American Memory Project: Performing Arts, Music
American Memory Project: Performing Arts, Music (Library of Congress)
Free and open access to Library of Congress music collections.
Freely Available Collections
Freely available collections
Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores
View works from the B&H catalogue in digital format.
Carl Nielsen Edition
The Royal Library: National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library. Free downloads of music scores of all Carl Nielsen’s works provided by the Danish Centre for Music Publication (DCM).
Choral Public Doman Library
Choral Public Doman Library (ChoralWiki)
Hosts thousands of free scores of choral and vocal works for unrestricted downloading.
Corpus Christi Watershed
Provides liturgical music and Gregorian chant books online.
Digital Scores & Libretti
Harvard University Loeb Music Library. Includes first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
Historic American Sheet Music
Historic American Sheet Music (1850-1920)
Compiled by Duke University Libraries, this collections provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
International Music Score Library Project. Strives to comply with Canadian copyright laws. Incorporates the former Werner Icking Music Archive.
Indiana University VARIATIONS prototype
Includes online scores for Opera Literature, Song Literature, Orchestral and Choral Literature, Chamber Music Literature, Piano Literature, and Solo Instrumental Literature.
Julliard Manuscript Collection
An extraordinary collection of 140 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions, which were donated to the school in February 2006 by Julliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner.
Morgan Library & Museum
Provides access to digitized versions of more than 500 music manuscripts. Works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, and Schumann, among many others, can be viewed on these pages.
MusOpen
Mutopia
New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
New York Philharmonic Digital Archives (1842-present)
The New York Philharmonic received a $2.4 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to complete the digitization of its extensive Archives, beginning with its founding in 1842 through the present day.
NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use.
Sheet Music Consortium
Provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.