{"id":287,"date":"2009-08-17T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2009-08-17T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:04:23","slug":"state-of-public-domain-sheet-music-searcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"state of public domain sheet music searcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have kept using and improving my <a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/2008\/08\/17\/custom-search-engine-for-public-domain-sheet-music\/\">custom search engine for public domain sheet music<\/a> for about a year now.  It&#8217;s really useful, and all I have to do to maintain it is add new sites as I come across them.  The reason this search engine is necessary is that sheet music vendors and malware sites have successfully gamed the search engines, so you can&#8217;t find free (as in freedom) sheet music unless you whitelist providers.  If you know of new sites, let me know.<\/p>\n<p><p>Sites currently in the whitelist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianoamore.it\">adrianoamore.it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/christmas-carol-music.org\/\">christmas-carol-music.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cpdl.org\">cpdl.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.ucla.edu\">digital.library.ucla.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.sims.berkeley.edu\">fusion.sims.berkeley.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hymntime.com\">hymntime.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/icking-music-archive.org\">icking-music-archive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/indstate.edu\">indstate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\">libraries.mit.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\">library.duke.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mek.oszk.hu\">mek.oszk.hu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/musopen.com\/\">musopen.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mutopiaproject.org\">mutopiaproject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.ischool.berkeley.edu\">people.ischool.berkeley.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/polona.pl\">polona.pl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ragtimepiano.ca\">ragtimepiano.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackley.org\">thehackley.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thesession.org\">thesession.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uploaddownloadperform.net\">uploaddownloadperform.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\">worldcat.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have kept using and improving my custom search engine for public domain sheet music for about a year now. It&#8217;s really useful, and all I have to do to maintain it is add new sites as I come across them. The reason this search engine is necessary is that sheet music vendors and malware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}