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This article has been tagged since April 2007. The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is a sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal music in the public domain. Sheet music is written representation of music. ...
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// Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ...
The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
Description
Music is available for free download in a variety of formats, including score images in PDF and TIFF format, sound files in MIDI and MP3 formats, and in the notation formats supported by various notation programs, including Finale, Finale Allegro, Finale PrintMusic, and Finale Notepad by MakeMusic, Sibelius, by Sibelius, Noteworthy composer, Encore, and the open source GNU Lilypond. Most scores on CPDL are distributed under an open-source license. CPDL archives over 10,000 scores contributed by over 300 editors and composers. It includes large numbers of scores by many composers, especially from the Renaissance period, including nearly complete vocal works by William Byrd and Tomás Luis de Victoria in excellent editions. Uploading and downloading are related terms used to describe the transfer of electronic data between two computers or similar systems. ...
A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ...
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for desktop publishing use. ...
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MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other equipment to communicate, control and synchronize with each other in real time. ...
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular audio encoding format. ...
Finale is the flagship program of a series of scorewriters created by MakeMusic for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Several less expensive versions of Finale, with subsets of the main programs features, are made. ...
Sibelius Software Ltd is a British music software company, with subsidiaries in California and Australia. ...
Noteworthy Composer (NWC) is a scorewriter application made by NoteWorthy Software. ...
GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music for all common operating systems; it is written in C++ and assembled by a Scheme library (GNU Guile) which also allows user customization and extension[1]. It uses a simple text notation for music, which is then compiled into...
// Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. ...
William Byrd William Byrd (c. ...
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – August 20, 1611) was a gifted Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. ...
CPDL is suggested as a resource by departmental or faculty websites at Kent State University, Northern Illinois University, the University of Oregon, the University of Western Ontario, the Internet Public Library of the University of Michigan, the University at Albany, The State University of New York, by the UCLA Music Library and by inclusion by faculty members in syllabi for courses at Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.[citation needed] It is recommended by the Iowa and Massachusetts chapters of the American Choral Directors Association, and is included in the resource database of Intute, an association of Institutions in the UK.[citation needed] Kent State University (KSU) is an institution of higher learning located in Kent, Ohio, which is 1 hour south-east from Cleveland. ...
Northern Illinois University, located in DeKalb, Illinois, is the second largest university located in the state of Illinois. ...
The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ...
The University of Western Ontario (known as Western, as well as UWO or Western Ontario) is a research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. ...
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ...
University at Albany, SUNY, is a public university located in the capital of New York state, and is the senior campus of the SUNY system. ...
The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ...
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (also known as UW-Oshkosh or UWO )is a public university located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. ...
The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization with the stated purpose of promoting excellence in the field of choral music. ...
In 2005 CPDL was ported to wiki format, and is now accessible at ChoralWiki, making it easier for users to obtain more features beyond the mere archiving and making scores accessible for download from CPDL, including: In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ...
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- original texts, their sources and translations are available,
- cross indexing of choral music using criteria including musical genre, period, and number and voicing of choral parts,
- composer information,
- description and performance considerations can be included for works, and
- contents of collections of choral music.
Other public domain music projects The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. ...
The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
The Mutopia project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of public domain sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenbergs library of public domain books. ...
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. ...
See also This is a list of online music databases: AccuRadio All Brazilian Music All Music Guide BNR Metal Burnt Wolf CADENSA - The catalogue of the British Library Sound Archive CDDB Choral Public Domain Library Color Of My Sound Coris Jpop Page Digitaldreamdoor Disco Record Vault Discogs Diskografi. ...
Shortcut: WP:PD There are many resources available on the net that are in the public domain, and therefore freely usable without restrictions for Wikipedia content. ...
External links
References - MStation - Internet Music Publishing, 2002.
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