MUS 353: Music from 1750-1945: Music Scores Online

Free public domain sheet music library-large collection-- start here first

One of the world's largest free sheet music sites. you can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

Songs, arias and lieder for download (for a fee). Offers an option to transpose the music into a different key.

From Indiana University, dozens of scores for songs can be viewed at this site.

"Scores and books in the public domain, many .... unique to the Sibley Music Library collection."Sibley will digitize public domain scores from their collection on request!

First and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J. S. Bach & family, Mozart, Schubert; multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.

Over 400 full digitized scores-20th and 21st century composers, available free of charge. Scores cannot be printed or downloaded, they may be viewed and enlarged for study or research.

Digital versions of about half of the British Library’s holdings of 16th-century anthologies of printed music (approximately 10,000 musical compositions). The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England.

Music scores of selected works by Carl Nielsen are available for free download below. Also find introductions to his works and see what manuscript and printed sources are extant. More scores will be made available for download in the future.

Public domain sheet music, pre-1923 (from Indiana, Duke, Hopkins, UCLA)

Online collection of sheet music that "document[s] the American experience."

Visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents.