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  Project Gutenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The slogan of the project is "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy", chosen because the project hopes to continue the work of spreading public literacy and appreciation for our literary heritage that public libraries began in the early 20th century.
It was not until the year 2000 that Project Gutenberg was formally organized as an independent legal entity, and it is now a non-profit corporation chartered in Mississippi with an IRS ruling that donations to it are tax-deductible.
Project Runeberg is a similar project for the Nordic language texts, begun in 1992.
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 Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The slogan of the project is "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy", chosen because the project hopes to continue the work of spreading public literacy and appreciation for the literary heritage that public libraries began in the early 20th century.
The Project holds a trademark on Project Gutenberg, and commercial use of the etexts under the trademark require a fee to be paid to Project Gutenberg.
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www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gutenberg_Project   (1287 words)

  
 Welcome to the Mutopia Project
Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music.
The idea behind the Mutopia Project is that volunteers typeset these editions on a computer, using the GNU Lilypond typesetting software, and make them freely available.
Disclaimer: The Mutopia Project is run by volunteers, and the material within it is provided "as-is".
www.mutopiaproject.org   (762 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenburg - but consists of a growing collection of free sheet music.
These have been placed on Mutopia by the respective editor, arranger or composer, and all are free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
Disclaimer: The Mutopia project is run by volunteers, and the music within it is provided to you "as-is".
gd.tuwien.ac.at /pub/Mutopia/readme.txt   (439 words)

  
 Titivillus: Library
Project Mutopia - Mutopia is a much more recent effort, but is basically the Project Gutenberg of sheet music.
Digital Atheneum Project - A project to keep high resolution digital images of original manuscripts in a library and allow scholars to translate and markup those documents without having to go the places those works are actually kept.
The Newton Project - A project to create XML versions of all of Newton's works, and the margin notes of works in his private library, as well as scans of the originals.
tos.maintree.com /titivillus/library.asp   (2542 words)

  
 Project Gutenberg / 255, Mar 2004 / Archive / Media Action / Publications / Home - WACC site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library on the Internet of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary counterpart of the historic Rosetta Stone.
Our intention is to create a unique platform for comparative linguistic research and education as well as a functional linguistic tool that might help in the recovery or revitalization of lost languages in unknown futures.
www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/layout/set/print/content/view/full/969   (1041 words)

  
 Project Gutenberg biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The project has released over 13,000 electronic books, almost entirely produced by volunteers, and remains active.
See list of digital library projects for a more comprehensive list of digital library efforts.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE (German) — not a German branch of PG Project Gutenberg of Chinese
project-gutenberg.biography.ms   (1105 words)

  
 UNC School of Information and Library Science
The idea behind the Mutopia Project is that volunteers typeset public domain editions of sheet music using the GNU Lilypond typesetting software and make them freely available.
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library and other research communities.
Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries.
ils.unc.edu /sils/news/releases/2004/07_ibiblioaugust.htm   (487 words)

  
 Eyes and Ears: A Book of Music for Sight-Singing
There is a small amount of didactic text, but if you're going to use the book for self-instruction, you'll need some background in basic music theory, and preferably access to someone knowledgeable to provide guidance.
In cases where the Lilypond source code file was entered by me, Ben Crowell, from a public-domain source, I dedicate that particular file to the public domain.
As noted in the source code, a particular Lilypond file may be from the Mutopia project, and then the editorial work that went into creating that is copyrighted by the person who did the work.
www.lightandmatter.com /sight/sight.html   (909 words)

  
 Software: Digital Music Network
MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores - a project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH).
Mutopia Project - a collection of sheet music.
RWC (Real World Computing) Music Database - a copyright-cleared music database that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research.
www.elec.qmul.ac.uk /dmrn/databases.html   (171 words)

