Sheet music adapted for melodica
The melodica is a charming piece of musical instrument, and it allows much freedom in creative music making. However, like any instrument, playing the melodica is like dancing in shackles: limitless imagination is presented within certain restrictions.
For example, two most common configurations of the melodica are the 32-key model and the 37-key model, featuring no more than three full sets of octaves. Moreover, for many (cheap) melodicas, it sounds badly to blow more than three keys at a time, making any chords more than a simple triad unfavorable.
In this project, I am going to make very simple adaptions to some sheet music so that it can be played on a melodica (or maybe melodicas, or maybe melodica plus some other musical instrument). The philosophy is to make the minimum changes possible, yet changes must be made when it is physically impossible for this instrument to play.
I am trying to use public domain resources, but if anything happen to be an infringement of anyone's right, it should be immediately removed upon notification.
The sheet music editor I am currently using is MuseScore. Users of other music software can import the MusicXML file provided.
- Do you hear the people sing, from the musical Les Misérables, by Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Ständchen, from the song cycle Schwanengesang, D.957, by Franz Schubert
- Love Me Tender, by Elvis Presley
- Brindisi (Libiamo ne' lieti calici), from the opera La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi
- Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band, featured in the movie Star Wars, by John Williams and arranged as a brass band quartet by Charlie Wilkinson
- Moment Musicaux No.3 in F Minor, Op. 94 No. 3, by Franz Schubert
- Spring Festival Overture, by Li Huanzhi, and arranged for violin and piano by Hua-Cheng Situ
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Movement 1, by Walfgang A. Mozart
- Duetto Buffo di due Gatti, by Gioachino Rossini
- Czardas, by Vittorio Monti