Werner Icking Music Archive
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The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner Icking. At present the archive is held by Christian Mondrup.
WIMA offers primarily classical music, but the archive also contains jazz scores. WIMA is also the home site of MusiXTeX, a suite of open source music typesetting utilities based on the typesetting system TeX
The majority of the compositions represented in WIMA is early music. Some of the early music scores published in WIMA are the first modern editions of these compositions. A number of contemporary composers have chosen to publish their works in WIMA.
The older music offered in WIMA is out of copyright. The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting files.
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[edit] Other public domain music projects
- International Music Score Library Project - predominantly scans of out-of-copyright editions of music (closed since 19 October 2007 under threat of legal action).
- Choral Public Domain Library - focuses on choral and vocal music.
- Mutopia Project - scores typeset from public domain editions.
