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Example scores
These are the four scores that ship in the library. This page explains where they come from. Playing, editing, and deleting happen in the studio. There is no staff editor, play button, or keyboard here.
How the four scores are documented
The original melody and this site’s ABC are separate. Beethoven’s themes and the traditional tune are widely treated as public domain. The ABC in the app was written here as a short practice setting. It is not a scan or a copy of a commercial edition.
The app includes no recordings, audio files, SoundFonts, or someone else’s performance samples. Playback is always additive synthesis in the browser. The package license in package.json is ISC, and abcjs, used to draw the notation, is MIT.
The theme from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9: eight measures of melody with open-fifth accompaniment.
02 · Beginner · C majorTwinkle, Twinkle, Little StarTwelve measures on one staff. This is the guide’s first example.
03 · Elementary · A minorFür EliseOnly the opening, set in 3/8 as a short practice score.
04 · Technique · C majorTechnique StudyAn original study for dynamics, tremolo, pedal, and glissando.
Scores you open yourself
Later library cards are scores created in that browser. They are not published as pages and they are not in the sitemap. The right to those scores stays with the person who made them. The four built-in examples cannot be deleted in the studio.