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{{Short description|Volunteer-run library of free content sheet music}}
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[[File:BeethovenSymponyNo5.JPG|thumb|[[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 5]] of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], music sheet released by the Mutopia Project]]
The '''Mutopia Project''' is a volunteer-run effort to create a library of [[free content]] [[sheet music]], in a way similar to [[Project Gutenberg]]'s library of [[public domain]] books.  It started in 2000.<ref>Portal page at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20010123221500/http://www.mutopiaproject.org/index.html Internet Archive] Retrieved January 24, 2001.</ref>

The music is reproduced from old scores that are in the [[public domain]]. New scores are [[Music engraving#Computer music engraving|digitally typeset]] with [[LilyPond|GNU LilyPond]] and distributed in the following formats:
* [[Portable Document Format|PDF format]] in both [[Letter (paper size)|letter]] and [[A4 paper#A series|A4]] paper sizes for printing,
* [[Musical Instrument Digital Interface|MIDI]] for aural reproduction, and 
* [[LilyPond]] source code format.

{{asof|2024}}, there are 2124 pieces of music available, over a third of which are for piano.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ |title= The Mutopia Project |access-date= 2024-03-21 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240318205524/http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ |archive-date= 2024-03-18 |url-status= live }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of online music databases]]
* [[Public domain resources]]
* [[Open music]]
* [[International Music Score Library Project]], a similar music cataloging project, that collects both typeset and [[image scanner|scanned]] scores.
*[[Werner Icking Music Archive]]
*[[Choral Public Domain Library]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Mutopia}}
*[http://www.MutopiaProject.org/ Mutopia Project home page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090417172414/http://eremita.di.uminho.pt/mutopia/ Mutopia Project mirror (Portugal)]
*[https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject Project maintenance site]
*[https://scorenow.co/ Live Scores]
*[https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mutopia_Project Creative Commons Content Directory listing]
*[https://archive.today/20140127002629/http://wiki-score.org/ Wiki-score], an online, collaborative platform for large-scale sheet music editing

[[Category:Collaborative projects]]
[[Category:Online music and lyrics databases]]
[[Category:Libre culture]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2000]]
[[Category:Canadian music websites]]


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