Digital music library
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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)
- WIMA used MusiXteX for typesetting
Recording catalogues
- MusicBrainz! is an open music encyclopedia that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata.
Music databases
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