What with the closure* of IMSLP, several people are without access to sheet music. While, IMSLP was the major free Public Domain sheet music site, it wasn't the only one. Many of the pieces on IMSLP are, in fact, from other sites. The main purpose of IMSLP was to collect PD sheet music, both from a scanned score and from Internet sources. The reason for this being so that you wouldn't have to search throughout the Internet and various smaller PD sheet music sites for a file - it was all in one spot.
The myriad of sites [that were] available on the IMSLP main page although extremely helpful, can be rather disconcerting regarding the sheer number of them. Below I will list a few which I use personally, and believe are of greater significance from the list above:
- Variations Project at Indiana University - low-resolution scans.
- Mutopia - Re-typeset Scores
- Choral Public Domain Library - Collection of Choral Music in various formats
- Sheetmusicfox.com - Reported to contain scores from SMA but not limited to 2 downloads per day
- NMA - Neue Mozart-Ausgabe - Complete Scores of Mozart†
None are as extensive as the 15,000 strong IMSLP collection, but they should be effective in the mean time until IMSLP comes back - which it will.
*There is much to be discussed about the closure of IMSLP, but that is not what I wish to delve into right now.
† An accompanying Complete Recordings of Mozart's works can be found here. The legality of the site is not stated - as far as I can see. Download with caution.
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