I have a new source of historical sheet music: odin.indstate.edu. It’s not large or well organized, but it does have stuff that nobody else does, and it does have the real music stuff and not just the covers, so I have added it to my custom search engine for public domain sheet music.
The Joy Drops
Acoustic Americana. A good times band.
thanks! this is a great feature of this site.
This really needs to be a collaborative project, like a wiki…
You know, a public domain or CC BY wiki where people post links to free and legal sheet is a good idea. I’d post to it. Perhaps it would have two “streams”–posts about where the music is and posts of conversational interest.
or perhaps it is a “true wiki” in which terms have meanings and such 🙂
speaking wiki-ishly, I just found
Musopen, a new non-profit which mutopia-like-ishly provides classical PD sheet music:
http://www.musopen.com/
I have added musopen to the list of sites in the index.
Here’s the current list:
http://digital.library.ucla.edu
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
http://library.duke.edu
http://library.msstate.edu
http://memory.loc.gov/
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca
indstate.edu
musopen.com/