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Sheet Music
International Music Score Music Library Project
www.IMSLP.org
This online library provides free scores of music that are in the public domain. Scores are searchable by composer, instrumentation or genre, and by melody (yes, there is a small keyboard where you input a melody). Most scores are scanned PDF files and vary in quality. Some works include an audio file (actual instruments or midi) for listening.
Choral Public Domain Library
www.CPDL.org
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. The library hosts a large collection of music scores and other supporting files (such as midi or other sound files) which can be freely downloaded and used. Most of the scores on CPDL are modern editions based on older works whose copyright has lapsed (or which are otherwise in the public domain), but some scores are newly composed and offered for download by the composer.
The website moved to a wiki-based platform in 2005, which enables people to edit material on a website freely.
Beethoven Haus-Bonn
www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
This is treasure trove of musical works and other manuscripts of Ludwig Beethoven. You can search works by title, first line of text, opus numbers, type of music (orchestral, choral, etc.), and year published.
Brahms Digital Collection
http://www.brahms-institut.de/web/bihl_digital/erstdrucke_start.html
Find any work of Johannes Brahms by opus number at this archive (in German). The German Requiem (Opus 45) offers seven scores for viewing, including the original in Brahms’ own hand with his musical markings. Fascinating, but perhaps not the one you want to carry on stage.
Mozart Digital Edition
http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma
The website, operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute, makes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public. The scores can be used for personal study and for educational and classroom use, but downloading or reuse of the contents is prohibited.
Text /Translation
The LiederNet Archive
http://www.lieder.net/
The archive is a collection of texts used in 102,452 Lieder and other classical art songs, as well as many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The archive indexes 64,356 texts with 12,892 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others. The website has frequent updates.
The list can be searched by composer, poet, first line, title, and language.
IPA Source
www.IPASource.com
With over 5,598 titles, this is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. You can find more than 969 aria texts fully translated with the complete International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions. Texts in Latin, Italian, German, and French to the works of all the great song and opera composers as found in the most common anthologies are also available.
Individuals may buy single titles for as little as $2.50 or an individual subscription (starting at $29.95 for six months) for unlimited access. A studio subscription for $99 a year allows voice instructors to distribute downloaded files to students within their studios.
Naxos Music Library
http://naxosmusiclibrary.com
This online archive has some 63,730 albums and 912,100 tracks of music. New releases are added every month and can be accessed separately. On average, 500 new albums are added to the library every month. You can search by name of composer and/or work or alphabetically by label, by composer, and genre and category combined. Advanced Search allows you to search by genre, composer, country, period, instrument, artist, label, and year of composition, or a combination of these criteria.
Subscriptions to the library range from $20 to $30 a month for individuals depending on the bandwidth you choose.
