I was mentioned in a blog about Mutopia Project.  The Mutopia Project is a site of free sheet music -- both free as in cost and free as in you can freely use it.  Volunteers use LilyPond to engrave the sheet music as PDFs and create MIDI files.

Over the last months I've been working on more complicated pieces such as Debussy's Prelude 2 (L117), written mostly on a whole tone scale.  When I run into trouble I can post a message to the LilyPond users mailing list and ask for help.  I sure needed help for the second prelude!  Here's what it looks like so far.  I still has some tweaking to do.

My Dad used to say, "There's no better bargain than sheet music."  Well, now it's an even better bargain!  It sure feels good to be a part of bringing music to people.  Maybe it's not world peace, but it's peaceful. 

It's been a while since I've composed a piece.  I usually compose for the band I'm in and I haven't been in a band until recently. Even then, I like to settle in and get the "flavor" of what the band plays and in what style.

My band (Oomblik) plays all originals, so it's even harder to characterize the style -- I usually say "progressive rock", but there's a bit of jazz in it too.  Since jazz is in my background, I think I bring that out a bit.

The song was called Newton, then Newton's Apple, then Newton's Apple Sauce.  I band member wants it to be Knuten's Apple Sauce, but I nixed that.

You can find the sheet music and an MP3 (actually an m4a) at the URL link below.  It was the band's second time playing the song, so it's still pretty rough, and there isn't a good ending yet.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_aEseOV9KTXWEJqcExvbHNkWXM&usp=sharing