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So you're looking to expand your song list. Here are over a hundred sites on the web where you can:
The most recent update of this list was on 29/2/08. It may be that this list demonstrates the web at its most useful - networked information. But this material will only continue to be useful if you, the browser, contribute. PLEASE let us know if you come across a new site AND advise if any of the ones on this list cease to function AND comments on the usefulness, or otherwise, of sites you've explored would be hugely appreciated.
Hope you find a new song to sing.
8 notes.com
Features free sheet music and lessons for many different instruments and pieces and riffs arranged by category (classical, popular, world, etc.) The site also has a directory of over 1,000 music-related sites, a forum, and a free newsletter; Free Music Genres
a-cappella.com
Selection of over 3,000 a cappella items. They sell CDs, sheet music, videos and other a cappella items from all over the world to singers and music enthusiasts around the globe.
a-cappella.it
'tutta sulla musica a cappella in Italia'
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Selected from the Collections of Brown University (American Memory Project, Library of Congress). 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920, all searchable by keyword. Includes subject, name and title indices.
Allans Sheet Music Direct
'Australia's largest sheet music retailer'
American Choral Directors Association
Represents the serious side of singing together. There are some useful pages, particularly the forum under repertoire and standards.
Any Score
On-line sheet music store with a great links page
APRA
The association that collects and distributes Australian and New Zealand copyright royalties for music creators and publishers from around the world has a comprehensive resources web page.
Australian Choral Conductors Education & Training (ACCET)
Aims to be in the forefront of choral education and training in Australia by (amongst many other things) providing information on choral repertoire, literature and arranging, and especially Australian choral music.
Australian Folk Songs
'Don Henderson Project': scores, lyrics and MIDIs of hundreds of songs
Tony Backhouse
Singer, composer, vocal arranger, musical director, workshop leader and author Tony Backhouse, is one of the leaders in the Sydney a cappella movement. He currently directs the Cafe of the Gate of Salvation gospel choir and male trio the Heavenly Lights, and recently also directed community choir the Honeybees for six years. His website includes info about CDs (with audio samples) and songbooks for sale.
Box Hill Chorale
Has an extensive collection of choral works available for hire to other community groups. Currently, there are over 100 titles, with around 7,000 copies.
The Brazilian Songbook
For singers who love Bossa Nova and desire to delve deeper into the rich and diverse vocal styles of Brazilian song. Includes 14 fully arranged vocal scores, instructional CD with spoken Portuguese pronunciation, guitar and percussion notation with aural and written guide (if you can't get the website to work try Di on her email.
Brisbane Concert Choir Music Library
Scores may be lent to other choirs at a negotiable rate.
Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)
'The largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music'. Begun in December 1998, the site has over 8,000 scores by over 1,200 composers
ChoralNet
'The internet centre for choral music;. From their website:
Community: ChoralNet operates two primary mailing lists -- Choralist and ChoralTalk, for choral musicians to exchange ideas, make professional connections, and learn about choral music. ChoralNet also has three forums (bulletin boards), with email options, which provide a place for interaction among specialized choral communities such as those in Europe and Latin America. Together, there are an estimated 10,000 subscribers to these lists. Finally, ChoralNet provides links to other choral communities and organizations worldwide, both electronic and live, and over 5,000 choir websites. Over 3,000 individuals visit the ChoralNet website daily and read over 9,000 pages.
Resources: ChoralNet's extensive resources and links include repertoire lists, reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology, and specialized sections for Church Music and choirs in educational institutions. Some of these are links to other websites; some are compilations of responses to requests for information on Choralist. ChoralNet also has an ever-expanding Multimedia section, with podcasts, blogs, videos, and downloadable scores and recordings.
Choralsongs.com
Denis Donnelly's site: a resource for community choirs that are non-auditioned, although there is lots of material here as well that is more challenging.
Chorus America
The organisation that serves professional and volunteer choruses
Cipoo.net
'Public domain choral music'
The Coasters
One of the great doo-wop groups, established in the 50s and still going
Community Music Victoria
This is us. We've got two double reperotire CDs plus a couple of little ones for sale
The Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA)
'The source of all things a cappella'. Huge selection of a cappella songbooks.
