web.
Other music related parts- Frank's ABC site: Everything about ABC. Don't know what that is? It's a very common music format on the web. It's just ordinary text, really, but with the right (free) programs you can both see it as standard music notation and play it back with your computer. There are a couple of hundred titles in ABC format here (I don't know exactly how many, I lost count long ago), but my ABC site's main content information about the format - a searchable software database, the ABCyclopedia (an encyclopedia-shaped ABC tutorial) etc, etc, etc.
- Manuscript paper: A visitors asked me for music manuscript paper, and I thought why not!
- The Encyclopedia of Music: As the name says.
- Basics: Introduction to music notation.
- The MIDI files: People kept asking me why I didn't have midis for the music as well, and in the end I gave in.
- Realistic midi: Since I had to do those midis, I decided I might as well do the job properly. Here's a few methods I use to make those midis sound better and more "realistic" than the average internet midi file.
- Software: A collection of some hard-to-find free programs and scripts.
- The Free Sheet Music Ring: Information about the ring.
Not music- The Library: I'm simply fascinated with the idea of electronic books online. Here is a selection of some of my favorites - both fiction and non-fiction as well as links to the really big ebook collections!
Finally:
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