Fontes de informação musical na internet: análise comparativa entre IMSLP e FREE SCORES na obtenção de partituras eruditas

Abstract

The work intended to evaluate the quality of two music score sites for download, International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) and Free Scores, comparing them. The presence of sheet music sites for download is vast, but many are lacking, without any analysis being carried out. These two sources were chosen due to the presence of classical scores, which are the focus of this work. Classical scores encompass music from antiquity, baroque, renaissance, classical and romantic music, after which it is called modern or contemporary. For the analysis of the sources, the criteria of Tomael and Pestana were used. From Tomael's criteria, the following factors were used: it was verified if the title of the source is clear and precise, if there is information about the source describing its scope, if the menu design facilitates the search and retrieval of the scores and the quantity was observed. of clicks to retrieve a score. As for Pestana's criteria, the following were used: it was verified whether the sites present information about the author, whether he is a specialist in the area of music and presents the contact with the person responsible for the site, it was verified whether the site is updated frequently containing accessible links, it was observed if it contains a site map, if the ads match the theme of the sites and if there is a part entitled frequently asked questions, where users ask their questions. A comparative chart with the Pestana and Tomael criteria was elaborated in the study, in order to present the comparative evaluation between International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) and Free Scores. The evaluation allowed us to verify a main characteristic of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) and Free Scores: in the first, the entire score retrieval process is organized in alphabetical order, different from the way of retrieving it in the Free Scores, which results in a tiring search, thus resulting in the indication of International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) as the most suitable source in the indication for the recovery of classical scores.