Mutopia Project
| Web address |
www |
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| Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Music score library |
| Registration | No |
| Available in | English |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution / Share-Alike[1] |
Symphony No. 5 music sheet released by the Mutopia Project
The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books.
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:
- PDF format in both letter and A4 paper sizes for printing,
- MIDI for aural reproduction, and
- LilyPond source code format.
Currently, there are more than 1,800 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
- List of online music databases
- Public domain resources
- Open music
- Free content
- Project Gutenberg, a similar effort but for all cultural works, not just sheet music.
- International Music Score Library Project, a similar music cataloging project, that collects both typeset and scanned scores.
- Werner Icking Music Archive
- Choral Public Domain Library
- Wiki-score, an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mutopia. |
- Mutopia Project home page
- Mutopia Project mirror (Portugal)
- Project maintenance site
- Creative Commons Content Directory listing