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Open Music Archive is a project that collects and preserves recordings from the public domain. You can browse and download music by tags, such as decade, genre, artist, or song title.
Browse and download over 100,000 mp3 files of classical music by composers, performers, instruments, tags, forms, or time periods. All the music is royalty and copyright free for projects such as YouTube videos, films, games, and more.
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- Open Music Archive
- Musopen
- Freesound
- FreePD.com
- International Music Score Library Project
- ChoralWiki
- Digital History
- Pixabay
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Public domain music is completely legal and free for you to listen to, download, and use for any reason. These songs are different from free music streaming services because this music is actually yours to keep.
Another public domain music site with free downloads is Open Music Archive. The point of this site is to digitize out-of-copyright sound recordings.
There are tons of tags you can click through here, including instrumental, 1920s, blues, weird, solo, work, country, dance lessons, and remix.
Every sound is downloadable as an MP3, but you can also stream them through their SoundCloud page.
Open Music Archive's songs are hosted in the UK and are in the public domain there. If you're accessing this site outside the UK, please know there may be different copyright laws in your country that don't permit you to download these files.
Musopen has public domain classical music downloads. You can browse for free songs by composer, instrument, period, mood, length, license, and more, plus download sheet music to accompany the music.
Something unique about this source is it's not just for downloads. There's a classical music radio page you can use to stream the public domain songs from any device.
Freesound is a little different from the other resources on this list because instead of sheet music or downloadable songs, it offers a huge database of hundreds of thousands of sounds: birdsong, thunderstorms, voice snippets, etc.
It aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, and other sounds released under Creative Commons licenses that allow for reuse.
Freesound provides interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing you to browse them using keywords, tag, location, and more. You can also sort the sounds by number of downloads to easily see the most popular ones.
You can upload and download sounds to and from the database under the same Creative Commons license and interact with fellow artists.
If you're looking to create a new and unique project, this site could be a great resource for you.
SoundBible.com is another site like Freesound, but it's too small of a collection to warrant its own spot on this list. However, some of the sounds there get over 100 thousand downloads, so it's clearly used by many, and the files are available in both WAV and MP3.
FreePD.com is a straightforward website full of public domain songs. Everything can be previewed before downloading and you get any and all music in the MP3 format.
Some of the categories here include Epic Dramatic, Romantic Sentimental, Upbeat Positive, World, Horror, Electronic, and Comedy.
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a great resource for public domain music, with over half a million music scores and tens of thousands of recordings and composers.
Search by composer name, composer period, check out the featured scores, or browse the most recent additions. The random tool is another way to find sheet music and public domain songs.
ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library, is a fantastic resource for anyone who's looking for some great public domain music.
You can search for music for Advent and Christmas, look at the entire Online Score catalog, or browse the archives for what's been added month to month. Sacred music is categorized by season.
Hosted by the University of Houston, this site says it's designed specifically for history teachers and their students. It has copyright-free, public domain music from the 1920s, as well as blues music, Civil War related songs, jazz, Irish music, and more.
Every link goes directly to the download, so you can preview them in your browser before deciding whether to keep them. There are dozens of downloads here, all on the same page, so browsing the list is easy. You'll see the piece's title and who performed it.
Pixabay is known mainly for their collection of public domain images and free videos, but they also have free sound effects and free public domain music. You can listen online to get a feel for what the tracks sound like, and then download anything you want in one click.
The list can be sorted by track duration, genre (e.g., ambient, electronic), mood (dreamy, uplifting, etc.), movement (smooth, elegant, fast, and others), and theme (like Film Music or Music for YouTube Videos). However, we were unable to get those filters to actually show any results.
Download free music tracks for any project without attribution or copyright issues. Browse various genres and moods of royalty free music on Pixabay.
Musopen is a non-profit organization that provides free music recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public, without copyright restrictions. You can browse, listen, download, or print public domain music and educational resources from their website or app.
Free Music Archive offers free access to original music and creators for various media projects. You can browse by genre, artist, or mix, or listen to the podcast series Music Insiders by FMA.
Public domain music is music to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. [1] Background. The length of copyright protection varies from country to country, but music, along with most other creative works, generally enters the public domain 50 to 75 years after the death of the creator. [citation needed] .
