Digitized Sheet Music
This site lists selected sites which allow you to view or legally download "sheet music" for free. Some material might be public domain but other may be under copyright rules. Please respect the copyright rules. Almost all these sites require Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader go to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Some sites will require specialized viewers and will indicate how to download the appropriate software.
Classical Music
Acadia Early Music Archive - selected instrumental and vocal music from the Renaissance and the Baroque
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier (Shockwave required)
COMPOMUS - scores of selected contemporary Brazilian composers
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) - includes over 3000 works. Most of these items are in public domain but some are available in Canada and Europe but not the U.S.
Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection - University of North Texas Music Library's collection of early editions of operas and ballets of Lully.
Johan Tufvesson's Sheet Music Archive Library - selected instrumental music from the 17th and 18th centuries
Julliard Manuscript Collection - collection of 138 autographed manuscripts, sketches, engraver's proofs and first editions. It includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 manuscript prepared for the printer with extensive revisions, corrections, and alterations by the composer. Note: some material in this collection is still under U.S. copyright protection.
La Folia - a musical cathedral - various versions of La Folia
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version (Digital Mozart Edition) - the complete works of Mozart published by the Mozart Institute. The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna. The printed edition has been published by Bärenreiter-Verlag (www.mozart-portal.de and www.baerenreiter.com). Some restrictions apply to the reproduction of images of source materials, particularly in the supplement to the edition.
VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores from the William and Gayle Cooke Music Library at the University of Indiana - includes selected scores of selected, song literature, choral and orchestral literature, chamber music, piano music, and solo instrument literature.
Werner Icking Music Archive - a very large archival site that contains scores from a long list of composers
Popular Music
19th Century California Sheet Music (University of California, Berkeley)
Charles H. Templeton Ragtime Sheet Music Collection (Mississippi State University)
Eubie Blake Collection (of) Sheet Music (Maryland Historical Society)
Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)
I Hear America Singing (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)
Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection (Lewis Music Library - MIT)
Kirk Collection: Popular Song Index (Indiana State University)
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (John Hopkins University)
Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 ( New York Public Library) (includes music, sound clips, and silent video clips)
Popular American Music (UCLA)
Sheet Music from Canada's Past (Library and Archives Canada) - click on "Search Sheet Music"
Star Spangled Banner Sheet Music Collection (Maryland Historical Society)
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If you would like to suggest a site, please e-mail Pam Enrici, Music Librarian, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
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Page updated Sept. 2007