Helpful Websites for Musicians
SCORES:
Petrucci Music Library (by International Music Score Library Project)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free downloadable Public Domain Scores. In the U.S., scores published before 1923 are Public Domain.
Choral Public Domain
http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main Page
An invaluable source for Choral Works (Choral literature only)
Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music)
http://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/?page=request
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/browseCollectionItems.action?collectionld=25
Search and download digitized scores for free.
Sheet Music on the Web (by Sheet Music Consortium)
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
This is a new project. It links to several important libraries worldwide and has thousands of scores for free download.
The Mutopia Project
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
Free Domain classical sheet-music for free download, including some that might be ‘hard to get’.
Free Sheet Music Library
Older editions of classical composers. Features the complete Bach Cantatas.
Classical Scores.com
http://www.classical-scores.com/free/organ-rwinsteng-43-3.html
Classical organ music (Bach, Handel, Pachelbel) for free download
Harvard University free digital scores
http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=scores
Free scores and libretti for download, but very little organ music.
Gregorian Chant
02.-MASTER LISTS OF ONLINE RESOURCES FOR THE MUSICIAN:
(For support: Directories of Resources Lists)
Worldwide Internet Music Resources List (from Indiana University)
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Finding Scores Online List (from Yale University)
http://guides.library.yale.edu/online_scores
Resources for Music Scholars List (from Harvard University)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/biblio/onmusic/hclweb/page/1
Includes Americana
Sheet Music Collections Online List (from University of Chicago Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/sheetmusic.html
Sheet Music Collections Online List (from Duke University)
http://library.duke.edu?music/sheetmusic/collections.html
Internet Archive
AUDIO RESOURCES:
“National Jukebox” by Library of Congress
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Free downloads or streaming online
Belfer Cylinders Collection (from Syracuse University)
http://library.syr.edu/splash/cylinders/
MISCELLANEOUS:
Hymnary.org
Rapidly growing hymn and hymnal reference site.
http://www.hymnary.org
Hymn Tune Index
http://hymntune.library.uiuc.edu/
J.S. Bach Biography
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxjsbach.html
Silberman Organs
http://www.baroquemusic.org/silbeng.html
Pictures, history, location of 31 original instruments
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The complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany as FREE INTERNET DOWNLOADS:
INFORMATION SOURCES REGARDING THE ORGAN:
AGO Boston Chapter Organ Library
Photocopies of Out of Print and Public Domain material are available for a moderate fee. Donations of organ related books, music and literature as well as financial support are encouraged.
Electronic Resources for the Organ (by: Dr. W. Dan Hardin)
www.fiu.edu/~hardind/organ_resources.html
Pipe Organ information for children:
American Organ Institute (AOI) from the University of Oklahoma:
General, Technical and biographical information about pipe organs, especially Theater and “Symphonic” organs:
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ORGAN ASSOCIATIONS:
American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO):
The associate Pipe Organ Builders of America (APOBA):
Organ Historical Society (OHS):
The Reed Organ Society (ROS):
http://eccs.onu.edu/~estell/organs/ros.html
American Theater Organ Society (ATOS):
Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society
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ORGAN RELATED ONLINE FORUMS AND CHATLISTS:
Pipechat:
Piporg-L: