I've become a fan of ABC musical notation, and have used it to create a two-instrument transcription of J.S. Bach's Little Fugue in g minor.
Transcriptions were written in extended ABC notation, or "ABC Plus", translated into MIDI using abcMIDI, and to PDF by first converting to PostScript using abcm2ps and then to PDF using ghostscript. As far as I am aware, all of these software packages are free software, under the GNU Public License or equivalent.
Here are links to the transcriptions, for anyone who is interested. If you intend to print out sheet music that is large enough to play from, I definitely recommend printing the US legal size versions, if possible.
| Instruments | Source | Sound | Sheet Music |
|---|---|---|---|
| two violins | ABC file | MIDI file | PDF (US legal size)
PDF (US letter size) |
| two violas | ABC file | MIDI file | PDF (US legal size)
PDF (US letter size) |
| violin & viola | ABC file | MIDI file | PDF (US legal size)
PDF (US letter size) |
| violin & cello | ABC file | MIDI file | PDF (US legal size)
PDF (US letter size) |
| viola & cello | ABC file | MIDI file | PDF (US legal size)
PDF (US letter size) |
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