Youth orchestras play a crucial role in musical training and the promotion of young talent. They offer young musicians the opportunity to develop their technical and musical skills and to experience playing together in an ensemble. With regard to the musicainfo.net database, the importance of youth orchestras becomes clear not […]
Brockhaus-Riemann’s “Musiklexikon” defines programme music as “instrumental music that is associated with the presentation or suggestion of a conceptually graspable subject to which the composer himself usually refers by means of a content description or heading. The subject suitable for music is capable of stimulating the composer’s imagination, motivating the
Can music say more than what is written in the notes? Weiterlesen »
With December we have finished our work on the betting parts list of Switzerland with the completion of the 1st class. All classes were revised and linked with as much additional information as possible. Sound recordings, videos, supplementary texts and illustrations were added. Thus, not only the works of Switzerland,
Switzerland: all betting pieces linked to data. Weiterlesen »
I have been working with computers for 40 years. No matter whether you change something in the hardware or software, there is always a rat’s tail of problems that need to be solved. Since in the last twenty years also in our system constantly adjustments were made, there are inquiries
You ask – we help, part 2 Weiterlesen »
The sheet music database www.musicainfo.net has been available on the Internet for more than 20 years. During this time, a lot has changed in the electronic world. Security has become the top priority to protect the platform from criminal access. From this experience, our webmaster has therefore had to make
Help, my login no longer works! Weiterlesen »
Brass music is diverse. Also in the instrumentation. If it is a brass instrumentation, abbreviated to “Bra” in our country, then it is still relatively simple: the instrumentation includes all brass instruments. With fanfare instrumentation, saxophones are added, but there are also extended types, for example, when flutes are still
Are you a Ha, a Fa or a Bra? Weiterlesen »
We receive requests from all over the world for help with special searches in www.musicainfo.net. We are happy to answer these requests, as they are also an indication of how we can improve the database and make it more practical. So if you want to apply very special criteria to
You ask – we help. Weiterlesen »
More than 530 works from the list of the Swiss Wind Music Association (SBV) for the 2nd class level have been revised, supplemented with much background information and updated. Thus, all titles of the 4th class (251 titles), the 3rd class (613 titles), the 2nd class (534 titles) and the
Switzerland: 2nd class self-selection pieces updated. Weiterlesen »
“Webradio” became “Tracks”. Numerous enquiries with the content “Can’t find the webradio anymore” land in our mailbox. Where did it disappear to? In the course of moving the data from the old server to the clouds of the internet, changes also had to be made to the webradio. All complete
Where has the web radio disappeared to? Weiterlesen »
Our sound archive currently has about 2000 CDs that have not yet been entered into the database. Step by step, these are being catalogued and digitally processed so that the recordings will then be available to our members. In the last few weeks, we have looked around the archive for
Time for brass band music Weiterlesen »
