Werner Icking Music Archive
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The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. WIMA continues the defunct GMD Music Archive and is named after its founder, the late Werner Icking.
WIMA offers primarily classical music, but the archive also contains jazz scores. WIMA is also the home site of MusiXTeX, a suite of open source music typesetting utilities based on the typesetting system TeX
The majority of the compositions represented in WIMA is early music. Some of the early music scores published in WIMA are the first modern editions of these compositions. A number of contemporary composers have chosen to publish their works in WIMA.
The older music offered in WIMA is out of copyright. The scores are electronically typeset by volunteers and distributed in PDF, often accompanied by their typesetting files.
See also
- Public domain resources
Other public domain music projects
- Choral Public Domain Library ()
- The Sheet Music Archive
- Mutopia Project
- [SheetMusicFox Library]
External links
- [The Werner Icking Music Archive]
- [WIMA list of free sheet music archives]
- [Project Gutenberg music section]
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