Ok, a little post for music lovers. Its was quite busy the past weeks in and out of camp.
“Scores” is the term we (or maybe just I) use to call for music sheets, that is sheets/papers of music notes (”dou gay”). As I soon found out thru the net, scores referred to combined orchestra pieces while sheet music (the term I never use before) is more general.
Anyway here is my compilation of great (personally) links to free scores or sheet music. 3 categories
a) Typeset - scores generated by (usually free) computer software eg. lilypond, MusiXTeX,, finale, Sibelius…
b) Originals - scores scanned (usually bought copies, or faxed)
c) Others - other links if you have the time to explore
A) Typeset-ted Music
Mutopia Project Open-source sheet music in PDF, PS, and GNU LilyPond formats. Mostly classical. My 2 contributions so far are Hallelujah Chorus and Allegro from Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive. Great site with pieces mostly typeset with MusiXTeX, a place where you can find many classics and parts to play together as a group.
Johan Tufvessons Early Music PDFs and midis of Baroque and before (17th and 18th century).
B) Scans:
The Sheet Music Archive Large selection of public domain classical sheet music, including the great works of famous composers. Not to be missed.
Chopin Files Used to have informative background and descriptions of most of Chopin pieces, with midi, rm, and pdf to download. At a time where there was a forum, the sheet music section provide many (classic and rare) beautiful piano (and violin and accompaniment) to download. Might not find it now, but maybe you can see a snapshot on archive.org
piano.ru Ultimate piano collection for russian composers (from solos to concertos, tsaikosky to rachmaniov)
chviolin.cn Its a must if you are a violinist. Its better if you understand Chinese (helps you navigate around the site). Relatively new site, but almost any good pieces for violin (and piano accompaniment) can be found.. Think its a continuation of a BBS violin scores site which went down.
William and Gayle Cook Music Library Library with many orchestra scores.
http://www.greatjsbach.net/Work.php3 Korean site on Bach music.
Another Free Sheetmusic Library of various orchestra, chamber, choral, keyboard works in public domain
International Music Score Library Project - Huge wiki virtual library of public domain music scores
C) More links to more
free-scores.com
free sheet music guide
Some are more commercial based, but you might find some free samples.. and of course pay if you want more
Virtual Sheet Music
Score on Line - Digital Sheet Music Library
http://notes.tarakanov.net/violin.htm Scans of violin music
http://www.pianosheets.org/ Sheet music via Bittorrent downloads
Search the files hosting provider
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_music
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