Music -- General Resources: Find Scores and Manuscripts

Digitized materials that document the American experience; includes sheet music and audio.

Includes 10,000 digitized pieces of vocal and choral sheet music in the public domain.

(Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano) A portal which provides access through a single search to digitized materials from the national libraries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Panama and Portugal.

Nearly 50.000 digitized scores, as well as manuscripts and recordings of works in the public domain.

Digitized manuscripts and scores from archives such as the British Library, Harvard, and the Morgan Library & Museum.

Digitized sheet music transcriptions based on public domain editions. Includes some MIDI files.

Guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, including access to digitized scores, audio, and more.

A cooperative digital library of sheet music drawn from collections around the world, including the Library of Congress and the National Library of Australia.

Eastman School of Music; contains nearly 14,000 digitized manuscripts and scores in the public domain.

Scores of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Digital archives of the Beethoven House - Bonn, Germany

Berlioz Website - music scores, etc.

"This site features nineteen early manuscript compositions by composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), spanning the period from 1896 to 1916, and comprising a portion of the Ernest Bloch Collection at the Library of Congress."

"This site is dedicated to the composer GIOVANNI BONONCINI (Modena, 18. July 1670 - Vienna, 9. july 1747), with complete works' catalogue.

The site is part of the "Bononcini project", a project planned and realized by Fondazione Arcadia with a grant from Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena."

Brahms' catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Indiana University

"This multimedia web site is part of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981)."

"Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was one of the most innovative American composers of the twentieth century. An extensive collection of his holograph scores and sketches are available in the Library of Congress, and a portion of these sketches have been made available online for researchers. These sketches trace the composer's journey of discovery during the most defining part of his career: 1932-1971.

"The project’s chief aim was to create an online resource uniting all of the first impressions of Chopin’s first editions in an unprecedented virtual collection, thereby providing direct access to musicians and musicologists to some of the most important primary source materials relevant to the composer’s music."

Date range: 1899-1981
approximately 5,000 images that include Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs

Dvorak's catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

The Glenn Gould Archive, Library and Archives Canada (archived website)

Händel, Georg Friedrich - Complete Works, Bavarian State Library

Joseph Haydn catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

Franz Liszt catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

Lully Collection from UNT Digital Library

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys - catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

Mozarteum - collection of Mozart's works

". . . the Nazareth Project seeks to recover and register Ernesto Nazareth works. . . ."

website devoted to Canada's leading jazz artist/composer, Oscar Peterson

Franz Schubert - catalog of works from Petrucci Music Library

Schumann, Robert - Works, Bavarian State Library

"An online presentation of selected music manuscripts, photographs, printed music, historical recordings of the Sousa Band, copies of programs and press clippings, and more from the Sousa Collection at the Library of Congress."