Digital Score Collections
These collections are focused on musical scores and other music-related materials from more than one period; for links to many more, see Online Resources for Music Scholars.
- Music Online: Classical Scores LibraryFull, study, piano, and vocal scores of music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, available for use online or printed/saved to PDF.
- IMSLPIMSLP (The International Music Score Library Project) holds thousands of digitized scores from collections around the world. The site is governed by Canadian copyright law; not all available scores are in the public domain in the United States. Use Harvard's subscription to skip wait times for downloads.
- A-R Editions' Online Music Anthology550 representative vocal and instrumental compositions from antiquity through the nineteenth century. All scores can be viewed online or printed.
- BabelScoresOnline music library featuring creative contemporary composers from the last decades.
- Digital Scores and LibrettiDigitized manuscripts, first, and early editions from the Music Library's special collections. Editions of many of the works on the syllabus are included in this collection, including a manuscript copy of Die Zauberflote, first editions of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner operas, over 130 pieces by Schubert, and works by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ravel, Stravinsky, Strauss, Debussy, and many others
- The Music Treasures ConsortiumMusic manuscripts and print materials from the 16th to the 20th centuries, from the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard, The Library of Congress, The British Library, The Morgan Library and Museum, The Lila Acheson Wallace Library at The Juilliard School, and the New York Public Library
- Sibley Digital ScoresPublic Domain scores from the collections of the Sibley Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
- ViFaMusik: Virtual Library of MusicologyA portal for music and musicology, including digitized scores, bibliographies, and links to other resources
- Online Resources for Music Scholars: Digital ScoresLinks to many more digital score and sheet music collections, from a research guide maintained by the Loeb Music Library
Digital Libraries
Many libraries, archives, and other organizations have put portions of their collections online. These are not devoted solely to music, but they contain thousands of scores, recordings, and related works:
- EuropeanaA digital library of paintings, music, films and books from Europe's galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- GallicaDigital collections from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Internet Culturale: Cataloghi et collezioni digitali delle biblioteche italianeThe catalogs and digital collections of libraries, museums, and archives throughout Italy, ranging from medieval manuscripts held in Trent, Venice, Bologna, and Perugia to operatic works by Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, and Puccini (and many things in between)
- Digitale Bibliothek: Das Münchener DigitalisierungszentrumThe immense digital library of the Bayerrische Staatsbibliothek, including thousands of digitized scores
- Internet Archive: Text ArchiveAlmost 2 million books and scores from library collections around the world. The Internet Archive also preserves audio, film, and image collections