Find Free Sheet Music Really nice free sheet music arrangement. Great search facility, plus links are categorized by musical style and instrument. Violin, piano, guitar, classical, celtic, brass, woodwinds -- the list goes on and on!
Free Piano Music Mainly for keyboard players -- piano, organ, accordion, etc. Lots of piano information, sheet music, etc. Find classical, contemporary, jazz, lessons, etc.
Free Sheet Music Source Free public domain sheet music for piano, organ, choral, brass, spiritual/worship, lesson books for both beginners and advanced players.
The Bassoon-Family Fingering Companion: An Annotated Index of Fingerings for Instruments in the Bassoon Family Contained in English Wind Periodicals and Other Select Publications with Additional Material
Wolfmusic Publications Mainly classical piano -- their "mission is the publication of classical piano music, by significant composers, that is currently unavailable in modern notation." This is mainly a commercial source, but they do offer some samples of their sheet music, along with some MIDI samples.
The Classical Source A little bit of everything -- no sheet music (except for links), but many interesting articles and events.
Ragtime A handful of Ragtime favorites in GIF format! Also images of covers.
Carl Flesch Tribute Site No sheet music, but very nice for any violin player. Professional and personal information about Carl Flesch, including a list of publications and a discography.
JACKS, PIPES & HAMMERS Music of the 17th & 18th Centuries in Facsimile (a goodly selection of English music) for Various Instruments ``and a fine service for all your early music publications. Free samples.
Sestino Macaro's Italian composer Macaro offers MIDI's and Acrobat scores of his choral, orchestral, instrumental, electroacoustic, and children's music.
Musique Ancienne French site covering ancient music -- moyen age, renaissance, pre-baroque, etc. The site is in French, but non-French-speakers should be able to figure it out. (Hint -- go to "partitions") Offers GIF's, as well as Mozart and Noteworthy files.
Jazz Fiddle Wizard Martin Norgaard's site introducting his "Jazz Fiddle Wizard" book to be published by Mel Bay Books. Offers some audio clips, plus some sample sheet music and lessons from his lesson book.
Music of Paul Copeland Many styles of original music by this Australian composer: Computer, piano, organ, flute, Christian, etc.
Richard Yates' Classical Guitar Transcriptions Richard Yates's site (He has a Classical Guitar book published by Mel Bay). PDF's to MANY wonderful classical pieces -- also, MIDI's for a bunch of them. Richard also asks for reader feedback -- for instance, he's transcribed Pachelbel's Canon for a guitar duet because of viewer request. This page is a treasure!
The American Nyckelharpa Association Nice site with a sense of humor -- Nyckelharpa, also known as a "what is that thing?"! Lots of nice stuff about this Swedish instrument, including a great resources page (build or buy your own) with GIF sheet music!
Songwriter Site This one isn't a sheet music site as such, but I think it's a great fit. The site offers gazillions of articles, reports, resources, etc for songwriters -- and I think this is a topic folks on this site might find interesting. Start here and you'll find several days worth of surfing!
Jaymar Instrumental Catalog Many scores for sale -- BUT, you can view much of the score (and quite often the entire score)! Pieces for woodwinds, brass, sax, strings, harp, and piano.
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive I am the very model of a modern Major General! Really cool! "The Archive, which was established in September 1993, includes a variety of G&S related items, including clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures of the original G&S stars, song scores, midi and mpeg audio files (which allow you to actually listen to the music), and newsletter articles." Sing along with the midi files!
Musica: The International Database of Choral Music An international database of choral music -- mostly a pay service, but they do have a monthly "most favorite selection" where they list an excert of the sheet music. Furthermore, they have an archive of the past "piece of the month"s -- so there are a number of sheet music excerts.
MidiNotate Print standard notation from MIDI files. "MidiNotate (for Windows 95, 98, and NT) converts MIDI files to scores that you can then print or view on the screen during playback. If you can get a MIDI file for the song or piece for which you need a score, then all you need to do is open the MIDI file. MidiNotate will automatically convert it into a score."
