Choral Public Domain Library

Thanks for the info. What is the best title for a work with a multilingual (not merely a translation) text that uses both texts overlaid (simultaneously)? A natural title would be "Latin incipit / German incipit / English incipit". Is there some other delimeter that is recommended and that...

Dear CPDL maintainers, due to a typo in the title field, I have created to work pages for the same piece. It includes in total six arrangements, but one was addtionally created because I fixed the tiypo during uploading this arrangement in the "Add new edition" form: https://www.cpdl.org/w...

What is your question? I guess you refer to the consecution of F sharp and B flat in bar 86, which seems to be against the ficta rules. But as the tablature by Fuenllana is un refutable evidence that this progression was used indeed , whay would you want to change it? Note that this same cadence als...

Great that you are willing to take the trouble! I wonder whether the copyright disclaimer on Tom Lehrer's website should be copied on every work page, or only once on his composer/lyricist page (the latter currently don't exist on CPDL). There seems to be no fitting pre-defined license on CPDL that ...

Dear CDPL team, recently, Tom Lehrer has made his songs freely available on https://tomlehrersongs.com and put them into the public domain. The website includes the following notce: THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T ...

What about commissioning arrangements from arrangers that you deem fitting? Just contact Krby Shaw and the others.

I agree that purely instrumental music should be posted elsewhere, e.g. on IMSLP, which already has an entry for Thomas Mancinus (it only has one entry, a vocal collection, but IMSLP is for vocal and instrumental music alike): https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Mancinus,_Thomas Can someone of the CPDL ...

It is a pity that noone has answered so far. This might be due to the fact that CPDL has no support for translations: there is not even a systematic way to specify meta information about a translation like, e.g., the translator, publication year, copyright status etc. This should not prevent you, ho...

For a more informed answer, you might post your question at https://forum.musicasacra.com/ . If you feel that Agnus I + Agnus II misses one repetition, or if even this is too long, a simple solution is to sing parts as chant from the Kyriale, e.g. Agnus I polyphonic - chanted Agnus I - Agnus II poly...

An answer to @cgz about the motivation for dissonance heavy compositions. Dissonances can have many different functions: a) They can be used to drag to some other chord (functional harmnonics in classical and romantic music or in modern popular music) b) They can be used as expressive means, which o...

Why do you think that the changes are intentional? The Wikipedia site does not make this allegation and I am not sure whether the sources given there are even correct: There is no verse "Aspice Domine" in psalm 119, and https://gregorian.info gives Baruch 2,16 as source, which reads "...

Two obvious suggestions:

• "Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain" by Claude Debussy. In the public domain and available on CPDL.

• "En Hiver" by Paul Hindemith. Still under copyright and available from Schott and resellers.

From your description, it seems that you are looking for "Falsobordone" settings. See this very informative Video (by "Early Music Sources") for an introduction and an explanation of the difference to "fauxbourdon" and "faburden": https://youtu.be/j9y5N13un9s ...

LJoy: " Or was that a thing only really begun by the Romantics?" No, apart from Petrarca, there were many other "notable poets" in Italy. Actually almost all madrigals were based on high quality poetry. One particular popular poet was Guarini, of whose "Il Pastor fido" ...

A look at the CPDL categories "Madrigal" (https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Madrigals) and "Chansons" (https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Chansons) should yield enough stuff for more than a life time.