Mutopia Project

{{Short description|Volunteer-run library of free content sheet music}} {{multiple issues| {{notability|web|date=July 2014}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2014}} }}

{{Infobox website | name = | logo = | logo_size =  | logo_alt = | logocaption = | screenshot = | screenshot_size =  | screenshot_alt = | caption = | collapsible = | collapsetext = | url = {{URL|http://www.mutopiaproject.org/}} | commercial = No | type = Music score library | registration = No | language = English | num_users = | content_license = {{nobr|Creative Commons Attribution / Share-Alike}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mutopiaproject.org/legal.html |title=License details |website=Mutopia Project |access-date=April 15, 2022}}</ref> | programming_language = | owner = | author = | editor = | launch_date = 2000 | revenue = | alexa =  | current_status = | footnotes = }} [[File:BeethovenSymponyNo5.JPG|thumb|Symphony No. 5 of Ludwig van Beethoven, music sheet released by the Mutopia Project]] 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.<ref>Portal page at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20010123221500/http://www.mutopiaproject.org/index.html Internet Archive] Retrieved January 24, 2001.</ref>

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.

{{asof|2024}}, there are 2124 pieces of music available, over a third of which are for piano.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ |title= The Mutopia Project |access-date= 2024-03-21 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240318205524/http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ |archive-date= 2024-03-18 |url-status= live }}</ref>

== 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

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== External links == {{Commons category|Mutopia}} *[http://www.MutopiaProject.org/ Mutopia Project home page] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090417172414/http://eremita.di.uminho.pt/mutopia/ Mutopia Project mirror (Portugal)] *[https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject Project maintenance site] *[https://scorenow.co/ Live Scores] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319062639/https://scorenow.co/ |date=2023-03-19 }} *[https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mutopia_Project Creative Commons Content Directory listing] *[https://archive.today/20140127002629/http://wiki-score.org/ Wiki-score], an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing

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