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Saved by 98 people (-50 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-05-21
- Doyousina on 2009-11-15 - Tags New Additions
- Docgrey on 2009-11-14 - Tags music , sheetmusic , free , scores , library , for:@twitter
- Andrew_lamb on 2009-10-22 - Tags music , sheetmusic , scores , archive , classical , library , audio
- Skipzusa on 2009-10-20 - Tags music , sheetmusic , scores , archive , classical , library , mutopia , audio
- Latigo on 2009-10-17 - Tags From , Safari , Entertainment , Music , & , iTunes
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The Mutopia Project
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All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute. There are now 468 pieces of music available!
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The Mutopia Project
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Welcome to the Mutopia Project ... a place where music is free for everyone! Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music.
Broadly speaking, copyright on a creative work expires 70 years after the creator's death. This means that the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and many other composers are in the public domain - in principle, they may be copied and performed without restriction.
However, you may not normally copy or perform a sheet music edition which you can buy, because an editor also has a copyright on the edition, and an arranger may have, too. The copyright on the edition only expires when all these people have been dead for 70 years. Additional restrictions in the USA mean that only works published there prior to 1923 are in the public domain. Only sufficiently old editions fulfil these criteria, and are therefore in the public domain.
But for a lot of classical music, editions do exist which are old enough, especially in libraries and private collections. The quality of the editorial work is generally as high as in recent editions, if not higher. Several composers were also notable as editors. (For example, Brahms's editions of Mozart works are now in the public domain)
The idea behind the Mutopia Project is that volunteers typeset these editions on a computer, using the GNU Lilypond typesetting software, and make them freely available.
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The Mutopia Project: Free sheet music for everyone
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on 2006-08-16 by tiojoca
on 2006-08-20 by nicolaus
on 2006-09-15 by cryztalvisions