Digital music library

Draft

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

• Mutopia Project
  • Uses the LilyPond typsetting software, scores are also available as PDF or as MIDI
  • 1675 pieces for various genres available.

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

• Music library

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