LibGuides: Music Scores and Sheet Music: Scores Available Online

General Score Collections

Choral Public Domain Library
A wiki providing access to more than 12,000 choral works in the public domain. Allows browsing by genre, voicing, language, and composer nationality. Be aware that the scores here have been re-set using music notation software, often with no attribution to the original source.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London)
A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts dating from about 800 to 1550, not including plainchant. Includes detailed information for all the known sources of European polyphonic music and high-quality color images of some manuscripts.
Early Music Online (Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library and JISC)
Provides digital copies of about 300 16th-century anthologies of printed music. The volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions, consisting mainly of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also including some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. Includes music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
A virtual library created, based on the wiki principle, to gather public domain music scores as well as music scores of contemporary composers who wish to grant free access to their works. IMSLP provides access to a large array of public domain music scores. Over 6,500 composers are represented, and multiple editions, arrangements, and parts are available for some works.
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
Provides digitized images of this collection’s 138 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs, and first editions. Includes works by Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Copland, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, and others.
Music Manuscripts Online (The Morgan Library & Museum)
Provides digitized images of manuscripts from this library. Includes works by Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Faure, Mahler, Mozart, Schumann, and others.
Open Music Library Open Music Library brings together music scores from the world’s digital collections as well as peer-reviewed journal articles and books.
Score Exchange Score Exchange offers thousands of sheet music scores for download for every instrumentation imaginable - from solo pieces to works for full orchestra, from classical to pop. Preview and purchase downloads of sheet music on a variety of systems and devices
University of North Texas: Virtual Music Rare Book Room
Among other treasures, includes rare 17th- and 18th-century scores (manuscripts & early editions) of operas and ballets by Lully and his sons.
UR Research (University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music - Sibley Music Library)
Includes public domain scores and books, many of which are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.

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Search scores available from library catalogs across across the world. On the search screen, limit your format to Music Scores and search by keyword

*WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries near your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many kinds of digital content.

*This edition of WorldCat, provided through OCLC FirstSearch, enables users to search multiple terms in specific fields (title, author, subject, etc.) and limit by characteristics such as format, date, or audience level.

A free version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/

Composer-Specific Collections

Bach: Werke (IMSLP)
A digitized version of Bach's complete works, published from 1851 to 1899 by the Bach-Gesellschaft and Breitkopf & Härtel.
Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Digital Archives
Provides scanned images of manuscripts and early editions of Beethoven’s works, as well as letters, photographs, and other related documents.
Beethoven: Werke (IMSLP)
A digitized version of Beethoven's complete works, published from 1864 to 1890 by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Brahms-Institut: Digitale Bestände
This German-language site of the Brahms-Institut in Lübeck provides scanned images of first and early editions of Brahms’s works.
Chopin: Early Editions (University of Chicago)
Includes digitized images of over 400 first and early printed editions of Chopin's compositions.
Handel: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
An online version of the Händel-Gesellschaft edition of Handel’s complete works, produced by Chrysander between 1858 and 1902.
Liszt: Musikalische Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
A digitized version of Liszt’s Musikalische Werke, a complete edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel from 1907 through 1936.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
A digitized version of Mendessohn’s complete works, as edited by Julius Rietz and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1874-77.
Mozart: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum & Packard Humanities Institute)
A digitized version of the musical text and critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
Nielsen: Carl Nielsen Edition (Danish Centre for Music Publication)
Allows free downloads of selected scores from the complete Nielsen Edition.
Schubert: Manuskripte (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)
Contains digital reproductions of more than 500 autograph scores and letters of Franz Schubert. Site can be viewed in German or English.
Schubert: Werke (IMSLP)
A digitized version of Schubert's complete works, as published by Breitkopf & Härtel from 1884 through 1897.
Schumann: Autographs (Bonn University Library)
Provides digital scans of selected Schumann musical autographs, as well as sketchbooks and correspondence.
Schumann: Werke (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
A digital reproduction of the Breitkopf & Härtel edition of Schumann's complete works edited by Clara Schumann and published from 1879 to 1893.

Music Scores and Sheet Music: Scores Available Online

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General Score Collections

Composer-Specific Collections