American
Memory
Library of Congress
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written
and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
sheet music that document the American experience."
Art Song Central
"Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire."
Bach-Gesellschaft Download
Page
The complete Bach-Gesellschaft edition of Bach's works (published 1920-26).
baroquemusic.it
"The archive collects modern edition of sheet music from the 17:th and 18:th
century, many of them not available in any other modern form, transcribed from
original printed or handwritten sources."
Chopin Early Editions
University of Chicago
"The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center. Because Chopin's works were often published concurrently in several countries with variant texts, scholars can establish a sequence of publication by comparing a range of printings"
The Choral Public Domain Library (CDPL)
"Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music
sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about
composers."
The
Clarinet Institute of Los Angeles
"One of our services to the music community is the retrieval of public domain
classical sheet music and putting it online FREE for the public."
copy-us
"copy-us is an internet publishing house for contemporary music: we publish
the works of our composers free of charge on the internet and will send them at
cost to musicians and all of those interested."
The Digital Image Archive
of Medieval Music
"This website is a portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (the resource does not include plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1550, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe."
Digital Resources for Musicology
"Digitized Music Manuscripts -- Digital Score Reprints -- Repertory- and Genre-Based Projects -- Structured Databases -- Portals and Search Engines for Music -- Resources for Music Theory -- Historical Audio and Video - Historical Maps -- Early Newspapers -- Music Magazines -- Large Humanities Text Corpora -- Image Banks."
Edition Musica Poetica
"Der Online-Verlag Edition Musica Poetica hat sich auf die Herausgabe weniger
bekannter Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts spezialisiert."
["Edition Musica Poetica specializes in the publication of little-known vocal
and instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries."]
La Folia: a Musical Cathedral
"An effort to list all derivations and interpretations of the famous theme
La Folia." Sheet music and midi files.
Free Sheetmusic Library
"All the files are derived from public domain music in editions that are
in the public domain. So you may freely copy, print, distribute the files."
Google Print
"The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which
has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change
that, and today we've taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available
a number of public domain books that were never subject to copyright or whose
copyright has expired. We can show every page because these books are in the public
domain. (For books not in the public domain we only show small snippets of the
work unless the publisher or copyright holder has given us permission to show
more.) "
The
Harpsichord Music of Antonio Soler
Scores and midi files.
Hebe Online
Tecla Editions (mostly guitar music)
"Hebe is the online division of Tecla Editions. It is an online library where
you can download files directly from the site, many of them FREE TO EVERYBODY."
IMSLP (Petrucci Music Library)
"Welcome to the Petrucci Music Library! Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domainmusic scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge."
The Jewish Theological
Seminary
Special Treasures
"This site, prepared with the generous support of Mr. George Blumenthal and
the extraordinary photographic skills of Ardon Bar Hama, features some of The
Library's most outstanding treasures--The Rothschild Mahzor, the Prato Haggadah,
the Esslingen Mahzor, genizah fragments representing Maimonides and Judah Halevi,
and others. When viewing the images--of outstanding clarity--you can flip the
pages of the book and magnify the image (2X and 4X) in order to examine the finest
details of each manuscript."
The Lester S.
Levy Collection of Sheet Music
John Hopkins University
"The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain."
The
Ruth Dana Collection of Liszt editions
PDF versions of scores at the Juilliard School.
The
Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
University of North Texas
"The University of North Texas Music Library's Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection includes almost 30 rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons. Many of the volumes are 1st editions printed by Christophe Ballard, who held the privelège for music printing under King Louis XIV. Several are 2nd editions, printed by Henri de Baussen or Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard. The Collection also contains manuscript copies of operas and one ballet that were probably offered for sale, like the prints, at performances."
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online (NMA Online)
"The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries
of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart
in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna. The printed
edition has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag (www.mozart-portal.de and
www.baerenreiter.com). Some restrictions apply to the reproduction of images of
source materials, particularly in the supplement to the edition."
MusicaStorica: a Forum
for Music Lost and Found
At MusicaStorica we specialise in disseminating knowledge about music that has
for some reason slipped into oblivion, but deserves to be played and heard. See
and hear sheet music online. Download the music free of charge.
The Open Library
"Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free
reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded,
shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third
party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read
at the Open Library website.