  
 Mutopia Newsletters and Mailing Lists
Please note that the Mutopia newsletter is mailing list is not currently operating.
The Mutopia discussion mailing list is still operational.
The Mutopia newsletter is produced from time to time, and contains a list of all the music that's been submitted since the previous newsletter, and any other Mutopia news.
www.ibiblio.org /mutopia/newsletters.html   (156 words)

  
 Mutopia: Legal Issues
Yes, all music on Mutopia may be downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded, without payment.
Note that you are not normally permitted to perform sheet music in public either - you usually need to pay extra royalties for this.
Works published after 1922 in the USA may be subject to additional restrictions, so music typeset from such editions is not accepted for the Mutopia archive.
sca.uwaterloo.ca /Mutopia/legal.html   (866 words)

  
 Roll over, Beethoven: Your sheet music's online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The creators of the Mutopia Project hope to change all that, one composition at a time.
Impressed, he volunteered to bring the Mutopia Project to a larger audience by creating the Web site in August 1999, and has since seen the collection grow from about 40 works at the beginning of this year to more than 90 today.
Despite their policy to honor copyrights, the Mutopia Project volunteers have been watching the music industry's crackdown on MP3 sites with concern.
www.usatoday.com /tech/2001-07-05-net-interest.htm   (535 words)

  
 The Ten Thousand Year Blog » 2004 » August   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Summary: “The project’s objective is to provide technical solutions and integrated systems for digital preservation of all types of audiovisual collections.
The project intends to provide tangible results in the domain of preservation, restoration, storage and archive management, content description, delivery and access.
MOM is a commonly used abbreviation in medieval charters for the Latin word monasterium and recently became a symbol for a project, which in its special way is unique within the historical sciences.
www.davidmattison.ca /wordpress?m=200408&paged=2   (1867 words)

  
 The Sheet Music Subproject - Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance.
Project Gutenberg also received a donation from an anonymous family foundation to help start the sheet music project.
We recommend Mutopia Project, which has many pieces of sheet music.
www.gutenberg.org /music   (163 words)

  
 Mutopia: Gunzip information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gunzip is a program for uncompressing gzipped files, which is the method of compression used for PostScript files on Mutopia.
Once you have downloaded the program, you need to copy it into the same directory as the files you've downloaded from Mutopia (which should end in.gz) and open a command prompt [DOS] window.
The version of gunzip on this page was ported to Win32 by K. Syring, who has also ported many other common unix utilities - see http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
eremita.di.uminho.pt /mutopia/gunzip.html   (290 words)

  
 Mutopia: Projects being worked on
This is a list of all projects that are currently being worked on - hopefully this should avoid two people entering the same piece of music.
If you would like to add a project to this list, please send your name, e-mail address and the name of the music you are entering to (at) MutopiaProject.org>.
If you abandon a project part way through, then feel free to e-mail what you've done so far so cancelled can be put by the project - anyone else can then continue it.
mutopia.planetmirror.com /projects.html   (1111 words)

  
 enikos - Tutorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Note that the reference to the resource is displayed, and the Mutopia logo is rendered in the Resource view also (you can turn resource rendering in the Editor window off in the Preferences).
You can see that the Mutopia logo and the plain text (also used to label the item in the Navigation view) are rendered in the Description view.
The Mutopia Project provides several resources related to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach.
www.enikos.com /support_tutorial.shtml   (3368 words)

  
 Ferl - Mutopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Additional restrictions in the USA mean that only works published there prior to 1923 are in the public domain.
All music is available as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files, for both A4 and Letter paper sizes, as well as Lilypond's own file format (.ly).
You can also subscribe to the Mutopia mailing list to receive regular emails about new additions to the site.
ferl.becta.org.uk /display.cfm?resID=5890&page=628&catID=168   (602 words)

  
 Project Gutenberg - OpenWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As of September, 2004, Project Gutenberg claimed almost 14,000 books in its collection.
As of July 2004, the project has released over thirteen thousand electronic books, almost entirely produced by volunteers, and remains active.
This page was last modified 12:22, 7 Nov 2004.
www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php?title=Project_Gutenberg&printable=yes   (1070 words)

