About Sheet Music International

USA. Works published before 1923 are public domain. Copyright lasts for life of composer + 70 years Canada, Japan, China, New Zealand, South Africa: Copyright lasts for life of composer + 50 years.

Sheet Music International is a public repository that serves as a collection agency with servers in Canada and the United States. We assume no liability or responsibility for downloading or uploading files not in public domain in your country. Please respect copyright laws in your country.

The free sheet music listed on this website is public domain sheet music. It is a comprehensive library of works for violin. You will find many compositions not on the repertoire list by browsing the music folders directly. We suggest you start with the reknown composer library as it contains the sheet music that is most often performed. All of the violin music on this website is free violin sheet music.

There are free downloadable scores for most works available as well.

Some of the most popular and famous music for young violinists are these four works.

We believe you will find Sheet Music International to be the best sheet music site online. Our website is user friendly. Our violin sheet music is easy to find with few clicks. There is no popups, no adds or frills. We just have free classical sheet music for all instruments including violin.

About This Website:
We offer free sheet music to the public. SMI is a free classical music library containing downloadable free public domain music. There are six public libraries on this website you can browse and two search engines.

Search Engine:
There are two search engines provided on this website. The first one is Composers, and the second one is Compositions.

To locate a work using the search engine by composer try entering the last name of the composer in the search box. It is usually best to enter less. In other words if you are looking for Beethoven it's best to enter just Beethoven, not Ludwig Von Beethoven, or Ludwig Beethoven or Beethoven Ludwig Von etc.

The more information you enter the narrower a search gets and the system will often not find a work if you require too many words to be an exact match in your search.

To locate a work by title that you may not know the composer of enter the name into the composition box. Again if you want to find Beethoven Symphony 3 The Eroica. You will probably have the best results if you just enter the word Eroica.

Reknown Composers:
This is the most popular library. Here you will find the complete works of masters like Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, and Mozart. It is filed alphabetically by the composers last name. There are sub folders under each composer containing music in various formats such as symphonies, concertos, etc. and folders listing works for a particular instrument.

Under Beethoven for example folders for several catetofies of music. There is a folder labeled viola. It contains a list of downloadable viola sheet music. There is also a category labeled Duets that lists violin duets sheet music. along with duets for other combinations of instruments. The Piano category is broken down into different types of piano music including, Dances Minuets, Sonatas, Waltzs etc. You will find famous works here like Fun Elise sheet music to the Moonlight Sonata.

The Reknown Composers library also contains a folder labeled Hymns (Greatest of Traditional and other Hymns) Here you will find some of the greatest hymns used by churches throughout the ages. This list is also included in the All composers library under their more massive listing.

All Composers:
The All Composer library contains music by all composers including the reknown composers. It is a more extensive library but will take more time to browse. This library also contains a library of Hymns with pages of text that can easily be projected on large screens along with church sheet music. Many of these hymn folders also contain the hymn text set to alternate tunes. Meter is provided in the format of 6.6.8.6 etc. The meter can be entered into the composition search box to return a list of tunes comparable with that text. This is a free classical music library.

Church Music and Hymns:
The Hymn and church music page is an index that sorts music commonly used by churches including hymns, cantatas, oratorios along with music for Doxologies, Canticles, Mass etc. The first column columns categorize music used for different parts of the church year. The second column indexes music by topics such as ascension, baptism, worship and praise etc.

Categories on in this table are helpful to locate appropriate music, but is by no means complete. There are many more hymns for each category contained in the library. You may browse the hymn folders by Hymn Name. Many hymns, take A Mighty Fortress is Our God for example, contain custom text below the folder providing information like Easter, Epiphany, transfiguration sunday, worship and Praise 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 This is helpful when trying to locate music for a particular service or occasion.

You will find Methodist Hymns, Catholic Hymns, Lutheran Hymns as well as hymns used in other denominations.

School Music:
The School Music Library contains compositions and musical arrangements listed by level of difficulty and ensemble. There is sheet music for Band, Full Orchestra, Strings, and stage band along with some method books that may be used for classroom in individual instruction.

Personal Library:
The personal library is one of the most useful tools for users. You can bookmark any particular arrangement or music for quick reference at a later time to your personal library. You may also upload complete works, or parts you may have edited to these folders.

To share music from your library with other people it is best to use the Temporary performance Tab. You may copy any works in your personal library to the temporary performance tab and share them on a temporary basis only. That is very useful if you make a folder for a particular concert and want to include music that you own that is not in the public domain libraries. With one click, you can share the music for an entire concert, then when the concert is over delete it from your temporary tab and people lose access to any of the music you shared that is not in the public library.

Repertoire:
The Repertoire tab at the top of the page is not so much a library as it is a list of suggested music. These are hand generated lists of music that is standard literature for a particular instrument. You will find each list is formatted uniquely as it was prepared by the editor.

The violin repertoire list for example is indexed for violin solos (acapella), violin and Piano, Violin concertos, Violin Duets, Violin and Orchestra, and studies, exercises, etudes, and scales. There is also a table of music listed in order of difficulty which may help teachers select works for students. Below that is a more extensive list of works by composers that are in the main violin repertoire.

Again this list is by no means a complete list of works for a particular instrument that may be found in this library. If you don't find what you need, try browsing the folders of individual composer.

IMSLP, the International music Score Library Project hosts a large amount of sheet music as well.