Choral Public Domain Library

What happened to the 30 scores that used to be at the link...

http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Barbershops

Now it just goes to the home page. A word search for Barbershop only produces 5 english barbershop quartet songs...

http://choralwiki.net/wiki/index.php/Barbershop

Are there any other sources of PD Barbershop music arrangements and compositions (the arrangements PD too)?

Michael

Hi Michael

When CPDL moved to a new web server, we had to use a different domain name (choralwiki.net rather than cpdl.org). The result of this was that any bookmarks or links from other sites that still point to cpdl.org would bring up the old, slow wiki. So, our IT team made a redirect from cpdl.org to choralwiki.net. Unfortunately, the redirect isn't quite clever enough to go from <http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Barbershops> to <http://www.choralwiki.net/wiki/index.ph ... arbershops>, instead it takes you to the Main Page at choralwiki.net (as you have discovered). We hope to eventually return to the cpdl.org domain name.

As for your query about the "Babershops" category, I think I've found the problem - several score pages were incorrectly categorised as "Barbershop" as opposed to "Barbershops" (the wiki software is very picky about this kind of thing!) I've fixed this so there are now 36 scores listed under <http://www.choralwiki.net/wiki/index.ph ... arbershops> which I hope are of some use to you. If not, I'm sure someone else will be able to find some PD or licensed-as-PD scores for you.

Rob

That did it, thanks!