The Internet Archive offers all media: text, audio, moving images, web content
and even software for public use."
Orchestral Horn Excerpts
"For this project I have chosen 46 of the most frequently requested works
on orchestral horn auditions ... and reproduced the standard excerpts taken from
the original parts ... I have attempted to include as many of the important passages
of each work as possible ... The most important and unique feature of this website
is the collection of multiple audio recordings of each excerpt.
Project
Gutenberg
"There are 19,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog...The
Project Gutenberg Sheet Music Project is devoted to digitizing musical scores
for a variety of uses. Most scores so far have been chamber music by composers
such as Mozart and Beethoven. This document is to give a brief overview of what
is needed to digitize a new score for the Project Gutenberg collection."
Renaissance
Masses, 1440-1520
Princeton University
"An online repertorium of polyphonic Masses
composed in Europe in 1440-1520"
Domenico
Scarlatti - the Sheet Music
"The purpose of this publication is to enable as many harpsichordists as
possible to play Scarlatti's music as he would have played it."
Sheet
Music Consortium
University of California, Los Angeles; Indiana University; Johns Hopkins University;
Duke University
digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic
"The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal
of building an open collection of digitized sheet music."
The Sheet Music
Archive
"Over 22,000 classical music pieces."
SheetMusicFox
"The only [sic!] website dedicated to bringing you completely free public
domain sheet music."
Charles R. Templeton
Ragtime Sheet Music Collection
Mississippi State University
"The sheet music collection of almost 22,000 pieces includes popular tunes dating as far back as 1865."
Tomás
Luis de Victoria
Facsimiles and scores of works by Victoria and others.
UbuWeb
"UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of
the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts." MP3 files, films, print,
etc.
UR
Research
Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
"Scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley
Music Library collection." Printer-friendly pdf files.
Variations
Project
Indiana University
Many standard repertoire scores.
Variations2
Even more public domain scores are available via Indiana's catalog. Make sure
you read this help page before embarking on a search. If a digitized score is
not in the public domain, you will not be able to view it.
WIMA: Werner Icking
Music Archives
Scores by many composers to download. This is where Frederic Rzewski publishes some of his scores, free for the taking. (Others can be requested through
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American
Memory
Library of Congress
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written
and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
sheet music that document the American experience."
Brahms
at the Piano
"An analysis and transcription of the 1889 cylinder recording of Johannes
Brahms piano performance of a segment from his First Hungarian Dance."
Cylinder
Preservation and Digitization Project
"With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online."
Cylinders
on the Web
"This site is a compilation of my collection of 2- and 4-minute cylinder
records. These cover most of the entertainment cylinder era, from about 1898 (brown
wax Edison-Bell "The Boys Of The Old Brigade") through to Aug-1926 (Blue
Amberol 5192 "Valencia"). I've also included whatever 78rpm discs I
could find of two of my favorite artists, Sir Harry Lauder and Billy Williams."
Digital Resources for Musicology
"Digitized Music Manuscripts -- Digital Score Reprints -- Repertory- and Genre-Based Projects -- Structured Databases -- Portals and Search Engines for Music -- Resources for Music Theory -- Historical Audio and Video - Historical Maps -- Early Newspapers -- Music Magazines -- Large Humanities Text Corpora -- Image Banks."
Edison
National Historic Site
"The archive at Edison National Historic Site includes approximately 48,000
disc and cylinder records produced by Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, between
1888 and 1929...We have compiled a selection of sound files in the MP3 format
from the archive and arranged them by genre."
Filodiffusione
" Channel V 'Auditorium' broadcasts classical music and owes much of its
uniqueness in the fact that it has access to the RAI Historical Archives, which
are a treasure of thousands of recordings of chamber music, orchestral and operatic
works."
La Folia: a Musical Cathedral
"An effort to list all derivations and interpretations of the famous theme
La Folia." Sheet music and midi files.
Kunst der Fuge
"The largest resource of Classical music in MIDI/ZIP files ever created inside
the web!"
Also includes: "The piano rolls page. Historical performance by Rachmaninoff,
Rubinstein, Godowsky, Volavy, Paderewsky, Gieseking, Joplin, Fauré, Backhaus,
Roll-Morton, Horowitz, Wittgenstein, Ornstein, Lhevinne and more!"
