Mutopia Project Explained

Commercial:	No
Type:	Music score library
Registration:	No
Language:	English
Content License:	^[1]
Launch Date:	2000

The Mutopia Project is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of free content sheet music, in a way similar to Project Gutenberg's library of public domain books. It started in 2000.^[2]

The music is reproduced from old scores that are in the public domain. New scores are digitally typeset with GNU LilyPond and distributed in the following formats:

• PDF format in both letter and A4 paper sizes for printing,
• MIDI for aural reproduction, and
• LilyPond source code format.

, there are 2124 pieces of music available, over a third of which are for piano.^[3]

See also

• List of online music databases
• Public domain resources
• Open music
• International Music Score Library Project, a similar music cataloging project, that collects both typeset and scanned scores.
• Werner Icking Music Archive
• Choral Public Domain Library

External links

• Mutopia Project home page
• Mutopia Project mirror (Portugal)
• Project maintenance site
• Live Scores
• Creative Commons Content Directory listing
• Wiki-score, an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing

Notes and References

1. Web site: License details . Mutopia Project . April 15, 2022.
2. Portal page at the Internet Archive Retrieved January 24, 2001.
3. Web site: The Mutopia Project . 2024-03-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240318205524/http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ . 2024-03-18 . live .