Public Domain music..

Richardrichard9 · Post by **Richardrichard9** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:04 pm

Where do I find public domain sheet music... The likes of Beethoven and Mozart?

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:16 pm

This is a good place to start
http://icking-music-archive.org/

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:27 pm

Lot of scores that were on the old IMSLP are here:

http://www.bh2000.net/score/

Get while the getting is good.

corbasse · Post by **corbasse** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:09 pm

I've collected the sites with free scores I found on del.icio.us, ranging from big sites like icking and imslp to small collections of obscure medieval facsimiles:
http://del.icio.us/scbbib/free
105 sites and counting...

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:28 pm

Here's one:

http://www.8notes.com/classical/

You can view or print as gif image, copy and paste into Word document, or... subscribe @ $20/yr and download a pdf file. I choose to paste the gif into a Word doc, then print a pdf copy to my desktop using 'cute pdf writer' (free and installs like a printer). They recently added mp3 files as well.

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:19 am

tubashaman wrote:Or just go to your local college music library and make copies

but be sure the individual scores you're copying are actually in the public domain.

(Yes, the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, et al. is in the public domain; individual transcriptions and arrangements of their music, however, are[/i] copyrightable, and therefore may be protected under copyright law.)

corbasse · Post by **corbasse** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:12 am

btw, you mentioned Mozart:

The entire New Mozart Edition (The official urtext edition used by serious musicians and scholars) is available for free, for personal and educational use:
http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l=2