This is a list of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed below offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources). They may contain scanned images, fully encoded scores, or encodings designed for music playback (e.g., via MIDI). Some (e.g., KernScores) are adapted for music analysis.
Name Subject(s) of Items Description Provider(s) 19th-Century American Sheet Music at UNC Chapel Hill Music Library 19th-century, American 3,500Approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century. Contains catalog descriptions and digital images of the individual pieces. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19th-Century California Sheet Music 19th-century, Californian, colour 2,700Sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, along 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. University of California, Berkeley African American Sheet Music 19th-century, 20th-century, African-American, Broadway, colour, lithographs, movie music, popular music, World Wars, Yiddish-American 250,000Sheet music, primarily vocal music of American imprint, dating from the 18th century to the present, with most titles in the period 1840–1950. John Hay Library at Brown University ART SONG CENTRAL downloadable, IPA transcriptions, vocal 1,000Printable sheet music primarily for singers and voice teachers—most downloadable. Emphasis on standard classical and traditional repertoire. IPA transcriptions available for every German, French, Italian and Latin song in the index. Supplementary information on more than 250 songs. ART SONG CENTRAL The Ashford Sheet Music Collection American, Washington 1,000Largely from and about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Bach digital Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach's autograph manuscripts and original parts. Advanced search options. High-resolution scans. Also contains Bach's copies of works by other composers. Comprises at least 90% of extant Bach manuscripts worldwide. Funding provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and others. Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, Saxon State and University Library Dresden, Leipzig Bach-Archiv, Leipzig University Computing Center Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archives audio, Beethoven, colour, first editions, letters, pictures 15,300Links more than 6,100 documents on 37,300 coloured high-quality scans, 1,600 audio files (including music examples and audio letters), and 7,600 text files. Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archives Biblioteca Digital Hispanica Spanish, JPEGDownloadable color images. Biblioteca Nacional de España Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brasil 19th-century, Brazil, sheet musicSheet music in the Brazilian National Digital Library. Brazilian National Digital Library Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Britain, broadside ballads 30,000Printed materials range from the 16th to the 20th Century. University of Oxford Brahms-Institut Johannes Brahms 20,000RGB tiff images with a resolution of 1,200 dpi (photos) or 400 dpi (autographs, letters, prints, etc.). Brahms-Institut The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Facsimiles black and white, medieval, monophonicMedieval-era manuscripts written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221–1284). One of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages. The To Codex contains roughly the first 100 cantigas, the E Codex all of the cantigas. Illuminations may be found in the E Codex with every 10th cantiga. Greg Lindahl The Cello Music Collection of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro violoncello, cello, manuscriptThe largest single holding of cello music–related materials in the world, including annotated sheet music (manuscript and published), monographs, serials, audio/video recordings, personal papers, and artifacts associated with noted cellists. Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection 19th-century, 20th-century, American, blues, foxtrots, Irving Berlin, minstrel songs, movie music, popular music, rags, show tunes, war songs 5,000Sheet music for popular tunes dating as far back as 1865. Items are scanned at 600 dpi and saved as a TIFF files. Mississippi State University CHASE research project, University of Leeds, UK 19th- and early 20th-century performing editions of string music 2,000AHRC-funded research project containing music files viewable on-site or as downloads. Most of the music consists of chamber music and concertos for string instruments, edited and annotated by such players as Ferdinand David, Friedrich Grützmacher, and Joseph Joachim. University of Leeds Cardiff University Chopin's First Editions Online early editions, Frédéric ChopinAll of the first impressions of Chopin's first editions. Centre for Computing in the Humanities Chopin Online Catalog early editions, Frédéric Chopin 85Scores of early printed editions of Chopin's music works published before 1881, of which 74 are works with opus number and 11 are without. University of Chicago Library Classical Music Score Digitization Project (CMSDP) Common practice period, classicalPublicly editable library of public domain music in standardized, machine-parsable formats such as MusicXML, MuseScore, Sibelius, and Finale. Largest public, centralized repository of fully digitized CPP scores. Classical Music Score Digitization Project The Classical String Quartet, 1770–1840 string quartetRare and unusual publications of music for string quartet. Duke University Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Virtual Library colour, medieval 383Manuscripts from the medieval codices in the Abbey library of St. Gallen. Downloadable colour PDFs and XML files. Abbey library of St. Gallen The Computerized Mensural Music Editing Project early music, xml score dataHigh-quality early music scores. Online corpus of electronic editions and associated software tools. Utrecht University Contemporary Music Score Collection contemporary music, global music 5,500Published in eScholarship, the collection includes digital, open access scores. UCLA Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) colour, manuscripts, medieval, polyphonicImages of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts from approximately 800 to 1600. Includes detailed information for all known sources of European polyphonic music (almost entirely vocal), high-resolution colour TIFF images, and links to external images available at other sites. University of Oxford Digital Scores from the Collections of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library 19th-century, Bach, libretti, Mozart, opera, SchubertFirst and early editions and manuscripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers. Multiple versions of 19th-century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. Harvard University The Düben Collection Database Catalogue 17th and early 18th centuries 2,300Metadata and scanned facsimiles of items in the Düben collection of musical manuscripts and prints from the 17th and early 18th centuries. Department of Musicology at Uppsala University, Uppsala University Library e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland early modern manuscripts, medieval 659Medieval and early modern manuscripts from several Swiss libraries, including the Abbey Library of St. Galla. E-codices Early Music Online early music 10,000Digitised images of over 320 volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, from holdings at the British Library, made available for non-commercial use under JISC's Open Education User Licence. Royal Holloway University of London Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Sheet Music American, popular music 30,000From the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Baylor University Ignaz Pleyel Early Editions chamber music, French, Ignaz Pleyel, keyboard music 200Early printed and manuscript scores of the French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831). Includes arrangements of large orchestral works published within the composer's lifetime. University of Iowa IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana downloadable sheet music, open source software 129,400Sheet music and open-source sheet music cataloging software. Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) 799,000Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers. International Music Score Library Project Inventions of Note popular music, technology 50Sheet music for popular songs and piano compositions, mostly 1890–1920. Lewis Music Library at MIT Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection 17th-century, 18th-century, French, Jean-Baptiste Lully 30Rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas, ballets, and compilations by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons. University of North Texas Music Library Juilliard Manuscript Collection Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart 138Autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and first editions. The Juilliard School KernScores classicalScanned graphical music scores (separated by movement), with manually corrected OMR data: Beethoven piano sonatas edited by Paul Dukas. Édition classique a Durand & fils, No. 9327. 1915. Mozart piano sonatas from the Alte Mozart-Ausgabe: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe (volume 20 ). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig; 1877–1883. Selected Haydn keyboard sonatas (partial OMR) 34 harpsichord/pianoforte sonatas from the first four volumes published by Universal Edition (1901). D. Scarlatti keyboard sonatas (partial OMR) Edited by Alessandro Longo (Ricordi, 1906–1913). Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities Laborde Chansonnier 15th-century, manuscript, mensural, sacred, OctavoOne book of music from Rare Book Room, which contains digitized books of many types.