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Thanks for visiting and welcome! We've spent countless hours searching the net for the best free sheet music downloads
available! Each month
we feature new sheet music and guitar tablature
recommendations! Here are our latest additions!
Jubings
Compositions and Transcriptions
Instrumentation for: Classical Guitar
Categories: Classical, Original
Catalog Size: Medium (25-50)
Jubings web site contains classical guitar transcriptions for both original and classical works. Classical compositions
include works by Tarrega, Carulli, Boccherini, and Elgar. Transcriptions are mostly handwritten (but easy to read) made available in a downloadable
gif format. MIDI files for each piece are also available. Updated 04/03/2008.
Free Sheet Piano Music in PDF, MIDI and Video
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories:
Classical
Catalog Size: Small
(10-25)
Once you get past the Google ads that dominate the web site, you'll find two dozen very high quality PDFs of many traditional classical songs, most of which are very simple arrangements. You'll find Canon in D, Ode to Joy, Fur Elise, Ave Maria, Albinoni's Adagio, Moonlight Sonata and more. New songs are added weekely. Added 04/03/2008.
Edward Weiss: Free Piano Sheet Music in the New Age Style
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories:
Original,
New Age
Catalog Size: Small
(10-25)
Pianist Edward Weiss has put together an excellent blog where he offers selections of his "New Age" style piano sheet music for download. All files are in high-quality PDF format. Most files are accompanied by an MP3 of Edward playing the piece. A real nice blog and a great find! Added 03/20/2008.
FreeSheet Music from Johan Tufvesson
Instrumentation for: Violin, Viola, Bass, Flute, Oboe
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
A nice, varied collection of sheet music arrangements for strings from the 17th and 18th century. You'll find works
here you won't find elsewhere - this is not your typical collection with the usual favorites. Very high quality
PDF downloads, recommended especially for violinists looking for something a bit different to work on. Updated 03/14/2008.
Dots4Strings: String Quartet Music
Instrumentation for: String Quartet
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Very Small (1-10)
Dots4Strings is a very nice web site, specializing in music for String Quartets. Most of their catalog is for sale, rather than free, however they do have a small section of freebies that they offer to visitors. Free scores include music from Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Tchaikovsky. All music in Sibelius Scortch format. Added 03/14/2008.
Words and Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here you'll find one pianists own arrangements of a number of popular tunes. To quote the pianist, "Words & Music started 6 years ago when I couldn't find any popular sheets for the songs I really like. So I tried my hand with arranging
the songs, created some music sheets -- and decided to share it by making this site." A great collection of sheet music. Updated 03/06/2008.
Free Guitar
Tips & Tabs by Bob Houlston
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Classical, Traditional, Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
It's not a large tab site, but it's a very good one, designed for beginners on the guitar. Bob's site has one of
the most detailed, easy to read explanations I've seen on how to read guitar tab, and the site, overall, is a perfect
place to just pick up your guitar and start getting familiar with reading tab notation. The selection of songs
is good too, with everything from Air on the G String to
Music Box Waltz and House of the Rising Sun.
Other featurings include guitar maintenance tips, playing styles, and many other extras. Verified
02/21/2008.
TabRobot
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature
Categories: Popular, Rock, Alternative, Others
Catalog Size: Huge (Searches 850,000+ tabs)
TabRobot isn't a site so much as it is a meta-search engine which searches mulitple tab databases (such as GuitareTAB,
Olga, Guitar Tab Universe and others) simultaneously. The end result is that rather than visiting several sites to find
the guitar tab you're looking for, you can search in one single place. You can also browse by band name. A very
extensive and useful resource. 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.
VirtualSheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Violin, Sax, Trumpet, Cello, Viola,
Clarinet, Others
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Small (50+) free catalog, Large (1200+) pay catalog
VSM is primarily dedicated to classical sheet music and offers
a very impressive collection of downloadable sheet music from selected composers. While VSM has a large pay catalog
for sale, they offer about sixty free downloadable demos from Bach, Chopin, Joplin, Mendelssohn and others.
These are all VERY high quality scores. Sheet music from the remaining catalog is available for purchase individually,
or you can pay a small membership fee ($37.75) to have access to all the sheet music scores you want. All sheet music is
carefully catagorized by composer, instrument, ensemble, category, or skill level. A good solid collection of popular
works. Updated 02/05/2008.
