Sibelius Software currently have 2 Scorch plug-ins to read sheet music: 1 for Windows and 1 for Mac.

To all Linux users who want a variant of Scorch for Linux, I encourage you to contact the company. You are welcome to copy and paste the text message I sent them (below), and let's hope for strength in numbers.

The Scorch plugin is used to read sheet music sold by several companies online. If you're a musician, please join this campaign and contact Sibelius.

Best regards,

JohnE1
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Form to contact Sibelius:

http://www.sibelius.com/documents/contact_form.html

Message I sent to Sibelius via the form page above:
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There are a lot of Linux users (and growing) that would like to use your Scorch plug-in.

You have a Mac version, so you're not that far away from a Linux version. The vast majority of Linux users run the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Can we expect the Scorch plug-in for Linux soon?!

Never heard of Scorch - have you seen MuseScore?

... hmmm, browser plugin? Firefox is on the support list - I take it that it has a windows exe installer?

Sheet music editors have been around a while:
http://lilypond.org/web/
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/
http://www.denemo.org/index.php/Main_Page

To what extent is a Scorch plugin actually needed?

eg. MuseScore can export a range of unencumbered formats - noteably:
Presumably, it won't read or export to sebelius' native format.

There are even free tools to convert printed sheet music to musicxml
http://www.wikifonia.org/node/507

further reading:
http://2006.xmlconference.org/progra...ations/46.html

It looks like you need the plugin to access the Sebelius collection. However, they are not the only place to get sheet music. I have not been able to work out if sibelius scores use a proprietary format for distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibelius_notation_program

There is a site that I use for church music (worshiptogether.com) that requires it. Once you purchase a piece of music, the music is loaded into the Scorch viewer. In this viewer, you have the opportunity to not only view and print, but to also play back the piece in various (synthesized) instruments, and most importantly, change the key to any key and tempo marking you wish to print it in. This is the feature I am personally looking for, and no company that I've run into so far offers this specific grouping of worship songs in a format that can be edited to any extent within Linux.

No. I love and use MuseScore all the time, but it cannot read Sibelius files, and it does not offer web-viewing for files embedded in the site (unless you use Mozplugger, I suppose).

I will definitely check this out. It might be a decent workaround.

Yes, there are many places to get sheet music, but not ones that allow the flexibility to change keys, unless you use a proprietary viewer of some sort. These are definitely missing on Linux. And yes, I believe the Sibelius format is proprietary.

Thanks for the info!