Victor Morosco Jazz Saxophone Offers some lessons with standard notation and tips, as well as sample sheet from many of Morosco's compositions (which are also available for purchase).
Traditional Irish Music on the Hammered Dulcimer This site provides instructional material on techniques for playing the hammered dulcimer in the Irish traditional style as well as relevant information on festivals, workshops, and arrangements of Irish traditional music for the dulcimer.
Swedish Fiddle Site Roam the vicinity of the rivers of Ljungan and Ljusnan in the "midnorth" part of Sweden and find a variety of traditional fiddle / violin tunes. To many of the tunes, you will find an accompanying second part suggested, and to some tunes are also added a midi version. You will also find tunes from some other parts of Scandinavia, though the emphasis is on the regions of Jämtland, Härjedalen and Medelpad, with their rich and varying - but perhaps not so well-known - folk music traditions.
Winged Harper Home of The Harp Ring. No music yet, but there is an article on building a case for your harp.
Solo and Ensemble Music Not all free, but many free sample gif pages. Many instruments -- brass, woodwinds, strings, ensembles, quartets, vocals, etc.
Doc's Online Trumpet Sheet Music Whoa! Like, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Monk, Duke Ellington, and more!?!?!? Some really nice work -- pay this fellow a visit!
Brass Resources A master "link" list -- jillions of things for brass players.
Where's the Beat? Interesting site presenting art of polyrhythms. GIF's and MIDI's (and fee books). "Bali, where the rhythms of gamelan music fill the night air. India, birthplace of tala, a cyclical approach to rhythm. In the world fusion rhythms created by combining ideas from many traditions. In the music of the Ancient Future. In a world rhythm training manual by Matthew Montfort called Ancient Traditions -- Future Possibilities. "
Classic Saxophone Online What -- Sax on the Internet! Many nice PDF's, academic discussions, and musical notation samples of : "Music Study - Classical Saxophone Works, Music Study - Jazz, and Music Study - General"
Recorder Teacher and Easy Songwriter A shareware package to help you learn Recorder. Looks pretty nice -- has many tunes, shows notation and fingering, can play the tune, etc. Many tunes available to download, plus you can download a free trial version.
The Outside Shore Most cool -- MANY original jazz tunes, along with the sheet music gif's and accompanying midi files. Also offers an EXTENSIVE primer on jazz improvising!
Clarinet Players Midi Source ... and to a minor extent a flute, oboe, bassoon, and French horn players midi source. Nice MIDI accompaniments, plus many PDF sheet music pieces.
The Roland White Band Bluegrass mandolin! Offers to email you 5 bluegrass mandolin tabs you can read with TabWrite (which you can download here).
Banjo Tabs and Bluegrass Information From here, you can join a banjo tab list and/or a discussion list. Click the buttons to the Main menu, and you'll find several selections of banjo tabs -- including licks, runs, and other goodies.
Eric Dolphy Page Jazz Transcriptions! A couple of transcriptions from Eric Dolphy solo's (bass clarinet and alto)
The Music Scores Library Many (but not all) free classical pieces for several different instruments (piano, basoon, violin, cello, flute, etc)
Music Hall -- From Gregorian Chant to Opera's Origins GIF Image's of REAL manuscripts! "The manuscripts shown here present only a few samples of the extraordinary musical life sponsored by the Renaissance papacy and the remarkable musical libraries of the papal singers. Together with the image of the papal choir in the Sistine Chapel on display in this section [Ris. Strag. 7], they give a vivid idea of the ways public performance and high art could enhance the majesty of the papacy."
Spindrift Music Music by Pamela J. Marshall ... in pdf format! ``Keyboards, brass, strings, orchestra, etc.
The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection PDF's. "This Web presentation was conceived both as a multimedia thematic catalog of the UNT Music Library's collection of first and second editions of theatrical works by the French Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, and as a nucleus for collecting information useful to anyone studying those works."
19th Century California Sheet Music A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs.
Violinland Mailing List Something a little different. This is a "mailing list" you can join. Once joined, you'll begin to receive emails from other members on various violin related subjects. Sometimes a good source of information -- plus it's a good place to ask questions!
