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Scores (Printed Music)
Search for UConn's printed music in HOMER
Scores on the Web
Many digital versions of older, public-domain scores are available free on the web. Below are starting points. The library also has Music on CD-ROM (PDFs).
Topics Covered
- Classical Music (including pre-1800 early editions and manuscripts)
- Sheet Music (jazz and popular music)
- Guides to Other Online Scores
- Devotional
- Commercial, For-Profit Sites
- Music on CD-ROM
Classical Music
(Including Pre-1800 Early Editions and Manuscripts)
Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Digital Archives -- Early editions, sketches, correspondence, images, etc.
Brahms-Institut Digitale Bestände -- Early editions, sketches, correspondence, images, etc.
Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago)
Choral Public Domain Library -- Scores, texts, and translations.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (ca. 800 to 1500)
Gutenberg: The Sheet Music Project -- Includes classical music scores.
International Music Scores Library (IMSLP) -- Public domain musical scores, plus scores from composers who are sharing their music. Includes the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (1851-1899) and most of Chopin's works. Wiki based.
Mozart Neue Ausgabe (New Mozart: Digital Edition)
MuseData: An Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores -- Printable parts and scores for works by Bach, Beethoven, Corelli, Dvorak, Handel, Haydn, Marcello, Mozart, Rovetta, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Indicates editions used. From the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
Musical Theatre Scores (U. Illinois, Internet Archive) -- Opera and musical theater (G&S, Kern, Sousa, Herbert)
Royal Library, Denmark, Digital Music Archive
Schirmer on Demand -- View and in many cases print scores from Schirmer's catalog of works by 20th and 21st century composers. Free registration required. 500 works so far.
Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online (Eastman) -- public domain, mostly unique to Sibley's collection.
VARIATIONS: Online Musical Scores -- Public-domain classical music (Indiana)
Virtual Music Rare Book Room ((U. North Texas) -- Early opera scores, particularly Lully and other French composers.
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive -- Mostly public-domain editions of early music (sometimes the first modern editions). Also has music from today's composers.
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Sheet Music (Jazz and Popular Music)
Lists of Collections:
Digital Librarian: Locating Lyrics, Sheet Music, Librettos & Scores -- List of topical song indexes and digital collections.
Sheet Music Collections -- Indexes to sheet music collections in other libraries. Some have digitized music (including "classical"); others require that you contact the libraries to request reproductions. (By Duke U.)
Sheet Music Consortium -- Searches the digital sheet music collections of UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. Open Archives Initiative.
Virtual Music Libraries (U.Va) -- Archived version.
Selected Collections:
African American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 (from Library of Congress American Memory)
Digital Archive of Popular American Music (UCLA)
I Hear America Sing -- Library of Congress. Historical sheet music published 1800-1922. Includes early pieces by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and other popular composers, as well as arrangements of classical tunes by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and other famous classical composers.
Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Indiana University
Music for the American Nation: Sheet Music 1870-1885 (from Library of Congress American Memory)
19th Century American Sheet Music (UNC-Chapel Hill)
19th Century California Sheet Music (UC Berkeley) 1872-1900
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Guides to Other Online Scores
Printable Music on the Web -- Guide by Marty Jenkins (Wright State)
Online Music Scores (To Download) -- Many links
Classical Sheet Music Page -- Sheet music publishers and databases
Free Sheet Music Downloads (includes lists of links)
Schubertline -- 19th to 20th century vocal music (requires Scorch2 plugin). Transposes.
Classical Music MIDI, MP3 & Sheet Music Archives
Virtual Music Libraries (U.Va) -- Archived version.
Devotional
Choral Public Domain Library -- 7500 scores. Also had MP3 and MIDI files.
The Cyber Hymnal -- Over 2700 Christian hymns and gospel songs, multidenominational
The Electronic Hymnal -- Hymns, church music and sacred songs, multidenominational
The Lutheran Hymnal -- Hymns in MIDI format, some arrangements for purchase
Music Resources at TheoTech: An Internet Primer for Pastors, Musicians & Worship Planners
Commercial, For-Profit Sites
J.W. Pepper E-Print Digital Library -- Few free downloads
Schirmer on Demand -- Free preview and some printing
Schubertline -- Lieder, songs, and arias tranposed to any key using the free software Sibelius Scorch. View and listen for free; some preliminary free downloads may be available.
SheetMusicDirect.com -- No free downloads
Sheet Music Now -- classical and jazz sheet music to download, print and play; institutional subscription is a new option (not currently available at UConn).
Sunhawk.com -- No free downloads
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Music on CD-ROM
UConn has some printed music on CD-ROM (PDF format). To browse descriptions for all the CD-ROMs, go to HOMER and do a Keyword search on CD Sheet Music. Add a composer's last name] if desired.
Example: CD sheet music schubert
The regular score searches described under scores and in the Finding Music guides will also find music on CD-ROM.
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