Engraved score
Beerdilaacshe
A qaraami melody by Abdillahi Qarshe, 1950s. Sheet music transcribed and engraved by Khalid Ibrahim, with a performance of the melody in the browser.
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The Library
Scores and resources for reading and playing Somali music. Everything on this shelf is rights-clear and stated as such; scanned books and manuscripts are added only after their rights are checked.
Scores
Automatic transcriptions
Three scores from the pipeline
Two solo oud (kaban) pieces and a 30-second band excerpt, transcribed by the project's pipeline with the scale it detected in each recording. Notation only: no recording is included, and every note is marked automatic and unverified.
See the transcriptions
Books
Book
Coming soonSomali music history book
Scanned songbooks and manuscripts are contributed by members of the project and checked for rights before they are shown. None is on the public shelf yet.