PDS: Arrangements PDS Music features the oustanding 6 and 9-piece band arrangements written by jazz trombonist Roland "Roy" Stefani (1925-1991), one of the "best-kept" secrets on the national music scene for years. Several GIF samples for trumpet, trombone, keyboards, and tenor sax.
Brent Hughes Music Instruction Page This page contains pointers to educational software of interest to music teachers and students. The main focus is freely available software on the net that will help students master the basics of music--note reading, music theory, ear training, and music history.
African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920 This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave.
JazzKids Music Program - Jazz music for all ages! "JazzKids creates original jazz material for young students. These songs are fun, catchy, and easy to play. They help increase jazz awareness, improve aural recognition skills, and through our mission this method creates a well-rounded musician." Check it out -- a program for students and teachers, with some free downloads.
Mandolin Chords Really nice for mandolin players -- many files of mandolin chords
Mandolin Cafe Tremendous mandolin site. Lots of lessons, theory, techniques, and tabs. Also offers a "tune of the month" in standard notation. Loaded with mandolin information.
Music Station A music school in West London (Uxbridge); specializes in keyboard music (Organ and Piano). A number of selections done with a shareware music editor called 'Noteworthy Composer' (which you can download from here).
Australian Bush Music and Dance I bet you don't know what "WongaWilli" style sounds like! Some neat Bush Tunes. "The aim of the Wongawilli Band & Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. is to preserve, promote and perform Australia's tradition and heritage of music, song, dance, poetry and yarnspinning."
The Folk Rag "An Independent monthly Folk newsletter which covers the Brisbane Metropolitan Area" Nice oneline magazine that includes a GIF of the "Tune of the Month"!
Roger Clarke's Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda. That's it ... but it is EVERYTHING there is to know about Waltzing Matilda. A lot of fun!
The Bodhran Page Everything Bodhran -- calendar, pictures, recordings, making, history, buying, caring, playing, techniques, etc, etc.
An Appreciation of the Donegal Fiddle Lots of information about the fiddle music of Co. Donegal, Ireland. Among the goodies is an On-Line Fiddle Tutor with ABC's of increasing difficulty/complexity.
Stacy Phillips Dobro & Fiddle Page "I play Dobro and violin and have written many books on various aspects of these instruments. If you surf through my page you'll find out something about them, my instructional videos, upcoming performances and even lesson samples on each instrument"
Fiddle - Lesson Notes and Songs Really nice for beginners, intermediates, students, etc. A number of gif's of different styles of tunes, plus scales and exercises. Well done!
Amhrán Gaelach "Welcome to Amhrán Gaelach, the first ever collection of Irish Language song texts on the Internet." Lyrics, plus ABC's of some of the tunes. The webmaster cautions that the ABC should be used as a "guide", since it's difficult to notate the "soul" in an Irish tune!
Rod's Concert Hall Rod Anderson's original compositions, MIDI's, WAV's, and scores.
John Sherman's Celtic Guitar Page "Celtic guitar, simply put, is that body of music arranged for guitar that includes the traditional musical repertoire of the Celtic regions of Europe (primarily Ireland and Scotland, but also including Wales, Brittany, the Isle of Man and Galicia) or that can claim to be influenced by it." Describes modal tuning, offers jpg's of sample tunes (hey, it's treble clef -- try it with your fiddle!)
Free Sheet Music Offers graphics of standard notation of tunes (hymns when I checked) by their original composers.
Codetta in C - Hosaphone You can "Download your very own copy of the sheet music which includes a Hosaphone(tm) part and piano accompaniment".
The Giorgio Pacchioni's Home Page " "This web page is dedicated to the early counterpoint and particularly to the FUGUE, my effort is orientated to rediscover the early techniques that have caused centuries of musical masterpieces". MANY pieces you can download!
