Welcome to Cantate Domino.
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The music provided on this site
The music on this website is intended to be good church and choral music. We hope to provide a growing collection of Anthems and Motets, Services and Settings, Hymns and Psalms, Organ and piano music, and a large selection of carols.
The site has tried to provide video and audio examples of music if they can be sourced, as well as providing performances of different arrangements. If you make a good quality recording, (Audio or Video) of any of the music on this site. We would love to consider putting your recording on the relevant page of this site either as an audio file or YouTube video. You will be given full credit for your audio or video. We have tried to find examples from all over the world.
There are four sections for music.
- Choral
- A section of music suitable for choirs, however there are some pieces for soloists.
- Hymns
- Some of the hymns have special arrangements and/or descants
- Carols
- This is a loose term. This section contain carols, hymns and other music generally associated with Christmas. This section includes some arrangements and descants.
- Organ
- There is a selection of various degrees of difficulty. There is a variety of both three stave and two stave compositions.
Each composition/arrangement has it’s own page. Polite interaction is invited in the comments section at the foot of each page. Please keep on topic for the music on the page. For general comments please use the guestbook.
Site Navigation
- Using the menu at the top will take you to an index in a chosen category of music.
- The hamburger menu at the top left will slide in a list of virtually every available page on the site.
- At the foot of the music pages is a list of other music in the current category
Unless otherwise stated the music (both scores and mp3 files) are copyrighted by Cantate Domino. Other contributors have their own copyright, and all copyrights, terms and conditions and usage of this site must be heeded, as well as any other instructions provided with them. Works here are both in the public domain, and by living composers. The latter is by permission. By using this site, you are deemed to have legally agreed unreservedly with the terms and conditions.
Web-sites are most welcome to link to web pages on this site where music can be found, but they must not "hot link" to the actual files or put our files on any other site or repository. Our files must only be hosted on this site.
Music on this site.
The music on this website is supplied free primarily for the Glory of God, and one of the purposes of this site is to provide music for churches where obtaining music may be a financial burden, or for areas of the world where music is difficult to obtain. Metadata shows that our music is particularly of value in Africa, Asia and South America.
Many of the arrangements and compositions provided here ARE NOT public domain, and should be treated as though you have paid for it. If you value any of the music provided please consider a donation towards the update of this site. (See the foot of the page). Operating this site is not without cost.
Copyright Infringement.
It is a shame that we have to include a paragraph such as this on our site, but unfortunately there are those who do not abide by our generous usage rules. It has come to our attention that some of our music (PDF and MP3s) are found on other sites without having sought permission. There is one company who has published in hard copy print one of our copyrighted works without our permission, they have removed the copyright notice, and have not compensated the composer in any way. It is our intention to contact all we find who, have unauthorised use of our files on their site or use our files in a file exchange program. We fully intend to name and shame those who do not remove our files from their site, ignore our request, or cannot be contacted.
Terms of Use
By using this site and any of the downloads, you are deemed to have agreed unreservedly to all the terms on every tab. If you do not agree, please exit the site. These terms supercede and replace any terms previously published and those on any of our former sites, which cantatedomino.org replaces. All works previously published on former sites have now been converted to canatedoino.org.
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