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* [http://icking-music-archive.org/ WIMA - The Werner Icking Music Archive] (will be merged with IMSLP - decision taken in sept. 2011) | * [http://icking-music-archive.org/ WIMA - The Werner Icking Music Archive] (will be merged with IMSLP - decision taken in sept. 2011) | ||
** The other large archive | |||
** WIMA used MusiXteX for typesetting | ** WIMA used MusiXteX for typesetting | ||
* [http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Mutopia Project] | |||
** Uses the [http://lilypond.org/ LilyPond] typsetting software, scores are also available as PDF or as [[MIDI]] | |||
** 1675 pieces for various genres available. | |||
=== Recording catalogues === | === Recording catalogues === | ||
* [http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz!] is an open music encyclopedia that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata. | * [http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz!] is an open music encyclopedia that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata. | ||
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* http://www.musipedia.org/ Musipedia] is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. {{quotation|You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code.}} | |||
== Links and Bibliography == | == Links and Bibliography == | ||
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[[Category: Music]] | [[Category: Music]] | ||
[[Category:Property rights and copyright]] | |||
Revision as of 14:17, 9 September 2011
Introduction
List of repositories
MIDI
- musescore.com (related to the MuseScore.org free music editing software).
- freemidi.com Software for midi and karaoke and index of midi file sites
Printable Sheet music
(scores, in PDF or other printable format)
- IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project (also known as Petrucci Music Library)
- Best place for printable scores (PDF).
- Some entries also include performances, e.g. as Midi files
- 43,332 works · 110,441 scores · 3,199 recordings · 6,288 composers · 102 performers
- Wikipedia entry
- WIMA - The Werner Icking Music Archive (will be merged with IMSLP - decision taken in sept. 2011)
- The other large archive
- WIMA used MusiXteX for typesetting
Recording catalogues
- MusicBrainz! is an open music encyclopedia that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata.
- http://www.musipedia.org/ Musipedia] is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. “You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code.”
Links and Bibliography
Institutions
- Distributed digital music archives and libraries Lab Univ. McGill.
- OMRAS2 project Online Music Recognition And Searching, or alternatively Ontology-driven Music Retrieval & Annotation Sharing service. Omras2 is a framework for annotating and searching collections of both recorded music and digital score representations such as MIDI. The project is funded by the EPSRC.
Publications
- Bainbridge, D., Dewsnip, M. & Witten, I. H. (2005). Searching digital music libraries. Information Processing & Management, 41(1), 41-56. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/1299