Cantorion
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar, Violin, and many other instruments.
Categories: Classical, Christmas, a few others.
Catalog Size: Huge (900+)
Cantorion is a welcome addition to our directory. A very easy site to use to find free sheet music, which is all in easy-to-read PDF format. Every piece of music is free. You'll find all the favorites, from Canon in D to Ave Maria, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, Clair de Lune, The Entertainer and more. Added 05/27/2009.
The Choral Public Domain Library
Instrumentation for: Voice, Choral
Categories: Early Music, Choral
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
If you are a fan of early choral music, you simply must view the database at CPDL. There you'll find over 9,000
public domain choral works available for download, most in pdf, finale, or MIDI format. The database is searchable
by composer or title. In addition to familiar composers (Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Purcell) you'll find
choral music from earlier composers such as John Bartlet, William Byrd, Josquin, John Dowland, & Thomas Morley.
Validated 12/20/2007.
Church and Choral Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Organ, Voice, Choral
Categories: Christian, Classical, Christmas
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
This very interesting collection of church choral sheet music includes hymn arrangements, as well as Christmas
carols, anthems, responsorial psalms, chants, motets, organ works and descants. There are many notable selections in this mix of original and
classical/traditional works, including some more unusual works. A lot of great music to sort through for the church music fan. Sheet music available in high quality PDF format. Updated 01/04/2008
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cipoo.net
Instrumentation for: Voice, Choral,
Piano
Categories: Classical, Early Music,
Christmas, Traditional
Catalog Size: Very Large (1500+)
Choral and vocal enthusiasts will enjoy this
large collection sheet music for early, classical,
Christmas and traditional works. Features
choral music by Arcadelt, Bach, Lotti, Palestrina and many
others with lots more on the way. Downloads available in PDF,
Noteworthy Composer, and MIDI format. Some MP3 downloads available as well. Updated
12/17/2007.
Classical
Sheet Music 'Piece of the Month'
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This MSN group (registration is required) contains a nice collection of classical works you don't
usually find on the net. Includes sheet music for piano by Bertini, Rubinstein, Kirnberger, Satie, Barber, Griffes,
Wernicke and more. Every month a new selection is added. You may also enjoy the chat room and message board. This
site gets a 'bonus' award simply for offering a unique selection of downloads. All files in high quality, PDF format.
Updated 12/20/2007.
Copy-Us: Internet Music Publishing
Instrumentation for: Piano, Voice, Strings, Wind
& Orchestra
Categories: Classical, Original
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Copy-Us is an Internet publishing house that publishes the works of composers free of charge via the Internet.
All scores are free for download (in fact, you are encouraged to distribute them) and are in VERY high quality
PDF format. Each score is marked to indicate difficultly, which ranges from very easy to very difficult, and you
can view sheet music by instrument or composer. Copy-Us is a great concept that is very well executed. Updated 02/02/2005.
David
Coester Meanton: Classical Guitar
Instrumentation for: Classical
Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
If
I were a classical guitarist, I would be very grateful
for the excellent material guitarist David Coester
provides at his web site. You'll find free
PDF downloads of several complete folios
from the 19th century, all dedicated to
the guitar soloist. Very possibly one of the
finest strictly classical guitar collections
listed in this directory. Updated 12/20/2007.
Delcamp.net:
Classical Guitar Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Classical
Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Classical guitarists
will really enjoy the free sheet music offerings from
Delcamp.net. Offered are a wide variety of classical
guitar selections from the Renaissance, Baroque,
Romantic, Modern and Contemporary periods.
Composers include Albeniz, Carulli, Mozart,
Paganini, Mudarra, Dowland, Scarlatti, Bach
and so many more. Added 06/11/2004.
Dirk's
Guitar Page: Free Music for
Classical Guitar
Instrumentation for: Classical
& Latin Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's
another great web site devoted
to Classical guitar. It's a
very large archive of high quality
PDFs featuring music from Classical
as well as comtemporary composers.
Lots of latin guitar music scores
as well. Added 12/20/2007.
Easy Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, Popular, Boogie & Blues, Opera Classics, National Songs
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
One of the great things about Easy Sheet Music is that every song is arranged for easy piano.
