Free Music If you didn’t know it, my website has quite a few complete pieces available for download for free. There are also some free titles that would be of use to teachers or students, particularly as related to music theory. Unlike many free products out there, you don’t have to register, you don’t have […]
Tag: Sheet Music
New Sheet Music
New Music Available now at my website and SheetMusicPlus, are the following titles. For a list of all titles I have available, visit https://jamesgilbertmusic.com/catalog.php Ancient Quandary — Orchestra — https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20964252 Christ Is Made The Sure Foundation — Orchestra — https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20964255 David’s Lamentation — Orchestra — https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20964256 Heaven Above — Orchestra — https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20964259 I Remember You, […]
Late October additions to catalog and Soundcloud Listen to my contribution to a collaborative effort with Spitfire Audio. (Alas it wasn’t selected as part of the song). I added 3 new sheet music titles to the sheet music catalog (https://jamesgilbertmusic.com/catalog.php) Two versions of the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah. One for solo organ and one for […]
New Choral Music I’ve released 2 new choral titles through my distributor Sheet Music Plus Direct. As with all my current arranging, I use Sibelius for the composing and layout. First, an unaccompanied setting of Are You Washed In The Blood for SATB choir. See more details here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20804287 Secondly, an accompanied setting of Christ, […]
I’m taking a break from writing about the individual tracks on my new (July 2018) album. I will return to them. I sometimes wonder if anyone is reading these blogs of mine, I’d love to know. With practically no comments or interaction from anyone about my blog, I’d love to hear from you in comments […]
Current news I’m always looking for subjects to write about here or tutorial to do on YouTube. Please use the comments section to give me some ideas. I’ve not shown a map of where people are buying and performing my sheet music for some time, so here’s the latest (as of Mar 31, 2018) I’m […]
New Sheet-Music
New Sheet-Music I’m trying to compose or arrange more music than I usually do. Since I am a church musician, the obvious music to write is music of a utilitarian nature. That is, write music I can use or that another church musician can use. Click on the link for each title to see sample […]
New Distributor for my sheet music If you are a musician I hope you’ve heard of SheetMusicPlus.com. If you want a piece of music, they probably have it. I’m happy to announce that they are now distributing my sheet music via their Digital Music section. As of this date I have over 300 titles available. […]
Website update I’ve made some major changes to the website in the past two months. Visit JamesGilbertMusic.com to see all the changes. More free music In the process of getting rid of collections (see below), I decided to move several titles to the free category (listed at the bottom of the music catalog pages). As […]
Sheet-Music catalog update
Sheet Music Catalog update I decided to make some changes to the website, specifically the sheet music catalog. There are some obvious visual changes on the main page of the catalog. I’ve done away with the text based listing of categories and substituted them with graphics. If anyone has any trouble reading the text in […]
Here is a list of additions to the JamesGilbertMusic.com music catalog since the last listing of new titles. We hope you will find these helpful. If you are looking for a specific arrangement of a piece of music or need midi files created for you, please contact us for details. Fairest Lord Jesus (Woodwind Quintet) […]
iPad music apps revisited If you have some time, please listen to my music on iTunes (Click here) One of the most popular articles I’ve written here on my blog has been about sheet music apps for the iPad. I wanted to do a followup letting people know what I’ve found most useful and what […]
I’m not sure if anyone actually reads this or not, but I hope someone does. I wanted to let those that are interested know that I’m still around & busy with music projects. That’s one reason I’ve not posted in a while. The main reason I’ve not posted is that I’m not getting any feedback […]
Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicans, or improve their musicianship Conclusion I hope this Introduction to Music series has been helpful. While it is obviously not a comprehensive look at all there is to music notation and music theory, if you know this stuff, you have a great amount of tools to […]
Don’t forget, ALL of our sheet-music is now available at our website for FREE! I’ve uploaded a new video to YouTube. This is another with animated fractals. If anyone has questions about how I do the fractals, leave a comment and I’ll give the details. The background music being used is my own composition. I […]
Latest happenings I didn’t realize I haven’t posted in a while. The summer is a somewhat slow time of the year for posts. Here’s some of the things I’ve been up to. YouTube Videos I’ve been trying to post a music video of sorts every couple of days. These consist essentially of still images of my […]
Sheet-Music programs for the iPad See yet another followup article Update May 2013: See this followup article If you have some time, please listen to my music on iTunes (Click here) Introduction As mentioned in a previous post, my aging and no longer supported MusicPad Pro tablet that I had been using for the past […]
Organizing Digital Sheet Music Introduction I have thousands of sheet music titles in either PDF, freehand/musicpad or Sibelius format. All can easily be formatted to standard letter size PDF files which are great for printing out and viewing on an iPad or a computer screen. So, PDF format seems to be the logical choice as […]
Our latest additions to the catalog at our website consists of the title: O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing. There are two titles available. They are both upbeat, rock/pop adaptations of this classic hymn tune also known as AZMON. One is an MP3 recording and the other is a sheet music transcription for solo instrument. The sheet […]
New Videos I’ve posted several new videos on YouTube. You can view all of them at My YouTube Channel Here’s a look at a few of them. First, another music video with fractal art I created. I have some rendered 3-d artwork and fractal images. The background music is a new piece “How Perfect Love Is” […]
Ragtime Music
We’re happy to announce that we have a healthy sized collection of ragtime sheet music available at the website. Specifically, the favorites of the king of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. These are the original versions. The titles are: The Entertainer (Joplin) The Easy Winners (Joplin) Rag-Time Dance (Joplin) Peacherine Rag (Joplin) Palm Leaf Rag (Joplin) Maple […]
New Titles – December 2011 We’ve added three new titles to the website. Shake The Duck’s Jaw Short Tease At The Fountain Soft And Hard (see article for links) Shake The Duck’s Jaw A Novelty, Humor recording. It is meant to be silly and funny. Elementary school-aged children seem to really like it. Short Tease […]
Latest News (Dec 2011)
News A quick post to let everyone know what’s new. A few new titles on the website, some new mp3 files and sheet music to one of those recordings. See our other posts for the latest YouTube videos. I am soliciting suggestions for future videos. What would you like to see? Some categories I have […]
New sheet-music
Four new titles are now available in the music catalog at the website. These titles are for solo organ, solo piano, instrumental solo with piano accompaniment and an organ hymn accompaniment/alternate harmonization. O Day Of Radiant Gladness jamesgilbertmusic.com/catalog.php?sid=OR22 This arrangement is based on a German folk tune, also known under the hymn tune name ES […]