Performance Prep
Performers can adapt and annotate materials — add fingerings, bowings, dynamics, and rehearsal notes with beautiful engraving.
Welcome to OurTextScores
Open, Collaborative, Editable Music Scores
OurTextScores is a platform for collaborative score transcription.
Why Digitize?
Arranging and Transposing
Convert to different clefs, keys, vocal ranges, or instrumentations.
Reusable Music Data
Digital formats make one engraving useful across practice apps, analysis tools, publishing workflows, and performance prep.
Study and Research
Structured score data enables computational analysis, cross-work comparisons, score annotation, and reproducible musicology workflows.
Faster Editorial Cycles
When scores are versioned and diffable, reviewers can focus on musical intent instead of manually re-checking entire documents.
Transparent Collaboration
Branching, approvals, and revision metadata make it clear who changed what, why it changed, and when it was accepted.
Platform Features
Versioned Sources
Every source has full revision history with branching workflows to manage community editorial work.
Visual Musical Diff
Compare revisions side-by-side at the score level to quickly inspect meaningful notation changes.
Integrated Score Editor
Open and edit scores directly in the browser to reduce context switching between tools.
Catalogue Discovery
Search and browse works by title, composer and catalogue number.
Project Workspaces
Coordinate contributors, track project-linked sources, and manage collaborative progress in dedicated project pages.
Change Review Workflows
Get feedback on each changed line in the Visual Score Diff and resolve comments across multiple rounds of revisions.
IMSLP Integration
Every work on OurTextScores is linked to an IMSLP page. Only reference PDFs hosted on IMSLP are allowed, ensuring that the underlying compositions are public-domain or legally available in Canada where OurTextScores is hosted.
Public-domain status varies by country. If you are outside Canada, check the IMSLP page for your jurisdiction before downloading. Note also that an engraving may carry a separate copyright from the underlying composition.
Ways to Contribute
Upload a Source
Create a new source for an IMSLP work. Including a matching IMSLP reference PDF is especially helpful.
Submit a New Revision
Improve an existing source with corrections or an alternative edition.
Rate a Source
Use ratings to highlight reliable sources and help others choose what to use first.
Leave a Comment
Share feedback about a transcription so users know what to expect, or for editors to know what to improve.
Flag Mismatched Sources
Report uploads that do not correspond to the linked IMSLP work.
Join a Project
Contribute inside project workspaces to coordinate priorities and progress with other editors.
Report Bugs or Send PRs
Open issues or submit pull requests for the website or score editor.
Join us on Discord
Ask questions, share progress, and connect with other contributors.