Music: Websites

"The Nineteenth Century American Sheet Music Collection at the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library includes approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century."

"A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music from eleven locations have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated."

Bach-Gesellschaft Edition (German: Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, BGA) of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach published in a series of 46 volumes from 1851-1899.

Largest public domain collection of online choral sheet music.

"The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University has about forty collections of string quartets in parts dating from this time (about 1770-1840), most, though not all complete, and representing composers whose works are rarely found in modern editions."

"The Loeb Music Library (Harvard University) is engaged in an ongoing program to digitize scores and libretti selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching."

The goal of the Petrucci Music Library is to create a "virtual library containing all public domain music, as well as music from composers who are willing to share their work with the world without charge."

"IN Harmony features Indiana-related sheet music - sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists or publishers as well as sheet music about the state."

Sibley Music Library's collection of scores and books in the public domain. Many scores are unique to the Sibley collection.

"The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna."

Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections.

Large compilation site of links to various sheet music collections on the web throughout the world.

"Experimental prototypes of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings available online through VARIATIONS."

"By linking more than 6,100 documents on 37,300 coloured scans of high quality, 1,600 audio files (music examples, audio letters) and 7,600 text files, Beethoven's thinking, life and work become tangible and can be experienced in a visual and audible way. Portraits and topographical depictions show the composer and the world he lived in."

An Index to Recorded and Print Resources

"Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress"

Includes MIDIs, MP3s, and lead sheets for piano and guitar,

"Free Hymn Texts, Tunes, and Sheet Music;
Lectionary and Psalter Resources"

"Featuring over 10,000 Christ­ian hymns, Author Bios, Composer Biographies, Hymn Histories and Gos­pel songs from ma­ny de­nom­in­a­tions."