Lala
"No ads, no subscriptions -- just an incredible catalog of music to explore. Listen to any song or album once for free. Music from major labels and indie labels, all legally licensed. New albums on the day of release, and hidden gems from an artist's early works."
Live365.com
"Hear thousands of advertising-supported online stations — incredible
variety means something for every taste and preference! Or, get your Live365 VIP
Preferred Membership to enjoy an even larger selection of commercial-free stations
in CD-quality sound!"
Magnatune
"We work directly with independent musicians world-wide to give you downloads of MP3s and perfect-quality WAV files. We never work with major labels, and our musicians always get 50%. You can listen to every album in its entirety before buying or becoming a member."
medici.tv
Free webcasts from the Aspen, Aix-en-Provence, and Verbier festivals.
MusicaStorica: a Forum
for Music Lost and Found
At MusicaStorica we specialise in disseminating knowledge about music that has
for some reason slipped into oblivion, but deserves to be played and heard. See
and hear sheet music online. Download the music free of charge.
MUSIClassica.com
"Classical music radio station directory."
NetNewMusic
"NetNewMusic is a portal for the world of non-pop, contemporary classical/indy/avant-whatever
musics. We focus on the best living composer/performer sites that offer complete
musical works to listen to online."
New Music Jukebox
The American Music Center
"New Music Jukebox is the online library and listening room that provides
immediate access to scores, streaming audio, and vital information about music
by American composers."
The Opera Platform
Free video streaming of complete operas:
"An average of one showcase complete opera per month from one of 15 partner theatres."
Operacast
"The List of Opera Stations is a comprehensive list of all stations of which
we are currently aware that broadcast high-quality audio on the Net and who also
broadcast regularly scheduled opera programs...The Opera Table - our generic schedule
page - lists the station, program name, and times (in both Greenwich Mean Time
and Eastern Daylight Time), for each regularly scheduled high-quality audio operatic
broadcast of which we are aware currently available on the Net."
Orchestral Horn Excerpts
"For this project I have chosen 46 of the most frequently requested works
on orchestral horn auditions ... and reproduced the standard excerpts taken from
the original parts ... I have attempted to include as many of the important passages
of each work as possible ... The most important and unique feature of this website
is the collection of multiple audio recordings of each excerpt.
Percussive
Arts Society, Library of Cylinder Recordings
"The Gerhardt Marimba Xylophone Collection was acquired over many years by
Edwin L. Gerhardt. This unique and comprehensive collection was donated to the
Percussive Arts Society Museum in 1995. The Gerhardt archive includes reference
books, music instrument catalogs, scores, methods books, pictures, correspondence,
miscellaneous information, personal reminiscences, a music-related stamp collection,
phonograph machines, and cylinder, disc, and tape recordings...We are pleased
to make the cylinder recordings from this collection available to the public,
as Mr. Gerhardt would have wished."
Podcast Alley
"Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory
and the Top 10 podcasts (as voted on by the listeners). You will also find podcast
software, the podcast forum and great podcasting info."
The Podcast Directory
Arranged by subject.
Radio-Locator
"The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have
links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from
radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."
SHOUTcast Radio
"SHOUTcast Radio is a free-of-charge audio homesteading solution. It permits anyone on the internet to broadcast audio from their PC to listeners across the Internet or any other IP-based network (Office LANs, college campuses, etc.)."
UbuWeb
"UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts."
weeklycontemporary
"Only stereo webcasts of very new--some rarely heard--new music, culture."
Wolfgang's Vault
Free streaming of concert performances. A lot of rock and jazz, including many recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival since 1959. |
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NYCWireless
A map of "hotspots" for free WiFi (wireless internet connection) around
the city. (Remember that WiFi and data ports are also available in the Library
and the lounge area outside the Library.)
auth.nycwireless.net/hotspots_map.php
Staff Paper Generators
These allow you to print blank manuscript paper in a variety of formats:
dolmetsch online
A huge number of preformatted styles to choose from.
incompetech.org
Design the paper yourself to meet your specific needs.
PDF Pad
Customize, generate, and print a pdf.
Staff Paper Generator
Simpler than the two above. Be sure to use the print button on the website, not
the one on your browser.
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