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Where have you gone, Choral Public Domain Library?

Was it something we said at the Sacred Music Colloquium that made you take your site down?  Or is that just a coincidence?  I'm sure Horst Buchholz was only kidding when he said that with the CPDL, you get what you more than what you pay for.  Though your free resource sometimes contains editions of sacred music with a note out of place here or there, it just keeps the maestros on their toes.  And for we who are just in awe of the musical prowess of people versed in theory and counterpoint, well, we probably won't know the difference anyway.

For two days I've been trying to access you, mainly to find translations to beautiful motets I found on Rhapsody and wonder when in the liturgical year they might be appropriate to sing.  Thank goodness for the Google cache, at least I could sometimes get to those.  But I cannot search your website, nor see your public domain choral scores... where have you gone cpdl.org?  I hope you come back soon.  The Assumption is nigh, and your page is not found.

Addendum 7/2/07: It's nice to have the right connections.  I asked Jeffrey Tucker of the St. Cecilia Schola and the Church Music Association if he knew why cpdl.org was down, and he pointed me to this link: www.choralwiki.org .  I'm downloading things to my computer I think I may want to use in the near future.  So many factors can prevent me from getting to the polyphonic score I need when I need it, I just can't take that chance!  (Does that make me a control freak?)

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