IMSLP:Contributor Portal
Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Welcome to the IMSLP Contributor Portal!
This page is the central place to learn about contributing to the International Music Score Library Project.
If you have questions, or if you want to discuss with other community members, you can use the IMSLP forums.
Contributing music scores
Basic Guides
- How to Submit a Score — short and easy guide
- Performers Portal — for recordings.
- Copyright Made Simple — Mandatory reading for all IMSLP contributors.
Manual
Titles in italics link to important reference pages that are not part of the manual.
- Introduction
- 1. Verifying copyright status — how to determine if your score can be uploaded
- Permissible licenses for re-typesetted scores and own compositions
- Creative Commons and Performance Restricted licenses
- Public domain — Detailed information on copyright laws
- Music Publishers — Reference about music publishers
- Orchestrators, Arrangers and Editors — Biographical information
- Writers, Lyricists and Translators — Biographical information (for vocal works)
- 2. Scanning music scores
- IMSLP:High Quality Scanning — Scanning scores at a very high quality.
- 3. Submitting scores to IMSLP
- Manual of Style
- Special cases
- IMSLP:Image Conversion — for converting external scans to high quality monochrome (600 dpi).
Resources
- User scanning queue: Check what other users are working on, and post what you will scan to avoid redundancies.
- Wishlist: Find out what other users are looking for, and express your own wishes.
- Other music score websites
- Used sheet music stores
- Info on file formats
Community projects
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Current projects:
- The Sibley Mirroring Project (ongoing)
- The Merton Music Project
- The Gaylord Acquisition Project
- Acquisition of the MIT archive
- Scanning of scores from the Cook Score Project
- Acquisition of the public domain portion of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe
- The Xian Xinghai Project
New proposals can be explained here. Archives that are bound to get lost should preferentially be chosen.
Community News
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- 30 August 2010 — Congratulations to our newest CR, BKhon and admin, Schissel!
- 27 August 2010 – New community project Translation of the Week: help us create and update the translations of the most important project pages
- 31 May 2010 – Congratulations to our newest (and much belated :) CR, Funper!
- 20 March 2010 — After almost 11 weeks of the tagging project, 31 of the existing 60 genre categories have been completed, and just over 50% of all the works on IMSLP have now been tagged by the new categorization system!
- There is now a Composer Stubs category, to help organise finding more information on obscure composers.
- A new page lists second hand music stores across the world.
Community
Communication
- The IMSLP forum is the central place for all discussions concerning IMSLP, as well as music in general.
- Use the Babel and Instrument templates to tell others what languages you speak, what instruments you play and to find other users.
Organization
IMSLP organisation and development
There are many ways to help improve IMSLP, apart from submitting music scores. Find out how:
- Maintenance: Several tasks related to the regular maintenance of the IMSLP website.
- Development: Planned improvements of the IMSLP website, design, and the underlying software.
- Electronic score searching: There are a lot of music loving people on the internet who have already scanned musical works that are in the public domain. However, they are scattered far and wide, and at times a pain to find. Electronic score searchers will find such scores, and put them in the appropriate category here on IMSLP. See also the list of other music score websites.
- Internationalization: Help translate IMSLP into other languages.
- Linking across projects: Help adding links to and from other projects.