Secondly, the selection is fairly large. Thirdly, there's some great music here! The 'Boogie and Blues' selections
are highly recommended for something a bit different, but you'll find lot's of easy to play classical works, too.
At Easy Sheet Music, you can download any three tunes per day for free. Unlimited download access to all the pieces
all the time is $15/year. Verified 02/21/2008.
Free Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular, Classical, Christmas
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This is a no frills web site with lots of Google ads. But if you look just beyond that, there's also a lot of free sheet music, offered in order of difficulty. The list starts with "First Pieces" which you barely need to know how to read sheet music to play. From there, you move up to the "Primer Level" and then Levels 1-4 and "Keyboard Classics." You'll know virtually every song
on this site, which contains lots of popular "traditional" tunes (Bridal March, Mexican Hat Dance, Old MacDonald), Christmas tunes (We Three Kings, Away in a Manger, Silent Night) and Classical tunes (Ode to Joy, Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise). There's a lot here for beginning piano students. All sheet music is in PDF format and MIDI files are also provided. Added 02/21/2008.
International
Music Scores Library Project
Instrumentation for: Piano,
Quartets, Chamber, Symphony, Strings -
virtually everything.
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Huge (2000+)
The IMSLP is a terrific
collection of public domain piano
works in PDF format. You'll find
well over 2000 works, browseable
by composer name, time period or
genre. There's a bit of everything
here, from solo piano works all
the way to symphonic works. A great
find for fans of classical sheet
music and scores. Added 03/22/2007.
Free Sheetmusic Library
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+)
Here you'll find a very large selection of public domain classical works for download. These include
orchestral works (symphonies, concertos, overtures, etc.), chamber music, piano works, organ works and sacred music.
Large collections by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, Handel, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, and others. All sheet music
in PDF format. There's enough here to keep you busy for quite awhile. Updated
06/21/2005.
Finale
Showcase
Instrumentation for: Piano, Solo Instruments, Strings,
Brass, Band, More...
Categories: All
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
The popular
Finale showcase site allows Finale software users to upload their songs, arrangements, and compositions for shared viewing, playing and transposing. The result is this huge directory
filled with mostly easy sheet music arrangements for nearly all instruments in nearly every category. Classical
music includes everything from Baroque, to Renaissance, Medieval and 20th century tunes. You'll find contemporary
Christian music, gospel, children's music, country and rock music, rap music, show tunes, broadway, as well as
soundtracks and holiday music. Instrumentation includes not only solo instruments, but arrangements for brass band,
chamber, choir, handbells, and even percussion. Browse by category or instrumentation. You'll need Finale installed
(which is free for download) to view and print the scores.
Updated 12/20/2007.
The Guitar
School
Instrumentation for: Classical Guitar
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
The Guitar School, founded by classical guitarist Eythor Thorlaksson, features hundreds of high quality classical
guitar transcriptions. You'll find entire sheet music collections free for download, from beginner guitar studies
to complex pieces for two, three or four guitars. Lots to choose from including classical guitar arrangements of
music by Bach, Scarlatti, Albeniz and much more. Very highly recommended for classical guitarists. Updated 06/21/2005.
mfiles
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, Ragtime,
Original, Christmas
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
mfiles offers visitors a very nice collection of high-quality free
classical sheet music featuring music from Bach, Beethoven, Byrd,
Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Satie, Tallis
and many more. In addition, mfiles has an attractive collection of Christmas music, as well as original sheet music
- most notably some very compelling pieces from composer Jim Paterson. These original works include music for film and television, as well as a number
of selections in the Jazz, Ragtime, Celtic, and Latin music genres. Sheet
music is provided in Scorch format (see site for details) allowing you to play, transpose, and change
instrumentation on the fly. You
can also "Print" (and
download) most of the music
in PDF format. Music for most selections are also available in MIDI format, and you'll also
find detailed information about the various composers. Updated 12/20/2007.
Music-Scores.com
Instrumentation for: Piano, Violin, Sax, Clarinet,
Flute, Many Others
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (500+)
Music-Scores.com is a fantastic resource for those looking for free classical sheet music. This well-organized
repository features all the greats, including music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pachabel,
Schubert, and Tchaikovsky. Search by composer, instrument or style. Listings include notes on level of difficulty.
