Blough-Weis Library: Music Research Guide: Scores

General Scores Databases

Classical Scores Library, Volumes I-IV
The four "volumes" of the Classical Scores Library cover classical music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and include piano, vocal, solo, and full orchestral scores.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Provides over 200,000 free scores that are in the public domain.

Mutopia
Offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download.

Digitized Books

These links take you to large collections of digitized books online, including some of music and musicology. If you're looking for a book published before the 1920s, and it's not in our library, it's always worth checking these to see if someone has made it available online.

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

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Internet Archive: Books
Internet Archive describes itself as a "non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine."

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This link has been customized to take you to a search page that includes only books which are freely available in their entirety.
Europeana Collections
The Europeana website aggregates search results from numerous digitization projects at libraries, museums, and archives across Europe, with links to the digitized copies of early printed books, manuscripts, scores, and recordings.

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The Europeana website has several collections which limit the type of materials searched, including one focused on Music. Use this option to narrow your search results as needed.

Specialized Scores Databases

The Choral Public Domain Library
Collection of public domain scores with a focus on choral and voice scores.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Digital version of the complete works of Mozart - the Neuw Mozart-Ausgabe (New Mozart Edition).
Digital Scores & Libretti Collection
Digital manuscript copies of J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert, 19th century operas, and more.
Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music, Rochester)
Scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Lester S. Levy Collection of American Popular Music
Collection of American music organized into 38 categories, including patriotic, comic, military, and Civil War.

Historic American Sheet Music
Provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from collection of music published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
DIAMM : Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

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Music Research Guide: Scores

Scores in the Library

General Scores Databases

Digitized Books

Specialized Scores Databases

IMSLP Recently Added Scores