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The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content
Internet Archive
Retrieved January 24, 2001. The music is reproduced from old scores that are in the public domain. New scores are digitally typeset with
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an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing Collaborative projects Online music and lyrics databases Libre culture Internet properties established in 2000 Canadian music websites {{music-website-stub
The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses List of musical symbols, musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chord (music), chords of a song or instrumental Musical composition, musical piece. Like ...
, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books. It started in 2000.Portal page at thInternet Archive
Retrieved January 24, 2001. The music is reproduced from old scores that are in the public domain. New scores are digitally typeset with
GNU LilyPond
LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.
LilyPond is cross-pla ...
and distributed in the following formats:
* PDF format
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe Systems, Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, Computer hardware, ...
in both letter and A4 paper sizes for printing,
* MIDI for aural reproduction, and
* LilyPond source code format.
Currently, there are more than 2,000 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
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...
* Open music
Open music is music that is shareable, available in "source code" form, allows derivative works and is free of cost for non-commercial use. It is the concept of "open source" computer software applied to music. However, the non-commercial stipu ...
* International Music Score Library Project, a similar music cataloging project, that collects both typeset and scanned scores.
*Werner Icking Music Archive
The Werner Icking Music Archive (often abbreviated WIMA) is a web archive of liberally licensed sheet music of public domain music. The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting ...
* Choral Public Domain Library
References
External links
Mutopia Project home page
an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing Collaborative projects Online music and lyrics databases Libre culture Internet properties established in 2000 Canadian music websites {{music-website-stub