Michael Cooke's Classical page Classical music is the high art style of music. It is my favorite to listen to and compose. " Cooke's site is a well built resource for classical music. He also offers a free copy of his own composition for piano, "A Love Letter: To a Lady From Chopin & Mozart". Plus he's a fellow Texan, so that's a big plus in my book!
Northumbrian Traditional Music Fiddle, Guitar, and Song! Sheet music, tabs, and ABC's of "the unique traditional music of Northumbria, an area encompassing the modern counties of Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland."
Quick and Dirty Doumbek Doumbeck "notation"! Includes a reading guide, plus notation for 13 basic doumbeck rhythms (Beladi, Ayoub, Masmoodi, Chiftatelli, Kashlimah, Guwazi, Falahi, Soufi, Serto, and Zar)
Kalani Music Much drumming! Learn new rhythms (with notation), reprints of articles discussing polyrhythms, djembe drumming (including notation), and much more!
Beginning Adult Violin Students A Yahoo mailing list newsgroup intended for ... well, beginning adult violin students! This is a nice newsgroup -- just the right amount of traffic, plus lots of questions and answers of interest to violin students of the adult persuasion. Some great tips on strings, vibrato, practicing, etc, etc. Also, they load some nice ABC tunes in their ONELIST shared files directory. You have to join the list to access the files, but the messages make joining really worthwhile.
Wedding Sheet Music Really nice resource. Find your theme song. Free tips and sheet music samples! Payfer site, but uses a digital viewer to show you free peeks at a slew of wedding sheet music.
Eric Foxley's Searchable Music Database "We maintain a database of over 1000 traditional British related folk dance tunes. All are stored using the Nottingham ASCII format. They arose from an original core forming the repertoire of Freds Folks Ceilidh Band. The music is now available as PDF files. "
Old Time Fiddle Tunes Graphics of several tunes written or transcribed by John Hartford. Great magazine, too.
The Virtual Tunebook A nice collection of tunes. All stored as Gif's. Also has some Midi clips -- helps if you're still learning to read musical notation.
Kitchen Musician "Historical Celtic, English and American Tunes``Hammered Dulcimer Friendly and also playable on fiddle, mandolin, tinwhistle, recorder, flute, etc. ``Downloadable as sheet music GIF files or as MIDI files"
ABC2WIN Use this shareware package to convert ABC notation to standard musical notation. As an extra nice touch, it can also optionally play the tune for you!
John Chambers' ABC music collection If you are a musician who is interested in a simple, portable, plain-text music notation with software that will run just about anywhere, you might be at one of the right sites.
the abc musical notation language The ABC guy. Links to gazzillions of abc collections. This stuff will keep you busy for years. Also lots of general "abc" information.
Richard's Web Tunesearch Wow! What a complete and capable tune searching tool! If you're looking for folk or ethnic tunes, this is the place!
Chris Ricker's Fiddle Page Lots of jpeg music, plus 100's of abc tunes. Chris has collected them into volumes of about 100 tunes each. Also Canadian tunes.
Ishmael's Music Page. What it says. Check out his Sheet Music link and the Morris Tunes.
Vannessa-Mae Sheet Music In Acrobat format. Includes Mason Williams classic "Classical Gas" transcribed for violin!
Musicease Home of "SongBox", a shareware program that loads and prints "collections" of music. Offers several "collections" or "libraries" for download, including collections of traditional fiddle/dance tunes, Christmas songs, and ragtime.
The Fiddle Web Home of The Fiddle Web. Contains an enormous browsable/searchable database of fiddlers, camps, contests, and many other resources. Don't know what to search for? No problem, it's browsable in state order!
An ABC Library of Morris Tunes More Morris style tunes; a library in ABC format. Sorted by English village (What a clever idea!)
My Sheet Music Lots of stuff you can buy, but they also have some free downloadable sheet music. If you do see things you might want to buy, they offer free sample pages.
Mr Fiddle Good for beginners, offers MIDI files and "play-along" sheet music. Not all songs have sheet music -- however, you can save the MIDI files and print them out in sheet music notation with a number of different packages.
Sheet Music Online Has free downloads for different styles (jazz, fiddle, Christmas, classical, etc)