Violin Online
Instrumentation for: Violin
Categories: Classical, Christmas
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Violin Online is an instructional site for beginning violinists,
and includes educational material on fingering, bow placement, music fundamentals and more. Included in the sites
'Excercise Studio' are a dozen etudes for violin, including works by Bach, Wohlfahrt, and Sitt. In the "music store" you'll also find
a nice selection of easy violin selections for the Christmas season. Updated 02/05/2008.
Violin Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Violin
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
If you're a violist, you'll find lots to choose from here. Scores are included from Beethoven, Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Paganini, Tchaikovsky and a dozen others. Some scores are solo violin, some come with piano accompaniment. All scores are in PDF format, scanned in from books by the look of it. The quality of the scans vary. Added 02/05/2008.
Michael
Bednarek's Mozart Files
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, Christmas
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Michael Bednarek's collection features hundreds of
free sheet music downloads (and MIDI) produced by MOZART music notation software. Of particular note you'll find a majority
of the pieces from Le nozze di Figaro Mozart's famous Opera, as well as other works from both Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart, Bach,
Hadyn, and a other composers. Finally, the MOZART files features a nice selection of Christmas music, free for download.
All sheet music is available in Mozart, MIDI, and PDF format. Updated 01/10/2008
Music Editions by Christoph Dalitz
Instrumentation for: Choir, Organ, Harp, Lute, Guitar, Violin, Recorder
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Here's a small, but very nice collection of sheet music featuring choir (mostly) joined by one or more other instruments. Selections include Psalms, canticles, motets, prayers, madrigals and songs for Mass. Mostly original works by Christoph Dalitz, all in high quality PDF format. Added 01/10/2008.
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
Richard Harris: Free Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano (other instrumentation optional)
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Richard is an arranger and transcriptionist who will take any classical, folk or ragtime piece you give him and either transcribe it for you, or rearrange it for simpler (or more difficult) arrangement. He can also arrange any tune for any instrument you choose. If you sign up for his mailing list, he also gives you access to his personal online library of about sixty classical arrangements, ranging from Grades 1-8 and featuring music
by Allegri, Back, Bartok, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and many others. Files are in *.tif format. Added 01/04/2008.
Music Education Magic
Instrumentation for: Full
Band Scores
Categories: Classical,
Pop, Christmas
Catalog Size: Small (33 as
of this writing)
Folks looking for complete
band scores in particular will find something
to please here at Music Education Magic. Complete
scores are included in both PDF and Sibelius
formats for a large number of Christmas tunes
plus many traditional favorites such as Amazing
Grace, The Star-Spangled Banner, Ode to Joy,
Dixie, Alouette and others. Added 12/28/2007.
Faithsing
Christian Music
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
At Faithsing Christian
Music you'll find a dozen original Christian
worship songs for guitar and voice.
Sheet music (PDF Format) and MP3 downloads
of each on the songs is available. Added 12/26/2007.
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.
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Issue 67
An
Online Christmas Songbook
Instrumentation for: Piano
& Voice
Categories: Christmas
Catalog Size: Medium (100+)
Years ago, An Online
Christmas Songbook was one of our favorite
places to find Christmas Carols... and then
the web site up and disappeared. Now, we
have discovered, it is back! It's a simple
web site that provides four part sheet music
(hymn style) for just over 100 popular Christmas
favorites. The site couldn't be easier to
use. All sheet music in *.gif format, ready
to print out. Added 12/20/2007.
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.
Blank
Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: None
Categories: Any
Catalog Size: Special
This
is a VERY cool, totally free web site for
anyone who scores their own music and/or tabs.
In just seconds, you can create blank music
sheets in virtually any format, and them print
them out for scoring. Music teachers and students
will find this an invaluable resource! Updated
12/17/2007
Matthew
Dewey
Instrumentation for: Chamber
Orchestra, Choir, Clarinet, Harp, Tuba, Pipe
Organ, Viola, Guitar
Categories:
Original, Classical
Catalog Size: Very Small (Less
than
10)
Film and theatrical score composer
Matthew Dewey offers free sheet music of a few
of his scores from his web site. These include
Chamber Music as well as sheet music for choir,
clarinet, harp, pipe organ, and solo viola with
a guitar quartet. All sheet music scores in
PDF format. Added 12/17/2007.
