mardi 22 octobre 2013

Free and open source music score? It's possible!

Hi all,

Occasionally, I play violin. So, I searched good websites to pick my scores. I found some interessant sites:

- The International Music Score Library Project (abbreviated imslp): A very big library. It run like a wiki. Anyone can upload his scanned score. Imslp is based in Canada and Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the composer or other author. So, you can't found recent jobs. For the baroque, romantic or classical period, you can find very good score. (see http://imslp.org/wiki/Public_domain or http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:About for more information about licenses). It group 7 612 different author (so, much score :) ). Most of this score is scanned, and usually handwrriten.

- The Mutopia Project: This project make computer-based score with LilyPond (you can also download midi and pdf versions). All the works is under Creative-Commons licenses. When I write this, you can found 1770 differents scores.

- The Choral Wiki: A wiki with very much vocal works. All the scores is under the CPDL license (a fork of the GNU Public License).

- Musescore: Musescore is a tool to create and edit score (it's aviable in the fedora repository). It propose also a space to share music scores. You can chose your licence (many works are under restrictive license, but some works is under opensource licenses)

If you have some suggestions, post a comment!

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