  
 [gweekly] PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The following was contributed by the project team leader, Chris Sawer: "The Mutopia project consists of a growing online collection of sheet music, all of which may be freely downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded.
If you have a book that has been scanned, but not yet run through OCR (optical character recognition) or proofed, and you would like the Distributed Proofreaders to work on it, please email dphelp at pgdp.net and we will get things started.
Donate by credit card online: NetworkForGood: http://www.guidestar.org/partners/networkforgood/donate.jsp?ein=64-6221541 or PayPal to "donate at gutenberg.org": http://www.paypal.com /xclick/business=donate%40gutenberg.organditem_name=Donate+to+Gutenberg Project Gutenberg's success is due to the hard work of thousands of volunteers over more than 33 years.
lists.pglaf.org /pipermail/gweekly/2004-December/000041.html   (3999 words)

  
 The British Columbia Digital Library: Collections by Subject: Songs and Music
The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community." The site can be searched or browsed a variety of ways, including an experimental version of the Java-based ICONCLASS system.
"The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920." Collection is browsable and searchable.
This collection complements an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885 as well as the Band Music from the Civil War Era and Sheet Music from the Civil War Era ['We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!']." Date accessed: 2002-09-26.
bcdlib.tc.ca /links-subjects-songsandmusic.html   (1986 words)

  
 Newsbytes News Network: Internet Update - News Briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Readers have Project Gutenberg to connect them with classic - and not so classic - texts now in the public domain.
The Mutopia Project is amassing a library of "sheet music" containing works for which copyright restrictions have expired.
Just as Gutenberg's volunteers tackle the task of getting sometimes huge texts into electronic form, Mutopia's supporters laboriously map out their tunes one note at a time.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_2001_Jan_26/ai_69545847   (834 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.net/find.shtml which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria).
Mirrors (copies) of the complete collection are available around the world, and you can select one nearer to your location from the link on the search results page.
And to directly access the file directories: http://gutenberg.net/dirs/ Please note that the Project Gutenberg Production Team continues the process of manually re-posting those eBooks originally posted prior to Nov 2003 to the new filenaming and directory system (based on the eBook number).
lists.pglaf.org /pipermail/gmonthly/2005.txt   (1947 words)

  
 The Ten Thousand Year Blog » Blog Archive » Mutopia Project, free sheet music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Welcome to the Mutopia Project … a place where music is free for everyone!
I have a list of every historic sheet music collection — except for the Mutopia Project — I’ve found in my British Columbia Digital Library guide.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2004 at 07:58 and is filed under Collaborative Web, Digital Libraries and Collections, Searcher Magazine Threads, Intellectual Property Rights.
www.davidmattison.ca /wordpress?p=669   (350 words)

  
 Netlife
The music resource enables visitors to download more than 1,500 free sheet music pieces and riffs with numerous step-by-step lessons to help budding players get the most from their instruments.
If 8Notes does not have the classical piece that you are looking for, check out the Mutopia Project.
These marks may not be copied or used without permission.
www.8notes.com /reviews/daily_telegraph.htm   (176 words)

  
 The Violin Site :: Legal Information
Yes, music on The Violin Site comes from the Mutopia project and may be downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded, without payment.
All music is either in the public domain, released under the MutopiaBSD licence, or released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Music released under this licence on Mutopia is given the additional permission that attribution is not required in audio derivatives of the work.
www.theviolinsite.com /legal.html   (836 words)

  
 BrainLog
This mildly interesting mailing list message critiques LilyPad and the general notion of music notation software.
The Mutopia Project is one of several public domain sheet music projects, a sort of Project Gutenberg for sheet music.
Project Gutenberg has a sheet music section of its own.
www.dansanderson.com /blog/archives/2002/12/gnu_lilypond_is.php   (206 words)

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