These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of a different time. Learn more about The Bicentennial Music Celebration. The band music from the 1975 JCPenney Bicentennial Musical Celebration is now available on BandMusic PDF Library. Now available for download, complete with scores. Music of Vaughan Williamsįolk Song Suite and Sea Songs (1924) are newly in the public domain in 2020. If you have works for band published in 1925 (or earlier) that you are willing to scan and share, please contact us. Now that the Public Domain is expanding, we will expand our range each year, too. From its beginning BandMusic PDF Library has been limited to works published in the United States up to 1922.

Starting with 2019, the cutoff date for public domain music will advance one year each Jan. Our list of Suggested Marches has been revised by Marcus Neiman to include some of the best of our recently added pieces. We have been encouraging band directors, music librarians and others to share their suggestions for Golden Age band music that is fun to play and pleasing to audiences. Please sign up for our email list below, and we’ll keep you up to date on the Library’s progress. There are many ways, large and small, that you can participate in building the Library. And, help others by alerting us to titles we should add to our Favorites lists.Ĭheck out the How You Can Help page. Let us know when your band performs music from the Library. We’re always glad to hear you’re using the music. Finding Music–A guide to searching the library.As we continue to improve our catalog to help you find what you are looking for, please let us know how we can improve. In this fourth edition of the web site we are trying to make the Library fit more comfortably on small devices and improve the search. It’s this spirit of generosity that is making this heritage project truly “The band library for musicians, by musicians!” Friends of the library send missing pages, and volunteers create transposed parts for modern bands. We continue to scan old music–we post both old and new editions each month. Thanks to the band community the Library continues to grow. If you are looking for public domain music to play with your school band, community band or other group, you’ll find it here–marches, waltzes, rags, theater music, cornet solos, trombone features, and much more. BandMusic PDF Library preserves and shares band music from the Golden Age of the American Town Band.

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