This week's free sheet music is the (famous?) Sonata "Pathétique" by Ludwig van Beethoven, op. 13 no. 8.

This music was typeset by the Mutopia Project, and we thank them for their tireless work for making music free - both no-cost and freely accessible.

All three movements are available for download.

This week's free sheet music is actually two pieces, both in the Grade 3 ABRSM piano syllabus. Since Mic Professional Music's education arm has a piano student following this grade, it is appropriate to post the free sheet music created for this student here as well.

The first piece is "Wilder Reiter" or "The Wild Horseman" by R. Schumann, op. 68 no. 8.

The second piece is "Prelude in C" by J.S. Bach, BWV 939.

These pieces are without fingering hints. If you wish to have music with fingering hints included, please contact us.

The Education arm of Mic Professional Music has been active in the past few weeks. For this reason, all students taking lessons from Mic Professional Music related teachers will be following the latest Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music syllabus, both for theory and practical lessons.Read more

After a period of inactivity, Mic Professional Music's formerly-dormant services are now fully functional again. The period of inactivity was due to financial contraints and ineffectivity in service delivery.

Service delivery has now been rethought and reworked, and now a single-working-day service delivery system has been implemented. This means that any request or enquiry will not go unattended for more than one working day.

Another implication of this policy is that the weekly free services, namely the free sheet music and how-to's, are also re-implemented.

Since I am in the process of planning a show at the moment, I thought it would be good to share some steps on how to do it.

1. Determine the Budget

This most be done before anything else. A show will cost money, even if you get everything for free. Planning a budget is the first and most important step to be taken. Make sure that this is well-detailed if you will be approaching sponsors.Read more

Mic Professional Music will not be open for one week due to a short holiday being taken. All services will be suspended. However, that does not mean that you cannot request services or a quote. Just visit the Contact page, and we will get back to you as soon as we are back. If you want to request sheet music or a How-To, visit the Forum.

The dates for this holiday are from Saturday 12 June until Sunday 20 June.

This week's free sheet music is by Franz Joseph Haydn for a string quartet, the String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 No.1. Simply download the free PDF attachment.

If you need separate music for each instrument, simply join in a community space, such as the Forum or on Twitter or Facebook, and we will get back to you!

Here is a preview of the score:

Due to the availability of methods to pirate software and films, the issue of copyright infringement has become a hot topic in today's world. This means that many people copyright their software, their music, their documents, or even their hand-outs. Copyrighting material not meant for sale restricts the  use of that material, since it cannot be used or even bought, and thus it means the work cannot effectively be used or shared.Read more

This week's free sheet music is the Wall Street Rag, by Scott Joplin, published in 1909. This is a fun, but still challenging, piece to play, as the composer gives notes and comments all the way through.

Here are two links for this piece:Read more

Choosing good score-writing software is vital if you wish others to play your music or if you want to sell your music. Unless you have the handwriting of a god of music, you will need good typesetting software.

1. Lilypond

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