Music-Scores.com offers nearly
300 scores for free in PDF and
Scorch format, but if you sign
up as a member ($30/year) you
can access their library of
over 1800 scores. In addition to the well-stocked
library of free sheet music you'll find a discussion board
and chat room. Updated 12/20/2007.
Noteworthy Composer Scriptorium
Instrumentation for: Piano, Strings, Orchestra and Many Others
Categories: Classical, Christmas, Traditional Folk, Ragtime, Tin Pan Alley
Catalog Size: Very Large (1000+)
Users of Noteworthy
Composer, the software music notation software, will appreciate
the NCS database of compositions ranging from Classical to Christmas, Folk and Ragtime. There are over 1000 compositions
here, and the database is completely searchable. Or, if you prefer, browse by genre or composer. In addition to
the many *.nwc downloads, you'll find Noteworthy Tips & Tricks, an FAQ, and links to NWC forums, newsgroups
and other resources. Note that Noteworthy Composer is required to view these free downloads. The scriptorium provides
a link to download and install the free Noteworthy Browser Plug-In
for those interested in viewing the files. Updated 03/11/2002.
Paul's Free Guitar Scores
Instrumentation for: Classical Guitar
Categories: Classical, Original
Catalog Size: Medium (25-50)
Here's a great find for classical guitar players! Guitarist Paul Palmer has transcribed many of Scott Joplin's piano rags as well as Bach's keyboard works to guitar. You'll also find transcriptions for music by Grieg, Lamb and many of Paul's original works. All songs also include an MP3 so you can hear what it should sound like. Highly recommended! Added 04/05/2008.
Rowy.net
Solo Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano,
Organ, Flute, Violin, many more....
Categories: Classical,
Original
Catalog Size: Very
Large (500+)
A treasure trove of
sheet music from both the classical and modern
era. A wide variety of instrumentation, with
sheet music provided in high quality PDF format.
There's so much good stuff to choose from. Don't
miss this one! Added 12/08/2004.
The Sheet Music
Archive
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Huge (5000+)
The Sheet Music Archive is a huge archive of public domain classical music. You'll find downloadable sheet music
from your favorite composers, including Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Hanon, Mozart, Verdi and many, many more.
One of the reason this site is one of our top picks is its simplicy. It's very easy to find what you're looking
for, quickly, without a lot of hassle. The design is also easy on the eyes, and simple to navigate. Sheet music
provided in *.pdf format, most scanned from various piano collections prior to 1923. Download sheet music for free
(up to 2 per day) or sign
up as a member for $19.95 a
year and download as many as
you want. A CD containing all
the sheet music is available
for order for $24.95. Updated 12/20/2007.
SibeliusMusic.com
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar, Voice, Strings, Winds, Big
Band, Etc.
Categories: Classical, Historical, Christian, Christmas, Original
Catalog Size: Huge
SibeliusMusic.com is the sheet music home of Scorch software
by Sibelius. The advantages of the site, when you have the free software plug-in, are many. For example, you can
transpose any song instantly, change instrumentation, and actually listen to the song while you view the music
with the click of the button. At the Sibelius site you'll find tens
of thousands of sheet music selections. Most of these
are for sale (they provide the first page free), within each category (which
includes Classical, Jazz, Pop/Rock, Eductional
and Worship) you'll find plenty of free sheet music titles
to download. Unfortunately, Sibelius does not currently have a 'free' sheet music category to browse, meaning the
only way to find the free sheet music is to browse through the 'pay' sheet music. Still,
this is very simple to do and
the free music is plentiful.
Sibelius does provide a search
tool as well, so if you're looking for a particular piece, it's quite easy to find it. Nice site, nice design.
Recommended for a visit. Updated 07/02/2007.
ZIMMUSIC
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar (solo and duo), Flute, Violin
& More
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Huge (2000+)
At ZIMMUSIC you'll find a very large, searchable collection of classical works in Noteworthy and
PDF format. There's a
lot of great stuff here, by a wide variety of composers, many of whom are not represented well elsewhere on the
Internet. Highly recommended
due to the variety and uniqueness
of the sheet music library.
Updated 07/02/2007.
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