Gotta
Sing!
Instrumentation for: Vocal,
Handbells, Piano, Organ
Categories: Christian,
Christmas
Catalog Size: Small
(25-50)
A nice selection of sheet music vocal arrangements for church use, including
some hymns and Christmas tunes. Sheet music
available in PDF and finale format. MIDI files
available as well. Added 12/10/2007.
Free
Blank Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Any
Categories: All
Catalog Size: NA
If you're in need of blank pages
to start scoring on, whether that be for piano,
guitar or bass, you need look no further. Print
out all you want here. Added 12/05/2007
Jazzbone
Records
Instrumentation for: Piano
& Voice
Categories: Original,
Jazz
Catalog Size: Small
(25-50)
At the Jazzbone Records web
site, you'll find almost three dozen
free sheet music downloads
from jazz composer Stuart
Tresser. All sheet music is
downloadable in *.jpg format.
Songs include
Misty Sea of Love, Spider
Blue, Dream With Me, June
Moon
and others.
The compositions appear to be
for intermediate level
pianists - most of the works
are not overly complex. CDs of
the works are available,
performed by the Hank Johnson
Trio.
Updated
07/25/2007.
Calm-Down-Corner
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Original
Catalog Size: Small (Currently,
less than a dozen)
At
"Calm-Down-Corner" you
will find a small selction of original free piano sheet music for download. The intentionally short
pieces can offer a change from the classical teaching material and are also
suitable for electric piano and keyboard with rhythmic accompaniment. On an
advanced level they may be the base for further improvisation. Each piece is
also available as an audio file (mp3) which can be used for training purposes
Added 07/25/2007.
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.
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.
Scores
for Free
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here's a simple, easy-to-navigate
site featuring a few dozen classical scores
from Beethoven, Bizet, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn,
Mozart, Rameau, Satie, Schubert, Strauss and
Tchaikovsky. Scores are in PDF format, and you
can preview the tunes or download them as MIDI
files. Added 07/02/2007.
MySheetMusic.com
Instrumentation for: Piano, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Trumpet,
Clarinet, More
Categories: Classical, Hymns, Children's, Christmas, Folk
Catalog Size: Medium
- Very Large. Very large catalog, but just 100
free scores.
MySheetMusic.com has one of the highest quality, most complete catalogs of sheet music for piano and other
instruments that we've reviewed. However,
to see more than 100 free scores, you need to
sign up for a platinum membership, which is
$29.95 per year. Once you do that, you'll have
access to over 1200 scores that you can view,
listen to, transpose, and print out. While a majority of the pieces are classical, there is a considerable
selection of music from other categories including Ragtime, Hymns, Children, Folk, and Christmas. All selections are available
in Scorch format. Updated 06/22/2007.
Free
Music Scores
Instrumentation for: Brass,
Horns, Organ and Winds
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here's a really nice
collection of classical music arrangements for
brass and horns, especially. Scores available
for brass trios, quartets, large horn ensembles,
winds, organ, harpsichord and more. Sheet
music offered in scores and parts in PDF format.
Updated
06/22/2007.
RUF
Hymnbook Online Hymn Resource
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature, Lead
Sheets, Piano
Categories: Hymns
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's a fantastic site
containing modern arrangements of a large number
of classic hymns. Downloads include chord charts,
lead sheets and in many cases, piano sheet music.
You can also listen to the songs demos. If you're
a worship leader that loves hymns, and wants
to lead them with a modern twist, here you go.
Added 05/09/2007.
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.
Alain
Mayrand
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Modern
Classical
Catalog Size: Small (1
per month)
Composer Alain Mayrand
offers one free sheet music selection a month
of his music (in PDF format) if you sign up
for his newsletter. When you sign up, you can
specify beginner, intermediate or advanced. Added
03/06/2007
 Christian
Music 4 Praise and Worship
Instrumentation for: Guitar
(mostly chord charts), Some Piano
Categories: Christian,
Worship
Catalog Size: Huge (Over
4000 as of this writing)
Here's one of the best
of the Christian praise and worship
music sheet music sites we've seen
of late. Worship leaders post their
original songs to the site, and
include MP3s, sheet music, chord
charts and lyric sheets. Not every
song has every option, but there's
a very large selection here to browse
through. A GREAT resource for worship
leaders looking for new music that's
legal to use and download. Added
02/23/2007.
