If music is integral to your career, there’s no doubt you accumulate stacks of sheet music. And if you cherish everything from the Golden Age to the obscure like I do, it starts to pile up! Here are five eco-friendly tips to track your hardcopy and digital sheet music library.
Alphabetize your collection.This takes time, so divide the chore into an hour a day and the payoff will be worth it. Depending on your home setup and personal aesthetic, dedicate a file cabinet for hard copies or a bookcase for binders. For both hard copies and digital, you might prefer to alphabetize by writer, genre, period…whatever will make it easy for you to locate the piece.
Build a song index.Create a document of your song titles in a Word or Excel file. To inform your performance, add columns for composer/lyricist, title of show, and year of publication. Use the applications’ search features to find and compare relevant information at a glance.
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Use an external hard drive.Is your desktop a mess with files you don’t access regularly? Too many cabarets and callbacks cluttering your hard drive? Offload them to a cloud-based service or external drive.
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