CyberBass
Links to sheet music / MIDI sites and a selection of choral materials
Digital Tradition Folk Music Database
Contains the words and music to thousands of folk songs. These songs have been collected over the last six years by Dick Greenhaus and friends. Also searchable via the Mudcat Cafe
earthsongs
'One World - Many Voices'. Retail sales - over 700 items of choral music, can listen to samples
Ed's Music Resources for Musicians
Extensive links to free sheet music sites and music resources, including latin and salsa music
Fay White
CD 'Singing Landcare' environment songs for all ages. Songbook with ten of these songs available. Description and order form on website.
Faye Dumont Singers Music Library
This choir has been purchasing scores for over 25 years. There are major works and miniatures. Some are accompanied, some a cappella. Also some orchestral sets of a few major works. Numbers of copies vary. There are over 800 of some Christmas works that were bought for massed choirs. However, that is the extreme. Many works bought for the Melbourne Chamber Choir are around 30, many for the Melbourne Women's Choir are 20 - 25. For the Melbourne Master Singers the numbers of male-voiced works are often 10 or fewer. If works are not in the current repertoire of one of the FD choirs, they may be available for hire. Octavo sized works are hired at $1 (approx) each and larger/large works are $2 (approx) with postage on top. Loss or damage will incur extra charges. A full catalogue of the library is nearly completed.
Festival Singers of Wellington: Choral Download Directory
Links to choral music publishers and composers who have complete or sample scores available for viewing or downloading. Generally these are PDF files, and some sites give you the opportunity of listening to sound files in any of a range of formats. In some cases, music notation software files can be downloaded.
Flying Pickets
Website of 'Europe's No 1 a cappella group'. Discography with songlists
Free Sheet Music
Lots of material
Free Sheet Music
Free downloads of public domain sheet music for piano, choral use, organ, violin, and much more. All pieces listed here were already in the public domain when the Sono Bono Term Extension Act was signed into law in 1998. All sheet music downloads are standard notation jpg files; most are sized to 750 pixels wide (to make it easy to print them on a full sheet of paper). Some pieces are listed individually, some books are listed as a whole (especially lesson books) in a zip file format
Free-Scores.com
'The Sheet Music Directory' (aka Mundial Directory). Links to many sites for free choral sheet music
FreeHandMusic
Can buy sheetmusic online
freesheetmusic.net
Search engine for free sheet music
David Gadsby
Range of songbooks from this composer
The Great Canadian Tunebook
Its index: lyrics, notation and MIDIs
Joanne Hammil
Songbooks and CDs from this singing leader, composer and performer
Homespun Tapes
Music training website. They publish Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey & the Rock) Singing In The African American Tradition: Traditional Choral & Congregational Vocal Music (Four CDs plus book).
Learn the melodies, harmony parts and rhythms to more than 20 timeless hymns, spirituals and freedom songs, and participate in the joyous expression of this wonderful vocal tradition
International Association Music Libraries - IAML (Australian Branch)
The professional organisation for those working and interested in music librarianship and the provision of information in music libraries, archives and documentation centres. At an Australian level, IAML aims to provide a forum for the discussion of issues and projects via publications and national conferences; supports the ongoing education of staff and encourages access to music resources on a national level using current technology in conjunction with recognised bibliographic standards and availability of collections. IAML (Aust) aims to promote music libraries and documentation centres as part of our national cultural heritage.
International Federation of Choral Music
Worth a look
J. W. Pepper
'world's largest sheet music retailer'
Kantoreiarchiv
Free sheet music for choir, strings, brass, recorder, organ. cantatas, motets, and masses. Full scores and parts. Site in German and English.
Karl's Choral Music Webpage
25 midi files and sheet music of songs in the Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies Association repertoire
la-la-bye
Samples from Ruth Schoenheimer and Neil Kelly's album, subtitled 'sleep songs from around the world'
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Their official website
Libana
US all-women septet that 'researches and performs women's traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the globe and is dedicated to bringing the joy of singing into people's everyday lives'. Their website offers many of their CDs for sale
Little Anthony and The Imperials
Another of the great doo-wop ensembles (Tears on My Pillow).
Lyrics.com.au
Unlinked web addresses for hundreds of song sites
The Mudcat Cafe
You can download or search the Digital Tradition Folk Music database at this site.
Music Exchange
UK-based on-line retailer of sheet music, printed music books and audio-visual music publications and products.
