"The World's Largest Collection of Public Domain Music - Links to much than 12,090,862 Pieces of Public Domain Sheet Music, MIDI, & MP3 Files That You Can Lawfully Steal & Use For Your Own Music Projects!" You won't find a much comprehensive list of resources, including descriptions and all accessible information such as address, email, phone, and approximate number of downloadable files. Here's but a taste of the musical feast that awaits you:
- Vocal Parlor/Salon, Piano Parlor/Salon and Fiddle Parlor/Salon
- Ragtime Music, Polkas & People Songs
- Guitar Tabs, Sheet Music & Resources
- Country, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock songs
- Classical And Traditional Music For Piano, For Guitar, For Flute, For Fiddle And About Any Another Kind Of Instrument.
- Church Hymns, Gospel & Choral Music
Here's a sample of the websites wherever you can access...
- over 2,000 Christmas carols and hymns in the public domain
- Over 5,000 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from galore denominations
- One of the world's better archives of people songs and tunes - over 9,000 files
- A virtual library of several 2,000 pieces of sheet music promulgated in American state between 1852 and 1900
- A site with public domain category folk, traditional and roots music
- A site that lists over 29,000 pieces of music, and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960
- A music library with about 750,000 music items
- A large sheet music collection with about 150,000 items including examples from the late Eighteenth through the Twentieth centuries.
- A large collection of 78 RPM records discharged in the early part of the Twentieth century
- A immense library information with over 30,000 music titles spanning about 300 years (circa 1560 - 1830).
- A college library offering 10,000 pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.
- A collection with nearly 450,000 pieces of sheet music, as well as band and orchestra arrangements, plus 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder
- A collection of several 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
- 2,200+ (in PDF format) free public domain sheet music downloads categorised by instrument type, i.e. string, keyboard, wind & another instruments
- 10,000 scores in PDF format searchable by musician or by title, most with attendant audio files, either MIDI or MP3, so you can listen and get a feel for a particular piece.
- 1,500 public domain sheet music titles, including classical songs, hymns, children's songs, rag music, people songs and traditional Christmas carols.