Classical music out of copyright

sad iron · Post by **sad iron** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:49 am

I'm looking for some classical music to sample for a record I'm working on. Hoping to find stuff out of copyright so I don't have to worry about all that hassle. I've looked around and haven't been able to find anything besides a bunch of old records in my collection, but I don't have a turntable these days. Anyone know of anywhere on the Web I might look?

b3groover · Post by **b3groover** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:55 am

The composition itself may be out of copyright, but the performance probably isn't, so watch out.

sad iron · Post by **sad iron** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:01 am

b3groover wrote:The composition itself may be out of copyright, but the performance probably isn't, so watch out.

Yeah, I'm looking specifically for out of copyright performances.

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:03 pm

http://www.musopen.com/music.php might be useful. I've never scoured around there but it looks like it's all pre-screened to be public domain recordings.

The Scum · Post by **The Scum** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:23 pm

If you can deal with Creative Commons licensing instead, check out:
http://www.podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/ind ... =Classical

cutsnake · Post by **cutsnake** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:59 am

And don't forget archive.org.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:16 am

podsafe makes me puke.

aitikin · Post by **aitikin** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:42 am

http://78records.cdbpdx.com/

Might help. Really cool stuff that that guy's doing, but some of it is a little...racy for the modern audience.

An article about it can be found here:

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/one-mans-quest.html

wedge · Post by **wedge** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:34 pm

cutsnake wrote:And don't forget archive.org.

Is all this stuff copyright free? How do you tell? I ain't catchin' on too quick-like...

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