Quatre
Mains: Piano for Four Hands
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Quatre-mains.net aims to build a library of at least 100 free scores for piano
for
four hands, publishing one new selection a week. As of this writing, there are
about twenty. The scores are scanned from books,
so while the printed quality could be better,
the scores are still readable. These would make
fun exercises for accomplished pianists. Added
02/20/2007.
Grigor
Iliev's Free Sheet Music for Piano
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
/ Contemporary Piano
Catalog Size: Very Small (2
as of this writing)
Grigor
offers free sheet music from two of his solo
piano works (mp3s available)
at his web site. If you enjoy modern classical music and love the soft touch of soothing piano
sounds, here you'll find music that touches your
soul and reaches your mind. The
downloadable files are in very high quality
PDF or png format. Reviewed
10/25/2006.
Free
Music Scores
Instrumentation for: Brass,
Horns, Organ and Winds
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here's a really nice
collection of classical music arrangements for
brass and horns, especially. Scores available
for brass trios, quartets, large horn ensembles,
winds, organ, harpsichord and more. Sheet
music offered in scores and parts in PDF format.
Reviewed
10/24/2006.
SDG
Music Ministry
Instrumentation for: Piano
and Voice
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Dan Meredith, of SDG
Music Ministry, offers free sheet music (PDF
format) and MP3 downloads of his original
worship music. About twenty tunes in sheet music
are available as of this writing. Reviewed
10/23/2006.
Free
Sheet Music for Brass
Instruments
Instrumentation for: Brass
Instruments
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
A small, but nice collection
of sheet music in PDF format for brass instruments.
Selections include solos, duets, trios, quartets,
quintets, sextets, and full band scores. Sheet
music is free to use, courtesy of the St. George
Brass Band of Sydney, Australia. Reviewed 08/18/2006.
Free
Worship Music . com
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature,
Lead Sheets
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
A nice collection of
original worship music by several different
worship leaders. Stream or download the songs,
and then download the lead sheets/chord charts
you like. Power Point presentations with the
lyrics are also provided for church use. Added
08/07/2006.
Brian
Kelly
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Original,
New Age
Catalog Size: Very Small (Currently only 1 Selection, but more to follow) This New Age/Classical pianist offers one of his original compositions
for free download in PDF format. Added
07/26/2006.
Denise
B's Quarterly Free Sheet Music Download
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories:
Original,
New Age,
Traditional
Catalog Size: Very Small (1
featured selections each quarter)
Once a quarter, Denise offers her fans a new
selection of free original
sheet music.
Selections
provided are intermediate
level. Lots of other song selections
for sale, as well. Updated
02/24/2006.
Songs
of Praise, Worship and Encouragement
Instrumentation for: Piano & Voice
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
If you like music with that 'old southern gospel' flair you might enjoy these praise and worship choruses written
by Harry Reinders. Harry has made about four dozen of his original choruses available for viewing, listening and
downloading from his web site. Click
on the "Music Ministry" button and
fill out the short form to view the music. Sheet
music is in PDF and *.gif format. MIDI and MP3
files of the songs are available. Updated 01/19/2006.
Abacci
Music
Instrumentation for: Tin
Whistle, Harmonica, Cello, Mandolin and Guitar
Categories: Celtic/Traditional
Catalog Size: Large
(100-500)
This delightful
web site is dedicated to Irish, Celtic and World
music. There are hundreds of tabs as well as
MIDI files, and sheet music can be viewed alphabetically,
by key, or even by traditional rhythm style.
If you love Celtic music and have the instrument
for it, this site is dream come true. Added
06/22/2005.
PW
Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christian
Praise and Worship
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
A fantastic catalog of guitar
tablature for contemporary praise and worship
music. As of this writing, the PW Archive contains
over 2400 tabs for both original and popular
worship songs. The site is a wonderful resource
for worship leaders, who can create and save
their own worship music sets online. You can
even view others' worship sets if you like.
Also available is a great selection of articles
on worship leading. Added 06/22/2005.
Blank
Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: None
Categories: Any
Catalog Size: Special
This
is a VERY cool, totally free web site for
anyone who scores their own music and/or tabs.
