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.
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.