Scores and Sheet Music: Digital and Print

"American Choral Music, a collaboration of the the Library of Congress and the American Choral Directors Association, provides access to significant choral music in the public domain by the leading American composers of the time."

The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center. Users can search or browse Chopin Early Editions via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers.

Free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information. CPDL hosts free scores of more than 23,000 choral and vocal works by more than 2,700 composers.

Full-text scans of scores in the public domain, some with recordings. Wiki-based, so lots of useful repertoire, but scanning quality varies, some unconventional title or genre designations may appear.

The DME will provide world wide access to the complete works of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791) in digital form via the internet for study and performance purposes. In addition to the presentation of all works of music online, the DME will include a critical edition of letters, documents and libretti as well.

Contains unique music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures from the museum's and library's collections of the Beethoven-Haus.

Bach digital is a large, detailed, powerful database – and a reliable tool for exploring the constantly updated research findings on Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in his family. Bach digital provides complete, high-resolution scans of compositions (including 90 per cent of J.S. Bach’s works).

Library of Congress digital collection. Chronologically, these rare primary sources span a period of great paleographical change from the tenth through seventeenth centuries: from poorly executed fragments to exquisitely crafted codices, these materials range in format and size from single leaves to entire books – both pocket-sized and immense choirbooks measuring over three feet tall.

Published by the UCLA Music Library in eScholarship, the Contemporary Music Score Collection includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

Provides searching acriss 22 sheet music collections, including UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Library of Congress, and a total of 226,914 items.

The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. Particular strengths within UCLA Music Library's twentieth-century holdings include music for the theater, motion pictures, radio and television, as well as general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs. Provides access to digital versions of the sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain.

A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music from eleven locations have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated.

The Center's collection of sheet music includes items from the late-18th century to the present. Approximately 110,000 items have been cataloged and are searchable online. No online images, but researchers who are not able to visit the Center in person may make inquiries by telephone, letter or e-mail. Research assistance and reproduction services are available.

The Templeton Digital Collections include over 20,000 pieces of sheet music as well as images of music players and an inventory of recordings from the Museum. A large portion of these pieces are in the public domain (not copyrighted) and are available for download directly from the site. Some restricted titles are available upon request.

Provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. From Duke University Libraries Digital Collections.

IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana is a search and discovery system for accessing sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society, including the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music. IN Harmony features Indiana-related sheet music - sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists or publishers as well as sheet music about the state.

This sheet music collection consists of popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art. The collection contains approximately 50 pieces of sheet music owned by the Lewis Music Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, this collection contains over 29,000 pieces of popular American music spanning the period 1780-1980. Indexed by subject, composer and publisher. An image of the cover and each page of music is available if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.

Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. This specific collection consists of music by and relating to African Americans, from the 1820s to the present day

From the Library of Congress, more than 16,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1880 and 1922, taken from musicals, revues and operettas primarily of the American and British stage. They are arranged for piano and voice, sometimes simultaneously in arrangements for lower and higher voice.