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Links to Sites Offering free Recorder Music

NOTE: Most of these sites offer music as PDF files, which will require that you have Adobe Reader to view. Adobe Reader is free and is available at www.adobe.com. Click on the link "Get Adobe Reader." Some of the sites also offer MIDI files, which let you hear the music but which require a music editor, such as "Finale" or "Sibelius" to turn the MIDI file into printed music notation.

Werner Icking Music Archive
(This is the biggest and best site. Thousands of pieces are available (not all for recorder). Contributions to the archive are vetted, so the quality of the editions is high.

Peter Billam's Arrangements
(Bach arrangements and more)

The Choral Public Domain Library

SCA Dance Database Search Engine

Steve Hendrick's Music Collection

Recorder music maintained by Christian and Annette Mondrup (Start with the great edition of the trios Opus 7 for 3 alto recorders by Boismortier)

LoveSchubert Recorder Music

Archiv der Kreuznacher
(Lower quality editions, often unidentified. Lots of Boismortier duets arranged for 2 C recorders.)

Sesquialtera Music
(Compiled by Portland Recorder Society member Sean Nolan)

Photo by Bill Stickney