| Direct from Composer to Performer ! |
Here you may freely download the scores of a range of
Peter Billam's musical
compositions and
arrangements for
piano,
voice,
recorder,
flute,
guitar,
brass and
various chamber ensembles.
These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !
You might be interested in some writings, an interview or a press release by Peter Billam, or in contributions to mailing lists, collections of favourite quotes, and of reviews, a summary of lieder-writers of the 20'th century, some frequently asked questions about this site, a self-portrait of the composer, a list of errata, or a few improvisations. Or, you might want to make contact for some other reason.
This site has pioneered new approaches to funding composers and to music publishing; as far as is known, Peter Billam was the first composer to sell scores on-line, with on-line payment and on-line delivery. The compositions and arrangements are now freely available in PDF format, in a choice of A4 and US-letter page-size. The copyright terms are uniquely generous.
Credits . . .
All the music is typeset by muscript, a freely copiable and redistributable Perl script which parses a text file and generates Postscript output. You are welcome to use muscript, which was written by Peter Billam, to typeset your own music.
Text is typeset using groff -ms, version control is by rcs, the scores are viewed with gv, the whole operation is co-ordinated by the Unix make utility, and ghostscript is used to translate Postscript into PDF. This all runs on the Linux operating system. These pages were put together by P J B Computing.
Links . . .
www.pjb.com.au is linked to www.guitarloot.co.uk - arrangements for guitar of renaissance and baroque music, HobartGuitarSociety.org, free-scores.com - free scores in PDF and hosting of composers, PlayPiano.com - piano lessons on video, Nicholas Lander's Recorder home page, Christine Lucerne's CompanionTracks CDs for recorder players, Margo Briessinck's Lieder site, and PlayPianoToday.com where you can learn to play by ear using the "Rhythmic Patterns" technique. Peter Billam is a represented composer at the Australian Music Centre (AMC), and is listed in the Directory of Composers on the Net maintained by the CPCC.
To Peter Billam's compositions or the arrangements, or back to www.pjb.com.au . . .