In just seconds, you can create blank music
sheets in virtually any format, and them print
them out for scoring. Music teachers and students
will find this an invaluable resource! Added
06/22/2005.
Polymnia
Records
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Small
(10-25)
According to the Polymnia
Records' web site, they are the only record company that
has released the complete solo piano music collection
of Sigismund Thalberg, the only rival to Franz Liszt.
Samples of Thalberg's music can be downloaded
here (full scores are $1), but there are also
a few complete scores from Erik Satie,
Franz Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Badarzewska,,
Godard, Rimsky-Korsakow, Hagg, Brahms and Beethoven.
Added 06/22/2005.
Family
Worship Resources
Instrumentation for: Piano
and Guitar
Categories: Christian Worship
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Family Worship Resources is a UK based, non-profit organization providing songs
and other resources to help all ages in the church worship together. At the
web site you'll find several dozen original
worship songs, all in PDF format with MP3 audio
so you can hear the songs as well.
A really nice web site. Added 06/22/2005.
Jazz for Worship
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here you'll find 70+ original songs that express Christian faith and belief. Songs are in a variety of musical
styles, including Jazz, Bossa, Pop, Classical and more. Downloadable scores are available for each song in PDF
format, and if you wish, you can also download ALL the songs in three
separate books. A four part harmony score version
is available, as well as overhead projector slides. MP3 and MIDI files are also available so you can hear how the
lyrics fit together with the music. Updated 06/22/2005.
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 06/21/2005.
Alamance
CreekMusic: New Age and
Romantic Piano
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Original, New
Age
,
'Romantic'
Catalog Size: Large
(100-500)
New Age pianist Leslie Wagle
is offering free sheet music
samples from her many original
piano collections. Those of
you unfamiliar with Leslie's
beautiful works will
appreciate the transcriptions
- straightforward, very easy
to read, and varying in
difficulty from intermediate
to advanced. Very high quality
PDFs and transcriptions, and
many, many to select from.
Scroll down and click on the
butterfly icons to get to the
sheet music. Highly
recommended. Updated
06/21/2005.
Anne
Ku - Original Sheet Music
Compositions
Instrumentation for: Piano,
Voice
Categories: Original
Music
Catalog Size: Small
(10-25)
Here you'll find free sheet
music for a number of original
compositions by composer Anne
Ku. Click on the song title
link for a song description
and links to sound files and
scores. Scores available in
varying formats, typically
*gif or *pdf. Very high
quality work. Updated
06/21/2005.
The Gospel Music Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Christian, Christmas, Children
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+?)
Here you'll find a very large,
well-organized selection of worship tablature for guitar. Music is
sorted alphabetically for easy browsing. While the site is predominantly dedicated to gospel, worship and praise
music, you'll also find a nice selection of other songs. There's an entire section for kids, as well as a large
quantity of Christmas
carols. Updated 06/21/2005.
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.
Updated 06/21/2005.
mfiles
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, 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. Downloadable sheets are provided in *.pdf format,
and all are also available in Scorch format (see site for details) allowing you to play, transpose, and change
instrumentation on the fly. Music for most selections are also available in MIDI or MP3 format, and you'll also
find detailed information about the various composers. Updated 06/21/2005.
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.
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.
Easy Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, 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. Updated
06/21/2005.
Christian Classics Ethereal
Hymnary
Instrumentation for: Piano, Choral
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
This collection of classic hymns (all public domain) includes over 1000 songs in traditional four part
harmony. Each selection includes a Noteworthy Composer score, MIDI file, and PDF file. Listings are categorized
by song title, composer, source (hymnal), meter, and musical incipit (first few notes). Once
you get the hang of the site navigation, you
can find the song you want fairly quickly. Very high quality PDF scores.
Updated 06/21/2005.
The Psalmistry: All Psalms
Christian Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
The Psalmistry is a very welcome addition to the Free Sheet Music
Guide. Here, you will find original lyrics, sheet music, guitar chords and midi and mp3 download files for all
150 Psalms in the Bible. Just pick your favorite psalm in the music index to view lyrics and download/listening
options. Sheet music available in PDF or Noteworthy format. Updated
06/21/2005.
