Online Music Scores
The following are resources for online scores with various scorings. Read the description of
each to determine which resource(s) best suit(s) your needs.
8notes
( http://8notes.com/ )
Offers free print music for most instruments, including recorder, voice, bass guitar,
mandolin, ukulele, and various ensembles.
Art Song Central
( http://artsongcentral.com/ )
An archive and directory of free, printable vocal sheet music with emphasis on standard
classical and traditional repertoire. IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcriptions
available for every German, French, Italian, and Latin song in the index.
Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) (CPDL.org)
( http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page )
CPDL began in December of 1998 and has become one the largest free sheet music
sites. The archive focuses on choral and vocal music in public domain.
Free-Scores.com
( http://www.free-scores.com/ )
Free sheet music for the following instruments and ensembles: band, banjo, bass,
bassoon, choir, clarinet, cornet, double bass, drum, electronic keyboard, English horn,
euphonium, fiddle, flugelhorn, flute, guitar, handbells, harmonica, harp, harpsichord,
horn, lute, mandolin, marching band, marimba, oboe, orchestra, organ, panpipes,
percussion, piano, recorder, saxophone, theorb, trombone, trumpet, tuba, ukulele,
vibraphone, viola, violin, violoncello, voice, and xylophone.
HathiTrust Digital Library
( http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=composers%20dictionary;a=srchls;lmt=ft )
A digital repository of scores and books in public domain and items in copyright. Access
is free.
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
( http://imslp.org/ )
The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to
the music scores of all contemporary composers who wish to release them to the public
free of charge. Another goal is to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of
compositions: for example, the analysis of a particular piece of music.
J. S. Bach's Church Cantatas
( http://www.bh2000.net/score/sacrbach/ )
Vocal scores of all of Bach's church cantatas.
Music Treasures Consortium
( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html )
The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued
music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives.
Mutopia Project
( http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ )
The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of public domain classical music for free
download.
NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
( http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l=2 )
The goal of Neue Mozart-Ausgabe online 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. The digitized version offers the musical text and
the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the
Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the cities of Augsburg, Salzburg,
and Vienna.
Project Gutenberg: The Sheet Music Project
( http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Sheet_Music_Project )
Project Gutenberg began in 1971 with the goal to make literature available free of
charge. This website also offers digitized public domain sheet music free of charge to
enable study and performance. The Sheet Music Project is currently dormant.
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Sheet Music Consortium
( http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ )
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building
an open collection of digitized sheet music. This project is hosted by UCLA Digital Library
Program, which provides an access service to sheet music records at the host libraries.
The collection allows users direct access to the music itself and--in many cases--covers
and advertisements that offer evidence of the cultural context in which the songs were
published.
Spencer Collection: American Meltingpot
( http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/fa-spnc )
The Spencer Collection is housed at Baylor University and consists of approximately
30,000 titles, spanning from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. The majority
of the works are for voice and piano or for solo piano. Only a selection of the collection is
currently digitalized. Downloading and printing is free of charge.
UR Research--at the University of Rochester--Eastman School of Music-Sibley Music Library
( https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionId=63 )
UR Research is a digital repository of scores and books in public domain. Many of these
are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection. Access is free.
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