Choral Public Domain Library

Good to hear that maintenance work on CPDL is done. After the upgrade, I have noticed however a very poor performance of the CDPL website. When trying to perform a search, I always obtain the message "To many database connections. Try again later", which seems to indicate a database config...

I may be wrong, but I think that CC was not yet established when CPDL was started. Other sites like Mutopia ( http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ ) had also started with their own licenses. Mutopia has meanwhile switched to CC, but obviously CPDL has not yet done the transition. Nor does it seemed to be ...

Incidentally the situaton is the same in Germany: it is not possible to put an own work into the public domain, because authorship is simply a fact and copyright terms (70 years after death, in France I believe even longer) cannot be changed. Actually this is one of the problems that the Creative Co...

Sheet music of Copland's "Simple Gifts" arrangement is readily available in print (a simple Google search will show publishers selling it). It seems that melody and lyrics of the song (but not Copland's arrangement, of course) are in the public domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_G...

When a composer dies, his copyright falls to his heirs. So when the music is still under copyright, you must ask his formal heir for permission, which might be your grandfather, but if he is not the only heir things can become very complicated. Whether the music is still under copyright, depends on ...

This is not easy to answer because it depends on the source used for your transcription. When you are using a microfilm or photocopy of a 16th century print (e.g. provoded by a library or through a facsimile reprint), you are free to post your transcription wherever you like. When your source is a m...

After a superficial web search it seems that the 1970 facsimile reprint by "Corpus of early music" of Gastoldi's Balletti a 5v is out of print (I would however suggest to contact the publisher whether this is actually true). Alternatively you could look for a library that has this edition....

Does anyone know from which source this piece is? I was not aware that Caccini wrote sacred music. Can it be that this is a text underlay under some other secular piece, maybe even with major editorial changes like removing the written out diminuitions, which are very valuable for singers learning h...

Have you checked

http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/

? This site should contain almost all works by Victoria, Guerrero and Morales.

The copyright information given on he main page that "all scores hosted on CPDL may freely be distributed and performed" seems to be somewaht misleading. At least I have incidentally come upon some pieces hosted on the CPDL server that bear very different copyright notices. For instance th...

There seems to be a misunderstanding: this is the Choral Public Domain Library, which essetnially means that you can find here only music written by composers that are more than 70 years dead. If "Il Divo" is a contemporary pop music group, the only way to obtain sheet music of their arran...

What is "Il Divo"? Sounds like the title of a Handel opera. Please let us know the composer of this piece and when it was published. Maybe someone can figure out a library that holds an extant copy.

I do not know in which EU country a "graphical copyright" exists, but AFAIK there is no such thing in Germany. The 25 years period however exists in Germany, but for posthumous published works and for "scientific critical editions", i.e. editions using more than one primary sourc...

I bet that most pieces by Arnold von Bruck have also been published in the "Denkmäler der Tonkunst" Editions, which are in almost every music library. The editions are faithful to the original sources and have appeared in the first half of the 20th century, so that they are now in the publ...