Christian Praise
Tabs & Music
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature
Categories: Christian, Kids, Christmas
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's an excellent resource for church worship leaders, as well as those who lead worship for kids Vacation Bible
Schools. You'll find chords for over 300 praise and worship songs here (in *.txt format), along with pre-made overhead
sheets available for download in *pdf format as well as in power point format! The music available for kids worship
is an extra-added plus. Browse by song title
or author. Updated 06/21/2005.
ezFolk.com
Instrumentation for: Folk Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele,
Harmonica
Categories: Traditional, Christmas, Popular,
Folk.
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Richard Hefner’s excellent instructional site for banjo, folk guitar, harmonica
and ukulele includes tablature and tutorials
as well MP3 files for most of the songs. You'll find a number of Christmas selections, as well as popular folk
favorites such as Amazing Grace, Blue Mountain, Cripple Creek,
and Greensleeves. A
small, but fantastic tab collection for folk
and traditional instrumentalists. Updated 06/21/2005.
Radiohead for the
Pianoforte
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular, Alternative
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
It's always cool when something creative comes our way, and this site is definitely creative. Radiohead for the
Pianoforte features hand-written sheet music scores based on music of the band Radiohead. Currently, you'll find
piano scores from OK Computer,
Kid A, Amnesiac and others. All scores
are in *.jpg format. You can also download MIDI files of the scores. Updated 06/21/2005.
Guitar Tab Universe
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Pop/Rock
Catalog Size: Huge (60,000+)
GTU is an extremely large, searchable guitar tablature archive.
While it's nothing fancy, it's very easy to
navigate. GTU makes
it fast and easy to find what you want right now. No frills, not too cluttered, just lots and lots of tablature!
Updated 06/21/2005.
Guitar Noise
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Pop & Rock
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100) with links to hundreds.
We found Guitar Noise to be quite a treat, especially for those just learning to play the instrument. Guitar Noise
features lessons using tablature for both easy and intermediate guitarists. Songs used in the lessons include a
lot of popular favorites such as Horse With No Name, Margaritaville, House
of the Rising Sun,
Imagine and many others. The Tab section
includes articles on how to read, play and write tab and links to other
web sites that feature tab exclusively. So while
this isn't a guitar tab site per se (it's more
of a lessons site), you'll find plenty of tabs
here plus some great learning material. A fun place to learn to play guitar. Updated
6/21/2005.
Words and Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here you'll find one pianists own arrangements of a number of popular tunes.
A great collection. Updated 4/4/2005.
BandTabs.com
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Popular
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
BandTabs is a unique guitar tablature resource dedicated to providing tab for entire albums by many of today's
hottest rock acts. Artists represented include albums by Aerosmith, Linkin Park, U2, Green Day,
Offspring, Pink Floyd, and Radiohead. Tabs are browsable by artist name.
The site has been considerably simplified since
our previous update and is now simply an archive.
Updated 02/02/2005.
Easy Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, Boogie & Blues, Opera Classics, National Songs
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Easy Sheet Music is one of our favorite discoveries of late. First of all, every song is arranged for easy piano.
Secondly, the selection is quite 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. Updated 02/02/2005.
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 02/02/2005.
Free Guitar
Tips & Tabs by Bob Houlston
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Classical, Traditional, Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
It's not a large tab site, but it's a very good one, designed for beginners on the guitar. Bob's site has one of
the most detailed, easy to read explanations I've seen on how to read guitar tab, and the site, overall, is a perfect
place to just pick up your guitar and start getting familiar with reading tab notation. The selection of songs
is good too, with everything from Air on the G String to
Music Box Waltz and House of the Rising Sun.
Other featurings include guitar maintenance tips, playing styles, and many other extras. Updated
02/02/2005.
7 Hot
Instrumentation for: Piano & Guitar
Categories: Popular
Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
At this interesting Russian web site you'll find
sheet music, scanned as posted as *gif files, for a dozen Beatles songs including Love Me Do, A Hard Day's Night,
Help,
Let it Be and others. Updated 02/02/2005.
COWPIE
Song Corral
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Popular
Catalog Size: Huge
COWPIE is one of the Internet's most extensive collections of country music guitar tablature. The files available
for download are simple text files, with the song lyrics and chords. Nothing fancy, but if you love country music
and have the skill necessary to improvise from chord charts, you will find this searchable collection very useful.
Lots of very popular acts represented here, including Shania Twain, the Eagles, Sara Evans, Clint Black, Jackson
Browne and more. Updated 02/22/2005.
