
The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of
free content sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses List of musical symbols, musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chord (music), chords of a song or instrumental Musical composition, musical piece. Like ...
, in a way similar to
Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books. It started in 2000.
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Internet Archive
Retrieved January 24, 2001.
The music is reproduced from old scores that are in the
public domain. New scores are
digitally typeset with
GNU LilyPond and distributed in the following formats:
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PDF format in both
letter and
A4 paper sizes for printing,
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MIDI for aural reproduction, and
* LilyPond source code format.
Currently, there are more than 2,000 pieces of music available, more than half of which are pieces for piano. There are also many pieces for voice, and various other musical instruments. The Mutopia Project home page has a list of links to the most recently added pieces.
See also
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List of online music databases
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Public domain resources
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...
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Open music
Open music is music that is shareable, available in "source code" form, allows derivative works and is free of cost for non-commercial use. It is the concept of "open source" computer software applied to music. However, the non-commercial stipu ...
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International Music Score Library Project, a similar music cataloging project, that collects both typeset and
scanned scores.
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Werner Icking Music Archive
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Choral Public Domain Library
References
External links
Mutopia Project home pageMutopia Project mirror (Portugal)Project maintenance siteCreative Commons Content Directory listingWiki-score an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing
Collaborative projects
Online music and lyrics databases
Libre culture
Internet properties established in 2000
Canadian music websites
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