Music Scores Library On-line
Allows users to select and e-mail scores from their growing selection of works from the standard repertoire by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, and others. Includes new compositions posted by members.
Musica: The Virtual Choral Library
A choral documentary search tool as well as a pedagogic tool for conductors, musicologists, schools of music, musical federations, music stores, etc but it is also for amateurs and people eager to know about the choral music repertoire. It fits perfectly as a database to manage a choral music library in a cooperative way with other libraries. It will be as a necessary tool for a choral conductor as his (her) tuning fork or pitch pipe. MUSICA is a project those goals is to gather information on all choral music of the world into the single research tool. It is an international project and the database is therefore multilingual (French, German, English and Spanish), containing over 150,000 references
Musica Viva: Free Sheet Music Directory
Music for mixed choir a cappella or with accompaniment. Part of the Musica Viva collection of free sheet music.
MusiCalion.Com
'On-line music library'
Musicastampata.com
An on-line printed music store, located in Rome, Italy. Once having established an account, works can be ordered on-line which are then mailed to the purchaser. There are nearly 5000 works listed in their searchable database under the 'choir (unaccompanied)' category. Most appear to be in a classical vein.
MusicAustralia
Online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that helps you to find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. MusicAustralia includes all formats, styles and genres, and both heritage and contemporary music. You can also find information about people and organisations.
musicnotes.com
Online sales source
musicroom.com
'The world's largest music store'
The Mutopia Project
All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute. There are now 351 pieces of music available. Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music. Broadly speaking, copyright on a creative work expires 70 years after the creator's death. This means that the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and many other composers are in the public domain - in principle, they may be copied and performed without restriction. The idea behind the Mutopia Project is that volunteers typeset these editions on a computer, using the GNU Lilypond typesetting software, and make them freely available. The Mutopia Project also contains a growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music. The respective editors, arrangers and composers have chosen to make these works freely available. All may be freely downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed or recorded.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Great site for children's songs with soundbites and lyrics.
National Library of Australia: Music Catalogue
A complete listing of items in their music collection can be found on:
The National Music Lending Scheme (MLS)
The MLS for Choral Scores has been run by the Canberra Choral Society for over 25 years. It is now available on the Web. While anyone can browse and search the musical holdings, only current subscribers can locate the scores for borrowing purposes.
Natural Voice Practitioners Network
British network of voice teachers who share a common ethos and approach to voice work. They believe that singing is everyone's birthright and are committed to teaching styles that are accepting and inclusive of all, regardless of musical experience and ability. This is the connection to the resource page of their website.
New Songs for Peace
This UNESCO-endorsed 'New Songs for Peace' project is intended to encourage people to think about peace, talk about peace, and write a new song that we will collect and self-publish in a book
New Zealand Folk Song
Sheet music, sound files, background.
Nickomo and Rasullah
'Books and CDs - Songs for Choirs and Groups' includes mp3 samples
The Nylons
Primarily A Cappella web page for this Canadian quartet. Discography with songlists.
Nick Page
US singing leader with a resource page worth serious study.
Pass it around
Songbook descriptions from this organisation that promotes singing among marginalised communities
The Persuasions
Primarily A Cappella web page for this great and enduring doo wop ensemble. Discography with songlists.
Planet Patriot
Has links to 'Earth Song' and 'Peace Song' songbooks, albums, websites, artists and lyrics.
The Platters
Another of the 50s doo-wop icons.
Poem Hunter
Lyrics, songs, artists. Find lyrics for a particular theme.
Primarily A Cappella
'Your Source for All Things A Cappella'. Includes wide range of songbooks and tapes for sale.
The Print Musicworks
'Australia's internet print music store'
Rideau Music Ltd
Calgary (Canada) music store with a comprehensive website that includes a great list of 'choral texts'
Rise Up Singing
Details of the ultimate group singing songbook
Rockapella
Official website of the male quintet; this discography page shows how to get songlists and purchase details
RoDeby Music
The music on this website is intended to be good church and choral music in the traditional vein. Contributors are actively sought who would like to make their work freely available to others as well as including existing work in the public domain. Contents include Anthems and Motets, Services and Settings, Hymns and Psalms and a growing collection of carols (the RoDeby Carol Collection is an ongoing project to provide a large collection of carols, both in traditional and new arrangements)
Betsy Rose
Downloadable songs from the founder of the Jericho Harmonics Project
Rounds Galore
Samples, links and purchase details for infinite rounds.