The Chopin Files
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This web site sorts Chopin's piano music into their
four categories; preludes, etudes, nocturnes, and waltzes. Each of these categories are then sorted by opus
number. Each composition page includes the sheet music (in PDF format), real audio file, and a detailed description
of the piece. A real treat for Chopin lovers. Updated 02/02/2005.
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.
A-Z Piano Sheet
Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
A-Z Piano includes a small collection of classical pieces, but what makes it stand out from the others is its collection
of Scott Joplin ragtime pieces and the 15 easy studies for small hands by Ettore Pozzolli. Files require the Sibelius
Scorch plug-in to view. Updated 02/02/2005.
Christian Guitar
Resources
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature, Bass Tablature
Categories: Christian
Catalog Size: Huge (10,000+)
Christian Guitar Resources features over 10,000 guitar and bass tabs inluding not only praise and worship but also
contemporary Christian hits. A fantastic collection, updated constantly with new music. You'll find many of your
favorites here. 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 02/02/2005
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.
TabRobot
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature
Categories: Popular, Rock, Alternative, Others
Catalog Size: Huge (Searches 850,000+ tabs)
TabRobot isn't a site so much as it is a meta-search engine which searches mulitple tab databases (such as GuitareTAB,
Olga,
Guitar Tab Universe and others) simultaneously. The end result is that rather than visiting several sites to find
the guitar tab you're looking for, you can search in one single place. You can also browse by band name. A very
extensive and useful resource. Updated 12/08/2004.
Three
Legged Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
& Guitar
Categories: Original, Christian,
Praise & Hymns
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Here you'll find PDF
files and chord/lyric sheets for both original
praise and worship as well as arrangements of
original and traditional hymns. Each score includes
an MP3 files for listening. A nice selection
of original works. Added 12/08/2004.
The
Classical Guitar Repetoire Guide
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Classical,
Flemenco, Spanish Guitar
Catalog Size: Link
site
For those of you in
search of Classical Guitar music, this directory will
make your search time considerably shorter.
The Classical Guitar Repetoire is essentially a
directory of links to classical guitar scores
that can be found on the Internet. Nicely organized,
browse links by grade, origin, composer, or
era. Added 12/08/2004.
Guitar Tab Universe
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Pop/Rock
Catalog Size: Huge (60,000+)
GTU is an extremely large, searchable guitar tablature archive
that ranks as perhaps one of the best, all inclusive tab sites available on the net. Easy to navigate, GTU makes
it fast and easy to find what you want right now. No frills, not too cluttered, just lots and lots of tablature!
Added 11/29/2004.
A
Traditional Music Library
Instrumentation for: Piano, Voice or Guitar (Lead Sheets for All)
Categories: Traditional,
Christmas
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
This huge sheet music library contains thousands of songs in a melody + chord format. The 'library' is divided
into 'songbooks' containing different styles of music making it easier to find the kind of music you want. For
example, there are bluegrass songbooks, songbooks containing Irish folk tunes, scottish, christmas, cowboy songs,
bawdy songs, 'well known traditional tunes', and many more. Once you select a songbook, you'll get a long list
of songs available in alphabetical order. Each song contains the melody, chords, and a MIDI file for the song so
you can listen to how it should go. The entire library is free here but also available for purchase on CD which
gives you much higher quality scores than those here.
Updated 11/23/2004
Praise Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tabs, Bass Tabs
Categories: Christian, Worship
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here's another great discovery for worship leaders. The Praise Archive is focused entirely on 'guitar chords and
tabs, mp3's, and lyrics of songs and music glorifying the name of the Lord Jesus Christ' and includes a number
of our favorites. Updated 11/23/2004.
Douglas
Campbell Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
(Lead Sheets) and Guitar (Lead
Sheets)
Categories: Original,
Christian
Catalog Size: Small
(10-25)
Worship leader DB Campbell
has provided MIDI, lyric, and
sheet music downloads for
nearly over dozen of his
original songs. The sheet
music, provided in PDF format,
includes the melody, lyrics,
and chords to each song.
Titles include
Forgive Us Oh Lord, Holy
Father, I Want to Know
Him
and other selections from DB's
CDs, which are also available
from CD Baby. Updated
11/29/2004.
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.
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