Free Guitar Scores Download Archive
A personal selection of favourite pieces of guitar music presented by the Biebertal Guitar School, Germany
This archive forms part of the internet site of a small guitar school based in the heart of Germany. I started this project since I believe that older musical compositions form part of humanity's cultural heritage and should be freely accessible to all (at least after the composers' and their rightful successors' copyright has ended). Most of the pieces can be downloaded for free, but you'll also find some material, downloadable after paying a small fee via PayPal. This helps me to keep my own costs for server, hosting... low. All works included are carefully selected and geared to the needs of guitar students and teachers around the world.
Most of the free scores are given without fingerings. While this also means less work for me as the publisher, the second reason for presenting the scores in this fashion is that I feel that finding your own fingering forms a major part of studying and working on a piece of music. Naturally, this will work best if you have a teacher to whom you can refer to discuss your fingering solutions for any special passages.
The pieces downloadable for a fee do have the most important fingerings included. While this goes somewhat against my convictions, I do know that most students prefer walking a pre-prepared path, and it does save some time. :-)
There are 5 ways to search the Biebertal Guitar School musical scores archive (using the navigation links in the menu on the left):
1. By looking for a specific composer (COMPOSER)
2. By looking for something fitting your instrumental skills (INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS)
3. By searching for works written for different types of ensembles (ENSEMBLE)
4. By searching for collections of pieces (COLLECTIONS)
5. And for repeat visitors, the menu point NEW offers fast access to recently added scores.
All of the scores are presented in two different file types:
midi format
(some in mp3 format) and pdf format
To open and print the downloaded pdf files, you'll need Adobe Reader (probably pre-installed on your PC). In case it isn't: download it by clicking on the following button (it's freeware).
Please pay attention to the following download instructions (if needed):
1. Click on the link (pdf or mid) with your right mouse button, choose: 'save as ...' from the menu and select where to store the file.
If you'd just like to listen to the midi file before downloading, right click on the midi button and choose: 'open in a new window'.
(Please contact me (webmaster) if you discover broken links. Thanks!)