LibGuides: Music: Online Music Scores

Classical Music Scores

Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library Digital Scores
Online Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Beethovenhaus Bonn. Digital Archives
Contains the unique collections of the Beethoven-Haus: Music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures and many recordings.
Free Scores

Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Indiana University
A complete catalog of the entire Carmichael Collection, access to selected digital objects, and supplemental research information, such as genealogy.
Music for the American Nation: Sheet Music 1870-1885
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory series. Contains over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
African American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory series. Consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music.
Sheet Music Consortium
This site searches the digital sheet music collections of UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University.
19th Century American Sheet Music
American music material in the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library.
19th Century California Sheet Music
A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900 and related materials. University of California, Berkeley.

Purchase (in most cases) and download Broadway and other genres of sheet music from:

Virtual Music Rare Book Room
Digital collection of early opera scores, particularly Lully and other French composers.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts . The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1500, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. Access is free to anyone, but you must register.