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Music: Free Sheet Music Websites

Introduction to Music Sources

Free Digital Sheet Music

Digital Sheet Music Collection
     The Digital Sheet Music Project in the University of South Carolina’s Library.
     This searchable database provides access to the bibliographic records at USC
     and fulltext access for those pieces in the public domain. It contains over
     4,000 pieces of public domain classical, popular, and sacred music from
     the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Digital Sheet Music Consortium
      Digitized sheet music in the public domain (prior to 1923).  consortium members include
      UCLA, Indiana University, John Hoplins University and the Library of Congress.

Bodleian Library Broadsides
        The Bodleian Library has holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. 
         The materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes 
         the digitized copies available to the research community.

California Sheet Music Project, UC Berkeley
         A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California
         between 1852 and 1900.  Images of every printed page of sheet music
         have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated.

Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennesee State University
          The Center for Popular Music ia anarchive and research center devoted to the study of 
          American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present.

Choral Public Domain Library
          This site is a wiki-style portal dedicated to providing free, legal scores 
          of choral music.

Digitzed Opera & Musical Theatre Scores
          Nearly 100 opera and musical theater scores from UIUC have been digitized.
          Works of composers such as Gilbert & Sullivan, John Philip Sousa and Victor Herbert
          are represented.

Historic American Sheet Music

          From Duke University, a collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music.

IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library
          A virtual library containing public domain music scores, as well as scores from
          composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

Folk song Index
         An index to traditional folk songs of the world.  Each entry includes the song title,
         first line of chorus, first line of verse, and a citation.

W. A. Mozart's Complete Works
       Mozart's musical compositions accessible to the public for personal study, educational
       and classroom use.


MDZ - the Munich Digitization Center 
         With more than 900,000 titles avaliable online, the MDZ provides one of the
         largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany.
         Search music sheets and musical manuscripts by Subject, Authors, Composers,
         Time and Place of Publication.