Research Guides: #Music & Music Appreciation: Scores & Sheet Music

Scores & Sheet Music

Art Song Central
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire. IPA transcriptions are now available for every German, French, Italian and Latin song in the index.
Digital Scores and Libretti
Loeb Music Library's digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching.
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This digital collection includes manuscripts, first editions, and early editions of music from the 17th to the early 20th century. Many items, such as variant editions and annotated proofs of 19th-century operas and related libretti, are meant to be seen and used together. As a group, they give scholars a window into the study of historical performance practice.
Juilliard Collection of Digital Scores: Public Domain
Free collections of public domain resources from libraries and archives around the world.
IMSLP Music Library
The International Music Score Library Project shares public domain scores.
Choral Public Domain Library
Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
Opera Folio: Libretti
This page contains 1051 links to the libretti (original and translations) of 512 operas.
Library of Congress Notated Music Collection
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection (John Hopkins)
Browse over 30,000 pieces of American popular music, dating as far back as 1780.
Music Library Digital Scores Collection (University of Washington)
The Music Library Digital Scores Collection contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music.
American Choral Music
The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. The music selected reflects the diversity of choral music in the collections written during the later nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and includes accompanied music, a cappella, sacred and secular music, and works for mixed choirs, for women's and men's ensembles, and for children's choruses.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 1885
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.
Museum of the City of New York George M. Cohan (1878-1942) Collection
Over 400 scripts, scores, and sheet music by George M. Cohan (1878-1942), one of the 20th century’s most prolific theatrical artists.
Musopen: Sheet Music
This page allows you to browse our sheet music by composer, instrument, form and time period. Download for free or save for later.

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