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)