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Please <a href="/Definition/Unstable" title="Definition/Unstable">help updating it</a>, contribute <a href="/Translations" title="Translations">translations</a>, and help us with the design of <a href="/Logos_and_buttons" title="Logos and buttons">logos and buttons</a> to identify free cultural works and licenses!</b> </p></div></div></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Portal</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Music</span></h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body"> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Definition of Free Cultural Works</div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="contentSub2"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav"></div> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Recorded_audio">Recorded audio</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/index.php?title=Portal:Music&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Recorded audio">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>drew Roberts has some spoken word works under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. </p><p>They can be found here: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28creator%3A%22drew%20Roberts%22%29%20OR%20%28collection%3A%28ourmedia%29%20AND%20%2Fmetadata%2Fauthor%3A%28drew%20Roberts%29%29">some of drew's stuff</a> </p><p>Some people have made some music using some of these - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://musicians.opensrc.org/DrewRoberts">look here for the music.</a> </p><p>Loca Records releases all music on the label as CC-BY-SA (though there are some older works that are EFF Open Audio and GPL'd). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.locarecords.com">Loca Records Website</a> </p><p>The quick way into their downloads is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.locarecords.com/music">Loca Music as MP3/Ogg</a> </p><p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://freepd.com/">FreePD.com</a> is a website by Kevin Macleod containing musical tracks by him and others, all licensed under CC0 (public domain). </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Scores_and_resources">Scores and resources</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/index.php?title=Portal:Music&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Scores and resources">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cpdl.org">Choral Public Domain Library</a> is a great resource for choral scores, texts, and translations, in a variety of formats. </p><p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mutopiaproject.org/">Mutopia Project</a> contains classical scores under the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA license as well as public domain. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sharing_of_free_audio">Sharing of free audio</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/index.php?title=Portal:Music&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sharing of free audio">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.theorasea.org/">Theora Sea</a> for works in open media. Also includes Free Cultural Works.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redpanal.org/">RedPanal.org</a> Online community/Social Network about Collaborative Music & Collective Musical Creation. Free CC-by-2.5(Ar.) licensed audio recordings and free Cultural Works.</li></ul> <p>(in spanish). </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jamendo.com">Jamendo.com</a> is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. Available in seven languages, it offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it's an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships.</li></ul>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://freedomdefined.org/index.php?title=Portal:Music&oldid=24540">https://freedomdefined.org/index.php?title=Portal:Music&oldid=24540</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anonuserpage" class="mw-list-item"><span title="The user 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