Here are a few things that might be of interest to some people. Contents of this page are copyleft.

Free Sheet Music

If you like classical guitar, you might like these scores. Feel free to download, print, and distribute them in printed or PDF form, to perform them, and to create derivative works as long as there are no apparent copyright problems. The idea is to get great music to as many people as possible, so let the music flow! Note that these arrangements are “copyleft.”
 

• “Fine Knacks for Ladies,” an instrumental version of a song published in 1600 by the English lutenist and composer John Dowland. I have written in “violin” for the melody line, but any other appropriate instrument may be substituted (same for the other duet pieces). The guitar accompaniment loosely borrows from Dowland's original lute accompaniment. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” a hymn composed by John B. Dykes (1823-1876), arranged for guitar solo. Also known as the “Navy Hymn,” this is the hymn that people are singing in the chapel in the movie Titanic. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “Jupiter”  from Gustav Holst’s Planets. Melody line with guitar accompaniment. [MIDI] [PDF]
• Theme from the second movement of Haydn’s “Emperor” string quartet, for guitar solo. This is one of those classical tunes that you can’t get out of your head. The original key of G major is no problem for the guitar, but it’s a little low, so I transposed it to C major. I arranged this using Haydn’s score, which is found at Mutopia. [PDF] [MIDI]
• Theme from the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11, K.V. 331, for guitar solo. In the original key of A major it falls so naturally on the guitar that it’s almost as if Mozart had the guitar in mind when he composed this theme. [MIDI] [PDF]
• Japanese children’s song “Momiji” (“Colored Leaves”) arranged for guitar solo. [MIDI] [PDF]
• J. S. Bach's “Air” (popularly known as “Air on a G String”) from the Third Orchestral Suite, BWV 1068. This is an arrangement for violin (or other suitable instrument) and guitar. The violin plays the 1st violin part of the original, and the guitar combines the other three parts (2nd violin, viola, and continuo). The guitar part is not as challenging as one might think, and it works well in the original key of D major. [MIDI] [PDF]
  
• Christmas song: “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem,” for guitar solo. [MIDI] [PDF]
• Christmas song: “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” for guitar solo. [MIDI] [PDF]
• Christmas song: “Joy to the World,” for guitar solo [MIDI] [PDF]
• “Planxty Madam Maxwell,” by Turlough O'Carolan, for guitar solo. A real foot-stomper. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “O mio babbino caro,” an opera classic by Puccini, arranged for flute (or other suitable instrument) and guitar. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “March,” BWV anh. 124, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. One of the pieces from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach. For guitar solo. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “Ave Maria,” by Jacob Arcadelt, 1505-1568 (Adaptation by Louis Dietsch, 1808-1865). The original is SATB. This arrangement, for violin (or other suitable instrument) and guitar, assigns the soprano part to the violin, and the other three parts to the guitar. This is healing music. Just sit back and revel in those Renaissance harmonies. [MIDI] [PDF]
• “Oborozukiyo,” a well-known Japanese song, arranged for guitar solo. [MIDI] [PDF]
  

More to come...

Chinese Forteana

If you like stories about ghosts, transformations, bloodsucking demons, wizards, and other strange, scary, and delightful things, you'll enjoy these stories which I have translated from the classical Chinese. Because these translations are just for enjoyment, they have no scholarly apparatus, and I have simplified in a few places to avoid literally translating things that would then require explanatory footnotes. These translations are copyleft.

Chinese Forteana
Note: In the future another version of the file including the Chinese originals will be posted.

In the meantime, here is a well-known humorous story called “I’m Afraid of Steamed Dumplings” from a different collection.

[English only]  [English with Chinese original UTF-8]