Santa Barbara Music Publishing
'Dedicated to nurturing the choral art'. A huge selection of songs - for looking and listening only.
Peggy Seeger
Still going strong
The Session
The exchange of tunes is what keeps traditional Irish music alive. This website is one way of passing on jigs, reels and other dance tunes. Some of the tunes are well known, and some are more obscure. It's this mixture of the familiar and the new that makes for a good session.
Sharesong
Place where Christian songwriters can publish their worship music (mp3s, midi, sheet music, chord charts, OHTs & lyric sheets) and have churches, worship pastors and home groups around the world use it freely.
Sheet Music Web
Attempting to build the web's largest collection of links to sites containing downloadable sheet music. The sites aren't reviewed (although, the more popular and/or well-designed sites may be listed in bold).
The -Sheet-Music-Store.com
On line retailer of choral sheet music
sheetmusicplus.com
'world's biggest selection'
SheetMusicSearch
As it claims
Sing Along With Me
A collection of traditional Guide, Scout and campfire songs
Sing Online
Index of the songs in the annual ABC songbooks, 1975-2006
Sing Out Publications
Sing Out!'s mission is to preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk music, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives.
Singing for Snorers
A complete programme on CD of singing exercises specifically designed to reduce snoring caused by lax muscles in the upper throat. Created by Alise Ojay, a member of the UK Natural Voice Practitioners Network.
Songs for Teaching
'Using Music to Promote Learning'. From the website: Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum - to students of all ages. Educational experts bring you tested ideas for using the magic of music in your lesson plans. This site contains thousands of pages for you to peruse - many with lyrics, sound clips, and teaching suggestions. The top educational pros offer practical suggestions based on the latest in brain-based learning. Innovative teachers share their classroom pointers and extension activities using children's music. Songs from a wide variety of popular artists are presented by academic subject. (You can) find educational music and children's songs that complement your lesson plans.
SOUNDGARAGE
'One-stop shop for all print music and related accessories. As Australia's Premier Music Educators' Resource Site (it) caters for schools, music teachers, students, parents and all music enthusiasts. Devised, designed and operated specifically for Australian and New Zealand educators to buy on-line, via fax, or over the phone with confidence' by the Soundhouse< team.
Stagepass.com
'Sheet music instruction and resource'
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Details of Continuum: The First Songbook of Sweet Honey in the Rock Contemporary A Cappella Publishing (exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation and available from Allans)
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Library
Collection reflects the courses, performance and research needs of staff and students. Ranges from early music to current avant-garde, including jazz and popular music. It includes scores (many with multiple-copies), CDs, vinyl recordings, books, orchestral sets and journals. The Con aims to maintain a representative collection of Australian performers and composers, particularly if they had anything to do with the Con or the Sydney music scene.
Symphony Services Australia: National Music Library
The principal collection for the Symphony Australia orchestral network. Used to be called the Federal Music Library and the ABC Print Music Library. Holdings include over 13,000 choral scores. Part of the collection is available for hire to organisations outside the Symphony Australia orchestral network. This service is limited to customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Only non-copyright music is available for outside hire.
Taize and Brother Roger
Religious community in Burgundy France. Sheet music and midi files for a bunch of beautiful religious songs including Nada te Turbe.
University of Alicante free choral sheet music
Free choral sheet music.
University of Melbourne, Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library
Has an extensive collection of choral sets. These, if not required for use by the Faculty of Music, may be hired by other organisations. Choral Scores: A$2.20 per copy (incl GST), plus postage (where incurred). Additional costs may be incurred if material is returned late, incomplete or damaged.
Candy Verney
The site where you can find the details of her CDs for in the round singing.
Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association
The merchandise page of this association of teachers and supporters of music education.
Virtual Sheet Music
Provides, for a fee, downloadable copies of classical works from the 17th-20th centuries, which can be subsequently displayed and/or printed
Welcome to Music
'everything you need to make teaching music easy and fun'. Product page.
Wikifonia
'place for musicians to publish and collaborate on lead sheets'
World Music Press
'Top quality, award-winning multicultural music books, recordings and choral music for educators, community outreach programs and music lovers.' No sound samples available but looks like great stuff.
Young Voices of Melbourne
Mark O'Leary's product page
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