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  • 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!
  • Classical Guitar Sheet Music Several pieces to download "Fully fingered arrangements of two excerpts from Rosamunde by Schubert + the hymn 'Nearer my God to Thee' as used in the film 'Titanic'" -- also has matching MIDI files.
  • RISM Online RISM stands for "RÉPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES SOURCES MUSICALES". Search several databases; among the returned information are notation excerts.
  • Jorge Guillen Classical Guitar Archives Very nice -- many GIF's with matching MIDI's. Also duets, trios, flute & guitar, etc. "Provides musical and technical information about the Classical Guitar including; Sheet Music, Midi Files, Freeware, Resources, Real Audio Media Clips, and Events."
  • Edition Panitz Lots of 19th century classical guitar music in postscript. Includes works for guitar and other instruments (flute, violin)
  • My Texas Music The Online Texas Music Resource (and when you say Texas Music, your're saying a whole lot!)
  • Arto Wikla's Music Page A nice collectin of Lute scores and information.
  • Flamenco Guitar Transcriptions Links to several sites of flamenco guitar transcriptions
  • Lute Music Lots of lute music -- GIF's and Postscript files.
  • Texter och Musik Help! I don't know what any of this means -- but it contains a lot of GIF standard notation manuscripts.
  • Traditional Irish Music Robert Blakely's site -- many tunes in MIDI and GIF
  • Prof's Traditional Irish Music Pages Take your pick -- many many many tunes listed. Prof is currently making all the music available online in midi, abc, and standard notation gif files.
  • Net ABC's A nice, large selection of ABC's. Organized nicely, then presented in text form so you can cut and paste easily.
  • Irish, Scottish, Shetland, and European Session Tunes Another ABC site -- but different. The tunes presented are those that have been found to work well in sessions (in jamming with other musicians).
  • The Session Nice presentation: "The exchange of tunes is what keeps traditional Irish music alive. This website is one way of passing on jigs, reels and other dance tunes. Every week, a new tune will be featured. Some of the tunes are well known, and some are more obscure. It's this mixture of the familiar and the new that makes for a good session."
  • Gary Ewer's "Easy Music Theory" A free set of online lessons that teach basic music theory. Very nice work!
  • Method Behind the Music Another music theory site... has both a fancy "Flash" version and a plain-text version.
  • Masters of Classical Music A nice collection of free classical music PDF's for piano.
  • Free Sheet Music Organization
  • All Sheet Music - Guitar Tabs, Piano Sheet Music Tabs Huge selection of guitar and piano sheet music tabs, lyrics and sheet music for musical instruments. Extensive discount collection of musical instruments and gear.
  • Celtic Guitar Glenn Weiser's site, offers free GIF's of guitar and harmonica arrangments from his series of Mel Bay books. (A new tune each month!)
  • Renaissance Polyphony in ABC Laura Conrad's site wins the "Best Title" award! Much renaissance-style music -- lots of choral pieces -- each tune in ABC, MIDI, and pdf.
  • Free Sheet Music Lots of free sheet music, plus sheet music for purchase WITH free one-page samples. Lots of popular tunes.
  • David Dobson's Music Pages Original piano scores in Noteworthy format, plus midi's, articles, etc.
  • Vatican Music Hall Images of original music manuscripts from the Vatican! "The manuscripts shown here present only a few samples of the extraordinary musical life sponsored by the Renaissancepapacy 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. "
  • Edward Hines Sheet Music "The art music of composer and former Fulbright scholar Edward J. Hines is written for a range of ages, performing abilities and covers a variety of styles." This group of offerings features a series of works based on the ancient modes of Turkish folk and clasical music. Very interesting stuff.
  • Mal and Jo's Nice collection of ABC's -- Irish, Scottish, Shetland, and European Session Tunes.
  • G8INA's Irish Music Page Good place to visit if you're into ABC's. Maintains .zip files of ABC tunes mirrored from many of the major ABC sites. Come here and download the zips in one swoop!
  • Wild Dismay Check out "Wild Dismay's" set list in ABC format!
  • Rob Greenway's Irish Flute Pages Welcome. This site presents some instructional materials focusing on the technical fundamentals of playing the Irish flute. The tutorials are aimed primarily at players who already have a bit of experience on the instrument, or who have gotten onto the Irish flute from playing whistle or Boehm-system flute and are starting to realize the enormity of the task now facing them.
  • Gary Shepherd's Bluegrass Index Lots of bluegrass tunes in tab (and lyrics) for Banjo(Check out the "Ballad of Jed Clampett!) Guitar Mando Dobro. Also banjo Lessons! Finally, there are "play along" MIDI backing-band arrangements -- let the MIDI accompany you while you play along!
  • Kenny Baker's Bluegrass Page Check out the "Licks 101" for some basic bluegrass guitar licks.
  • Vic's Music Site. New Music for Classical Orchestra: "Spring Tide". Suggested as a celebration of days enjoyed on our local beach. Also music for string quartet. All scores free to print.
  • Arbuckle's Celtic Guitar Many tunes in Celtic tunings -- standard notation and tab.
  • Viper Piper Bagpipe Tunes Many bagpipe tunes in standard notation gif files.
  • Original Jazz Charts Like it says, original jazz charts. Many are posted by member of the Usenet group rec.music.bluenote.
  • Amazing Music World A "payfer" service where you can download and print sheet music in many genres. They also have free samples.
  • COWPIE Song Corral Country Music! No sheet music, but plenty and plenty of chord and lyric sheets for loads of country stars and songs.
