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Tags: <sheet-music>
Title: Where can I find music notes for classical guitar and lute online?
Question: Possible Duplicate:  Sites with a good selection of sheet music     Occasionally, I search for music notes online, e.g. for pieces by Sor, Dowland, Bach and others. Are there some good resources for musical notes (or tabs)? I am interested in classical guitar and lute compositions.  I have seen this question ( What is the legality of online tabulature? ) and agree with the shadowy (and often ad-cluttered) ambiance of some of these sites. Are there some legal, maybe even well-organized, too?

Answers:
sents: text: You need to specifically be searching for '"sheet music" piece name', not musical notes.
text: Some pieces by Sor and Bach can be found here http://classicalguitar.homeip.net/Sheetmusic.htm
text: This was the first link from the Google search "sheet music classical guitar"
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/149/Bella
score: 6
sents: text: Please pay for them and stick with the masters:
text: Andres Segovia: http://www.amazon.com/Andres-Segovia-Studies-Guitar-Transcribed/dp/0793504368
text: Paco DeLucia: http://www.amazon.com/Scores-Fuente-Caudal-Visual-Spanish/dp/0786675063 Julian Bream: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/s?q=Julian+Bream
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/None/
score: 3
sents: text: What is probably the largest online collection of lute music in the world is at http://gerbode.net/ (and mirrors).
text: There are currently more than 3,000 pieces available (actually, I think it may be closer to 4,000 by now), many in several different arrangements.
text: All of them are available in Fronimo file format, and most of them are also available in TAB, PDF, and MIDI.
text: You mentioned Dowland.
text: A quick glance shows more than 100 pieces by him alone.
text: There are 588 Fronimo files under his directory, including separated parts for SATB singers.
text: The collection is entirely free -- both in price and in copyright.
text: All of the pieces are transcriptions by Sarge Gerbode, either from the originals or scans of the originals made available to him by libraries.
text: This collection represents many years of work by him and it has been a labor of love.
text: I'm currently working with Sarge to put a much nicer front end on the collection and we hope to have the up and running by Summer, if not sooner.
text: Check out the site.
text: You can contact him at sarge@gerbode.net, or me at peter@techbuddy.us.
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/565/Peter Rowell
score: 3
sents: text: Have a look at International Music Score Library Project http://imslp.org/
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/245/Chiron
score: 2
sents: text: I answered this for a different question, but it might be useful here:
text: You can find a lot of music sheets on http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ Most of them are modern songs, or older music on modern instruments, but I also found a lot of classical guitar and lute pieces there.
text: Some of the files can only be viewed with proprietary software (like Guitar Pro) but there are free ones as well.
text: If you are interested in even older music which is even harder to find, you can find some medieval music (mostly for lute or for flute) here> http://www.terrasoft.hu/kultura/consort/kotta/
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/1944/vsz
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Music notes for classical guitar and lute can be found online at Andres Segovia: http://www.amazon.com/Andres-Segovia-Studies-Guitar-Transcribed/dp/0793504368  and Paco DeLucia: http://www.amazon.com/Scores-Fuente-Caudal-Visual-Spanish/dp/0786675063 and  Julian Bream:  http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/s?q=Julian+Bream.
The largest online collection of lute music can be found at http://gerbode.net. Also look at the International Music Score Library Project  http://imslp.org/. Some medieval music (mostly for lute or for flute) can be found on  http://www.terrasoft.hu/kultura/consort/kotta/. Some pieces by Sor and Bach can be found here  http://classicalguitar.homeip.net/Sheetmusic.htm  .  You can find a lot of music sheets on  http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/  Most of them are modern songs, or older music on modern instruments, but I also found a lot of classical guitar and lute pieces there. Suggestions for sheet music books include Andres Segovia: http://www.amazon.com/Andres-Segovia-Studies-Guitar-Transcribed/dp/0793504368  ; Paco DeLucia: http://www.amazon.com/Scores-Fuente-Caudal-Visual-Spanish/dp/0786675063; and  Julian Bream:  http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/s?q=Julian+Bream