*Music: Scores

Find scores owned by the library. These scores are either on the shelf at the Music & Dance Library or may be recalled from the Library Annex.

Search WorldCat for scores in other libraries.

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. For most scores, the publication information is noted; however, some scores do not indicate the publisher and some have been re-set in programs like Finale or Sibelius. For public domain music editions, check here first.

Contains digital versions of works scanned from the libraries of the more than sixty partner institutions. Use the advanced catalog search to limit results by format.

The New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives has thousands of scores and parts from the orchestra’s library digitized and online. These are scores and parts marked by conductors and NY Phil musicians across its history, including the entire personal music library of Leonard Bernstein. The digital images are available online for study and research entirely for free.

Growing collection of public domain scores from the collections of the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Contains tens of thousands of images of sheet music from collections throughout the United States. Browsable by title, and searchable by composer, subject, publisher, and date. A project of "a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music." Hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles.

Contains over 29,000 pieces of American popular music dating from 1780 through 1980. A strength of the collection is its documentation of 19th-century America through popular music.

Contains over 62,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the periods of 1820-1860 and 1870-1885. Includes popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Contains approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music spanning from 1800 onward.

Contains over 660 titles published in Kansas City between 1874 and 1966.