  • Northumbrian Traditional Music "This webpage will examine the unique traditional music of Northumbria, an area encompassing the modern counties of Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. The site includes sheet music, guitar tabulature, abc notation and midi files. There is also a page which looks at the issue of performance anxiety."
  • Intermediate Violin Music Piano and Violin pieces for Handel's (La Rejouissance) from Fireworks Music; also a Sailor's Hornpipe
  • The Ding Dong / Doraemon Music Page! Download the "Ding Dong / Doraemon" theme song for piano, violin. Caution -- 41 pages of music!
  • Virtual Sheet Music Classical Sheet Music Downloads.
  • Fabrizio Ferrari's Musicians Page Free sheet music, Live Musicians search engine and Free musicians resources
  • Hsiao Pianist Michael Hsiao has made a number of his original compositions available for immediate download. These compositions, transcribed for piano, are available in easy-to-use *.pdf format. If you casually browse the site, you'll find RealAudio and MP3 versions of the songs as well.
  • Danman's Music Library Lots of things -- Popular Songs Library, Popular Midi Library, Children's Songs Library, and a Classical Songs Library.
  • Musik von Rulrich Nehls Nice jazz and "big bandish" arrangments -- brass stuff. Site is much larger than his old one -- I see Ulrich now offers MIDI files of his arrangment as well as the notation files. I think this is a real nice touch that adds a lot of value to the site.
  • Drum Score Archive This French site (but has English text) has a nice offering of drum score PDF's.
  • The Real Thing This one was a tough call -- there is no standard notation sheet music -- just lyrics and chords to a whole slew of jazz standards. However, jazz chording is a whole different world to itself -- I never event knew about flatted fifths, elevenths, thirteenths, and all the other delightful jazz chords till I picked up a Joe Pass book a couple of years ago. It opened up a whole new world for me -- if nothing else, I now have a much (MUCH MUCH MUCH) better understanding of a walking bass line and how it works. Even though there's no sheet music, this site makes the list simply because of the chords. Well worth a look!
  • Vancouver Cello Club! Alright!! Cello music! Here's the home of the Vancouver Cello Club -- lotsa good stuff, including newsletters and a sheet music download archive.
  • Pierluigi Alessandrini Jazz saxonophonist -- Most of the site is in Italian, but there's a lot of jazz sheet music here. I'm not sure, but I think I even found a jazz sheet for a french horn here!
  • Seedsower Music Page A nice collection of Christian music appropriate for use in church services and other worship events (including Christmas).
  • Michael Bluejay's Ben Folds Five Page A fan page for the group, "Ben Folds Five". Michael lists several transciptions in standard notation for BF5 tunes.
  • New Millennium Classical Guitar Magazine A number of free transcripts from this magazine.
  • Spencer Doidge's Classical Guitar ... and Fingerpicking Guitar page! To tell you the truth, I wasn't expecting to find the quantity and quality of pieces here that I did. Well worth a look if you're looking for classical or flatpicking guitar music.
  • Silent Night - Let's get it right! Did you know this: "Ever since Austrian organ-builder Karl Mauracher, provided some traveling folk singers with an arrangement of "Silent Night," the world has been singing the wrong melody." !!!! Most interesting -- visit this site to find out more -- and to view the sheet music!
  • Silent Night Museum More Silent Night!
  • Daniel Laberge Music "Free music accompaniments here on the Internet for woodwind, brass and stringed instruments. These are taken from our collection of accompaniments on CD. Each piece comes with the sheet music for the solo instrument including recorder, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, violin, viola, cello and double-bass. Background tracks, karaoke style."
  • An Online Christmas Songbook Great resource -- notation and lyrics for 101 great Christmas Carols!
  • Choral and Handbell Music Music from Ralph R. Prime, who was the Director of Choral Organizations and Handbell Choirs for 21 years at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. No downloads -- BUT "peruse the list of compositions below, and if you find any of interest to you, please write me an e-mail message (and) I will be happy to snail mail a complimentary copy of the piece (or pieces) to you, as long as my supply lasts."
  • Palmetto Drumline It's the "homepage of the Miami Palmetto Senior High School Percussion Section!" About half a dozen of so sheet music scores for percussion sections.
  • Game Music Network Here's another whole genre of music I bet you've rarely thought of -- "Computer Game Music"! Lotsa links and messages -- including sheet music downloads of several games.
  • Videogame Music Archive This is a MIDI site -- but it's a unique one! You'll find thousands of video game MIDI's here -- from the early NES and Atari to the latest Playstation games! Even many of your favorite arcade games (I'm listening to the arcade version of "Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" right now!)
  • Online Song Book The Paul and Rita Boloche Online Song Book. Christian Music -- many standards, PDF's.
  • Country Music Dance Network I normally don't do these, but I seem to be breaking a lot of rules lately. Anyway, this is one of the best Country Dance sites I've found -- with instructions for many country steps (Including the "most requested step" -- the Texas Two-Step, of course -- which is about the only one I can do).
  • Violin String ID Chart Not sheet music, but could be handy for violinists. It's a string identification chart; it lists string brands, wrappings, colors, etc -- things that can help you identify an unknown set of strings on a violin.
  • freemusic Free instructional sheet music from KLAVAR MUSIC SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL
  • Classical Guitar Aficcionado's Page Beginning to offer GIF classical guitar sheet music.
  • Vic Voss: String Quartet Music Vic offers a string quartet he's written -- he says "You are cordially invited to read this music, to play it and to download and print it. I would be very pleased if you would draw other musicians' attention to it. "


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