Music
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Subcategories Album, Music Video
Wikidata Code Q638
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
Brad Sucks
a one man band with no fans
CCHits
Copying Is Not Theft
A song arguing that copyright violation is not theft.
Free Software Song
Josh Woodward
Josh Woodward writes and sings quirky acoustic rock.
Lorenzo's Music
‘Their sound is not unlike a band of swaggering Lotharios caught between yesteryear and today.’
Love Me Do
A Beatles classic that squeaked into the public domain just before the term was extended.
Open Goldberg Variations
A performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Rynothebearded
CC-licensed music, 24/7
Sharing Is Caring
A single - remixed multiple times - released by Dan Bull. #9 in the UK Independent chart.
All the Music LLC
We’ve created an application to generate by brute force all mathematically possible melodies and write them to MIDI files.
Ambush on All Sides
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Ancient Beast
Andrea si Sposa
A one-track album.
Antti Luode
Composer
Argofox
Royalty free music.
Audionautix
Free production music.
Aural Tradition
An album created as part of a copyright course.
Battle for Wesnoth
Commonly
A site to ransom CC0 game assets.
Credit Is Due
A song by Nina Paley about attribution.
Daniel Bautista
A musician.
Esperando el Tsunami
"Esperando el Tsunami (Waiting for the Tsunami) is a quest for the sounds and people of present-day Colombia, in a continuous improvisation by the filmmaker and musicians as we composed and created on the road."
Featurin.gs
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FreePD.com
A collection of 444 public domain songs
Horn Solos
This is a project to typeset public domain solos for the horn using lilypond. A kickstarter helped fund an initial printing.
I'm Fresh! You're Pretty!
Musicians.
Incompetech
Royalty-free music
International Music Score Library Project
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Interstate Medicine
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Jonathan Mann
Wrote a song a day; now over 6,000.
Jono Bacon
Man who is involved in Ubuntu community, also in a band.
Kassy Key & the Raindogs
A band.
Libre.fm
MMO
"Canadian rock guitarist/songwriter/producer Mike Olekshy fled his homeland in 2005 to attend music college and play guitar with various artists around Los Angeles, CA. His alter-ego MMO has just released a brand new EP "Drunk Dial Of The Year" - a collection of guitar-driven rock that blurs the lines between pop and metal -- complete with quirky lyrics and catchy melodies." https://archive.org/details/jamendo-048807
Mike Shaw
A mashup musician.
Musescore
Hosts the sources of the Open Goldberg Variations edition
Musopen
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed... - Beethoven
Musopen Collection
Music files from Musopen.
New Me!
"New Me! is 10 original pieces for solo piano"
New Midnight Cassette System
New Midnight Cassette System is 55 hours of public domain music you can use any way you want, with no strings attached.
Open Music Archive
Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive distributes these recordings freely, forms a site of exchange, and is a vehicle for future collaborations and distributed projects.
Open Music Theory
"This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom."
Opsound
A collection of copyleft songs.
Orphan Songs (album)
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Pulse of the Earth
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Rathole Radio
Rathole Radio is a fortnightly Internet radio show featuring the best in new music from around the web, with occasional interviews and exclusive live performances to boot.
Right To Music
A free, fair, independent music advocacy group.
Schematic
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Season Of Gratitude
Christmas songs from ccMixter.
Severed Fifth
A band.
Subaqueous
"Subaqueous is a solo music project of Isaac Cotec. The music has incorporated beat science to create progressive mid tempo and dance music."
TeknoAXE
Royalty free music in a variety of genres.
The Infinite Voyager
"The Voyager 1 is the first humanmade spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Flying with it is the Golden Record, a documentation of the sounds of Earth. Listen."
The Libre Art of the Fugue
A new free recording of Bach's final masterpiece, played by pianist Kimiko Ishizaka. Concerts in the Elbphilharmonie and Carnegie Hall.
The New Birthday Song Contest
'WFMU and the Free Music Archive challenged songwriters everywhere to unseat “Happy Birthday to You” from it’s cultural throne by composing possible replacements. Here are the winners.'
The Open Game Art Bundle
''We're the people behind some of the most popular web games. The web is meant to be an open landscape; being in this bundle is how we choose to honor this.''
The Open Well-Tempered Clavier
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The Saturn Return
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The Transmogrification of Mr. Claus
Musical/spoken word album by Kouns & Weaver.
WATT
Watt explores the economic, technology, culture, and health issues facing musicians.
Wikipedia Chanukah
JoCo''s only free/libre/open song.
Wikipedia Sound List
This is an incomplete list of full length free content musical works available on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, with special emphasis on works that are (or should be) linked in Wikipedia articles. (Mainly classical music)
Zero Project
A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.
ccMixter
ccMixter is a site for Creative Commons remixes. You can listen to the music, but also sample and mash-up it.
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
All Day
A mashup album.
Amanda Palmer
A musician.
An End Like This
A 'best of' for Learning Music Monthly.
Awesome Gamedev
A curated list of good stuff related to the development of games. This list contains only free software for code, sellers who aren't evil for physical resources, and free cultural works for assets.
Bad Panda Records
Weekly music.
Balloon Suite
Music for the computer game Balloon Diaspora.
Bandcamp
Creative Commons-licensed albums.
Cctrax
A collection of CC albums.
Diffuser Net
A collection of works under various licenses.
Disasteradio
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Dublabs CC10 Mix
An hour of music created for CC's 10th birthday.
Free Music Archive
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Free Music Sampler
36 songs under Creative Commons licenses.
Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails' album of 36 songs.
Halfway Pleased
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Holiday Songs
Songs by Curt Smith of Tears for Fears.
It Happened Today
A song from REM.
Jamendo
Formerly a website that only hosted Creative Commons songs. Open-licensed songs have been preserved on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@jamendo_archive
Jonathan Coulton's website
A kooky and popular musician.
Kimiko Ishizaka
Classical pianist.
Learning Music Monthly
A now-finished project to create an album each month for three years.
Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
A Paul Simon song released as common content.
Magnatune
Songs.
Mashup Breakdown
A visual demonstration of the samples used by Girl Talk.
Mixotic
Net mixes.
Nighty Night
"On April 25th 2011, [8in8] entered Mad Oak Studios hoping to write and record eight songs in eight hours - webcasting the entire writing and recording process."
No Rock Solo
A Spanish language music blog-magazine.
Pondlife Fiasco
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Quote Unquote Records
A donations-based music label.
Records On Ribs
"Records on Ribs is a record label. We give away all our music for free download under a Creative Commons license. We also provide beautifully made and fairly priced physical releases."
Shaking the Habitual
"Performed, recorded and produced by The Knife in Stockholm and Berlin 2010-2012."
Soundcloud
A music site.
The Slip
An album from Nine Inch Nails.
The Wired CD
Theatre Is Evil
'Theatre Is Evil is a studio album by Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra produced by John Congleton.'
Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
Free culture that has been chosen by the Ubuntu community.
White Kids Aren't Hyphy
MC Lars song made available for remix.