Free Choral Music - the Choral Public Domain Library

If you're a conductor or choral singer, then news of free choral music is a very good thing indeed!

Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is a choral wiki which is updated daily; it permits unrestricted downloads and no-edit viewing.

Our Performance Library Adminstrator says it's well worth a look!

When it's core repertoire, but we've lent all our hard copies ...

... Take a look at our digital music collections.  Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can download sheet music from Alexander Street Press, or from LibrarySource.com.  They're listed on the Whittaker Library electronic resources page, and very usefully augment the popular free resources that anyone can access. 

Partifi.org
Catherine also found an intriguing website called Partifi, the other day.  It can create parts from an IMSLP (Petrucci Music Library) full score.  It's fair to say that it's a bit fiddly to use, but if you're desperate to create parts for a piece of music, and they're not already online, then you might find it handy.

It's listed on our electronic resources page, to help you find it when you need it.

Do You Know the Score? We do, when it comes to Free Sheetmusic!

Free scores online

• You may already know about the Petrucci Music Library, otherwise known as IMSLP.  Watch out for copyright issues (different countries have different laws) but apart from that, it's a brilliant resource. http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page 
• The Internet Archive is another useful place.  Not very visually attractive, but it's the content that counts.  Very handy for historic material.   https://archive.org/

And now, free to our registered staff and students ...

What we really want our performers to know about, are the new offerings from Alexander Street Press:- 

We subscribe to Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library Collections 1 and 2.  That means our staff and students can download anything they find there.  There's classical music for everyone, whatever they sing or play.  Do take a look.  (If you're off-campus, you'll need to login.)

• Classical Scores Library Advanced Search (one search searches all)
• Classical Scores Library Homepage
•  Classical Scores Library 2 Homepage

.Last but not least, we also subscribe to LibraryMusicSource.com - not an Alexandra Street Press resource - which you can access on Conservatoire premises. Like the Petrucci Music Library, it's better for older music, but it's still a useful place to look for core repertoire.

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - here to help our performing arts community with their information needs! 

How to Get Free Sheet Music

We subscribe to Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library Collections 1 and 2.  That means our staff and students can download anything they find there.  There's classical music for everyone, whatever they sing or play.  Do take a look.  (If you're accessing these links from off-campus, you'll need to login.)

• Classical Scores Library Advanced Search (one search searches all)

• Classical Scores Library Homepage
•  Classical Scores Library 2 Homepage

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We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - here to help our performing arts community with their information needs! 

Awesome! Free Lieder Scores for RCS Staff and Students!

We subscribe to Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library Collections 1 and 2.  That means you can download anything you find there.

We did an Advanced Search for Lieder.  Just that one word - and look what we found!

But it's not just vocal music - there's classical music for everyone, whatever they sing or play.  Do take a look.  (If you're accessing these links from off-campus, you'll need to login.)

• Classical Scores Library Advanced Search (one search searches all)

• Classical Scores Library Homepage
•  Classical Scores Library 2 Homepage

Finding Digital Sheet ("sheet") Music

NEWS!  Staff and students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland can freely download music from Library Music Source using any wi-fi enabled device on Conservatoire Premises.  There's so much there, you'll have to take a look to see for yourself!

Here's the link:- 

• Library Music Source
• http://www.librarymusicsource.com/index.php

NB This great resource is only accessible by subscription.  The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland subscription can only be accessed on Conservatoire premises.  The subscription does not allow Conservatoire users to access it elsewhere.

This seems a good opportunity to mention other resources available on the internet.  Some of these are free, others have to be paid for:-

• IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library - Free Public Domain Sheet Music; an online database with a lot of historic collections, free to download.
• Sheet Music Direct: Download and Print Sheet Music for Piano, Choir, Guitar Tabs and More   
• OnlineSheetMusic.com    
• CD Sheet Music Online   
• Sheet Music Plus - For Piano, Guitar And Choral Music
• National Library of Scotland - Digital Gallery (hundreds of early Scottish music scores, free to access and download.)
• The Internet Archive at Archive.org  offers old music and old recordings, besides the more expected old books  - well worth a look!