Help:Add Music

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Before submitting a score, please read the score submission guide.
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This is especially recommended if you are a new user.

This page is for people who would like to add scores or other information to CPDL. The "add work" form will create formatted pages, so that people who do not know "wiki formatting" can add information. The other processes will require you to follow the instructions from the various pages. It is still possible to add or edit pages directly, but only if you are a registered user. Here are the options (only 3 are available now, the others will be added as time permits).


PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETE THE "ADD WORKS" FORM MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE SAME EDITION. Once you have submitted the form, a unique CPDL number is generated which becomes obsolete if the form is run a second time for the same edition. Volunteers will receive the form which you submitted and post it on the wiki in due course - please be patient. If you forgot to include some information in the form the first time you submitted it, please email addscore (at) cpdl.org with the details rather than submitting the form again. Thank you.


  • Add Composer (follow the instructions)
  • Add Choral Work, or New Edition
  • Update my already posted edition
  • Add Contributor Page (not available yet)
  • Add Free Website (not available yet)
  • Add Choir information (not available yet)
  • Add a Collection of works, Songbook or Hymnal in PDF format (not available yet)
  • Add a page idenitifying a published collection of choral works, or a "large work", (Cantata, Oratorio, &c), including title, composer, editor (if any), lyricist or source of text, publisher, date and place of publication, and contents (not available yet)

Add Composer

Since CPDL is primarily a free sheet music website, only public domain works and works by living composers which have been released with an appropriate license are suitable for inclusion. To learn more about when music enters the public domain, see this help page. If you add composers who have no works available in the public domain or have not released their works to the public, they will be categorised as "unhosted". Please check to make sure that a composer page does not already exist on this website for the work you are donating. If you need to add the composer of your work, please follow the instructions on the score submission guide. If you have difficulties completing this process, leave a message on the CPDL forums and someone will create the page for you.

Add Choral Work

Before beginning to submit your music to CPDL there are three questions which need to be answered:

  1. Are the music files already on a remote website, or do you wish to host them on the CPDL site? (The preference is for scores to be uploaded to the CPDL server so as to avoid broken links in the future.)
    • If your scores are already available on a website, you can skip this step. If you wish to upload the file(s) to the CPDL server, click here. You must be a registered user to upload files. Don't stop after doing just this step. Without doing step(s) 2-3 below any uploaded files will just be discarded in a day or two unless they correspond to links filled into the "add new work" form. You should click on "Add Choral Work or new edition" link AFTER uploading your PDF, MIDI, and (optional) notation file, and put your uploaded file URLs into appropriate boxes on the form.
  2. Is the composer of your uploaded works listed on CPDL already? If yes, skip to the next step below.
    • If not, you will need to create the composer page. (see "Add Composer" section above)
  3. Is the choral work by this composer already listed on CPDL?
  4. Want more detailed instructions for adding your new score to CPDL? Use the score submission guide.