I found out about this via o'reilly radar's blog..
Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
The amount of music available is not too bad (and constantly improving):
Also, they have a growing collection of sheet music, eg:
Cite this blog post:
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2017
paper Using Linked Open Data to Bootstrap a Knowledge Base of Classical Texts
WHiSe 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic web (colocated with ISWC17), Vienna, Austria, Oct 2017.
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