International Music Score Library Project
International Music Score Library Project | |
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The IMSLP homepage as of May 2007 |
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URL | http://www.imslp.org/ |
Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Music score library |
Registration | Optional (required for contributing) |
Available language(s) | Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
Owner | IMSLP community |
Created by | Feldmahler |
Launched | February 16, 2006 |
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. Since its launch on February 16, 2006, more than 14000 scores, for 8000 works, by over 900 composers (as of October 2007) have been uploaded, making it one of the largest public domain music score collections on the web.[1] The project uses the popular MediaWiki software.
The library consists mainly of scans of old musical editions out of copyright. In addition, it admits scores by contemporary composers who wish to share their music with the world by releasing it under a Creative Commons license. One of the main projects of IMSLP (almost completed as of April 2007) is the sorting and uploading of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (1851-1899)[2]. Beside J.S. Bach's, Frédéric Chopin's nearly complete oeuvre is available on IMSLP.
Besides providing a digital repository, IMSLP offers possibilities as a musicological encyclopaedia, since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be uploaded, and musicological analyses and historical commentaries accompany the scores.
IMSLP is officially recommended by the MIT[3][4], which also uses it extensively in some of its OpenCourseWare courses.[5][6] It is suggested as a resource by university libraries at Oberlin Conservatory of Music[7], Manhattan School of Music[8], Stanford University[9], McGill University[10], Brown University[11], University of Maryland[12], University of New Mexico[13], University of Washington[14], University of Wisconsin-Madison[15], California Institute of the Arts[16], and several others, and it has been submitted to MERLOT by a member professor.[17]
Similar projects
- Mutopia project: focused on typeset scores.
- Choral Public Domain Library: focused on choral and vocal music.
- Werner Icking Music Archive: contains mainly early music.
References
- ^ http://www.freesheetmusicguide.com/classical.htm
- ^ http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Category:Bach%2C_Johann_Sebastian
- ^ http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/354
- ^ http://libraries.mit.edu/music/
- ^ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Music-and-Theater-Arts/21M-250Fall-2006/Listening/index.htm
- ^ http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Music-and-Theater-Arts/21M-262Fall-2006/Listening/index.htm
- ^ http://oberlinconservatorylibrary.blogspot.com/2007/04/classical-music-in-public-domain.html
- ^ http://library.msmnyc.edu/screens/freestuff.html
- ^ http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/research_help/outsidelinks.html#sheet
- ^ http://www.mcgill.ca/music-library/collections/links/
- ^ http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/program.php?programid=45&task=internet#32
- ^ http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/resources.html
- ^ http://elibrary.unm.edu/subjects/music.php
- ^ http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Music/dr/elsco.html
- ^ http://music.library.wisc.edu/resources/scores.htm#onlinescores
- ^ http://www.calarts.edu/library/researchresources/artsites.html#music
- ^ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=243764