Music (all courses)

If you are having difficulty locating a digital score of a work, bear in mind that it may be possible for you, as an individual, to request a free electronic perusal copy directly from a publisher. Here, for example, is a link where you can request digital perusal scores from Boosey & Hawkes. See also ScoresOnDemand below.

400 first and early editions of Chopin compositions from the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library.

A source for free scores of nearly 30,000 choral and vocal works by over 3,000 composers.

Contains 400,000 pages of classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.

A free and legal platform for composers, arrangers and publishers to offer contemporary, classical and educational free sheet music for all instruments.

Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of more than 3,000 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

A library of nearly half a million scores of works no longer protected by copyright. More than 50,000 recordings are also included.

This collection, held by Johns Hopkins University, contains over 30,000 pieces of American popular music spanning the period from 1780 to 1980.

The scores and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe for study and performance.

Over 47,000 pieces of historical sheet music held by the Library of Congress that were registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885.

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free eBooks. Their collection includes some classical sheet music.

Perusal scores from members of Wise Music Group: Chester Music, Novello & Co, G. Schirmer/AMP, Edition Wilhelm Hansen; Unión Musical.

Digital music books and scores in the public domain available through the University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music).

Online scores from Indiana University's Cook Music Library.

Links "to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources), and containing music notation of some kind, stored as an image file" (Wikipedia).