Free Sheet Music on the Internet
(Updated on 12/21/08) Thanks to Susan M. Mason
Each listed website was active when added to the list, but websites are sometimes discontinued or moved to different Web addresses.
- www.icking-music-archive.org/index.html (Werner Icking Music Archive)
- www.8notes.com (free sheet music and sheet music by subscription)
- www.acadiau.ca/~gcallon/www/site-map.htm (Acadia Early Music Resources)
- http://anaigeon.free.fr/e_index.html (Alain Naigeon's site for Renaissance Music)
- www.angelfire.com/ca2/Herbsrecordermusic/index.html (Herb Wurtzel's free recorder music scores)
- http://arenai.free.fr/Database.htm (vocal music from the French Renaissance)
- www.christmas-carol-music.org
- www.cipoo.net (Public Domain Choral Music)
- www.classicalarchives.com (free sheet music and sheet music by subscription)
- www.cpdl.org (Choral Public Domain Library)
- http://home.earthlink.net/~cornetto45/ (Charlie Jackson's music pages)
- www.flauto-dolce.it (Flauto Dolce, music for recorder and other instruments)
- www.freesheetmusic.net (free sheet music and links to many other sites)
- www.geocities.jp/loverecder (Love Schubert's site for pdf files of classical music arranged for recorder groups.)
- www.kantoreiarchiv.de/startox.html (select "Archiv - Archive (Ordner - Folder)" at top left of page)
- www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html (Laura Conrad's site)
- www.lysator.liu.se/~tuben/scores (Johan Tufvesson's site) www.meantone.com/MusicDownloads/Downloads.html (MeanTone Guitar Studio, guitar music)
- http://mfiles.co.uk/scores (mfiles free sheet music site)
- www.musicaviva.com/index.html (Musica Viva)
- www.music-scores.com/free/freesheetmusic.php (subscription and some free sheet music)
- www.mutopiaproject.org/browse.html (Mutopia Project, free classical and contemporary sheet music)
- www.mysheetmusic.com
- www.oldmusicproject.com (The Old Music Project)
- www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft (The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft)
- www.pjperry.freeuk.com/music.htm (Philip Perry's Music Page, bass recorder solos)
- www.saers.com/recorder (The Recorder Player's Page)
- http://www.saers.com/recorder/mondrup Christian Mondrup and Annette Mondrup, recorder music)
- http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks (Steve Hendricks Music Collection)
- http://sheetmusicarchive.net/index.cfm (The Sheet Music Archive, free sheet music and sheet music by subscription)
- www.sheetmusicfox.com
- www.solovoces.com (Grupo Vocal Solo Voces, select "Datos Partituras" at top left of page)
- www.upv.es/coro/victoria/english.html (Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/291 (Sibley Music Library at The Eastman School of Music)
- www.xprt.net/~vox/Music/Music.html (Brian's Music Page, Renaissance Music)
Sites for midi files:
- www.curtisclark.org/emusic (Curtis Clark Renaissance Band, midi files))
- www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/index.html (The Classical Midi Connection, midi files)
- www.prairiefrontier.com/pfcards/Xtrapgs/midi.html (midi files of Christmas and patriotic music)
- www.recorderhomepage.net/midi.html (midi files)
Subscription sites (some very cheap):
- www.8notes.com/subscriptions/ (free beginner's recorder course, some free recorder sheet music)
- http://classicaland.com/
- www.digitalmusiclibrary.com/
- http://www.music-scores.com/
- www.sheetmusicarchive.net/ (free sheet music and sheet music by subscription)
Sites for Music Theory:
- www.dolmetsch.com/introduction.htm
- www.musicarrangers.com/star-theory
- www.music.msu.edu/musicnotation/index.php
- www.theviolinsite.com/music_dictionary/index.html (music dictionary)
- www.wikipedia.org (Type in the name of the music topic you want to read about (for example, "meantone temperament," "shape note music," "Praetorius"). Caveat: Pages are user-written and the information may not be entirely accurate.
Other Useful Sites:
- http://burbankband.org/SCRS/pop_brenda_notes.html (Brenda Bittner's article "Notes on Finding Early Music on the Internet for Printing or Practicing")
- http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/ (Musica Antiqua's site with photos of instruments from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, together with mp3s of the instruments being played)