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Finding Music for the Community User

Finding music related materials can be difficult for those without an academic affiliation. This is a guide to tools available to you.

Digital Scores

Digital Scores come in all kinds of forms. All of the music on the sites should be in the public domain music (for information about music that is in the public domain you can visit Public Domain Info). Most of the time the music is in pdf format and easily printed and/or downloaded

 

'Standard Rep' websites

Aria Database

Choral Public Domain Library - Choral sheet music that has mostly been re-typeset

 The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) - Tens of thousands musical scores

 

 

Many universities digitize fragile public domain materials and provide access to them through their library catalogs

Harvard University

Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library

Duke University String Quartets (1770-1840)

 

Composer Specific Sites

Chopin Early Editions at the University of Chicago

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe - Yes, really... the new edition

 

Manuscripts

Schubert Autographs

Juilliard Conservatory

 Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

Popular Sheet Music

African American Sheet Music at Brown University

Lester S Levy Collection at Johns Hopkins University

The Library of Congress Music Division has digitized huge volumes of American music, as well as manuscripts and letters of American-based composers

Wisconsin Sheet Music Database

Sheet Music Consortium

 

 

There are many more such sites listed at the UW-Milwaukee Music Collection website.