Music. Smoothly connected.
Every director learns things about a piece that never make it past their own rehearsal room — which parts are hard, what it actually takes to play, what it goes well with. Legata is one place to put that, for band, orchestra, and choir, where it stays structured and searchable instead of scrolling away in a Facebook thread.
Free to use. Takes a minute — you'll just need to verify your email.
The publisher called it a 3, and twelve directors who've rehearsed it agree on average — but they put the 1st horn at 4.5. Worth knowing before this score is one of the ones you sit down with.
Illustration of a piece page. Grades shown are an example.
A piece isn't an isolated record. It has people who wrote it, directors who've rehearsed it, ensembles that own it, and concerts it's appeared on. Legata ties all five together today.
Claim the pieces credited to you, speak for them in your own words, and link where to buy.
The shared catalog: parts, duration, key and time signatures, ensemble, and tags.
Grades and notes from people who've actually rehearsed it, averaged part by part.
Your program's library — what's on the shelf, where it's filed, which parts are missing.
The programs you've played, so repeats get flagged and pairings become visible.
The connections are the point. Part grades tell you whether your players can handle it; your library tells you whether you already own it; concert programs tell you what it goes well with. No other tool holds all three, because none of them are shared between programs.
"It's a grade 3" tells you nothing about the exposed horn line, the 3rd trumpet part that sits too high, or the viola part that's harder than everything around it.
Legata won't read the score for you. It tells you which scores are worth reading.
1st and 3rd trumpet aren't playing the same piece. Every review grades each part separately — by instrument and chair, down to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or solo.
Grades are averaged across directors who've rehearsed the piece and shown next to the publisher's own grade, so you can see where the two disagree. Comments are anonymous, which keeps reviews honest.
Concert band, wind ensemble, full and string orchestra, and choral voicings from SATB to TTBB — plus jazz, marching and pep band, chamber groups, mariachi, and solo repertoire.
Filter by a single part's grade, not just the overall one. "Grade 3 concert band pieces where the tuba part is grade 2 or under" is a search you can actually run.
Duration, key and time signatures, year, instrumentation, and crowd-sourced tags like "holiday" or "americana" — all on the piece, all searchable.
Send a colleague a link to a piece and they can read it without a Legata account — useful for a booster meeting or a department email. Links last 30 days.
Track what your program already owns, with your own filing numbers and copies on hand per part — so you find the missing 2nd trumpet before folder day. Import the spreadsheet you already keep instead of typing it in one set at a time. Then narrow any search to just what's on your shelf: "grade 3 pieces we already own where the horn parts are grade 2 or under."
Log what each ensemble played and when. Legata warns you when you're about to program something your current students already performed — you set the window per ensemble.
"Programmed with" shows what other directors put on the same concert as a piece. That answers what pairs with it, not just what sounds like it.
Title, composer, and arranger search is always open to everyone. The rest are the search filters that make Legata worth having.
Add one part filter per instrument you care about — a piece has to match every row. Tag filters let you ask for pieces matching any, all, or none of the tags you pick.
Legata is free today. Instead of a paywall, the full filter set runs on a clock that you extend by contributing.
when you register and verify your email — every filter, no card required.
for every review you submit, or concert you log, added on top of whatever time you have left.
for every colleague who signs up through your invite link and verifies their email.
Title and composer search never expires. Your profile page shows how much filter time you have banked. If paid tiers ever arrive, time you've already earned will be honored.
Anyone can add a piece to the catalog. These are the things only you can do with your own music.
See your name on a piece and claim it in one click, or search the catalog for every piece credited to you. Claims are reviewed before approval.
Approved claims give every piece of yours a highlighted "From the composer" card — your bio and your own notes on the piece, kept clearly separate from the anonymous crowd reviews rather than mixed in with them.
Put your own purchase links on your pieces, and carry a verified badge so directors know the listing really comes from you.
Sales don't equal performances, and most school concerts never reach a rights organization. As directors log concerts, you can see which of your pieces are being played, by how many directors, and what they were programmed alongside — and export the list for a website, CV, or grant application.
Every link in the chain above is live. These are the things still on the list — here so you know where it's going.
The catalog's thin spots are the real work. Thousands of pieces are seeded, but many are still missing part lists, and a piece with no part list can't be found by the part-grade filters that make Legata worth using. Filling those in — by import, by review, and by directors adding what they own — is the priority over any new feature.
Thousands of pieces are seeded, but plenty of them have no reviews yet, and some are still missing their part lists. The first search you run may come up thin.
That's exactly why the review you write counts for so much right now. A database directors build together only works once directors start building it — and early contributions shape what everyone else finds.
I built this and I'd genuinely like to hear what you think of it.
Free to use. Creating an account unlocks every search filter for 30 days, and every review you write extends it.
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