List of online digital musical document

libraries
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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), and containing music notation of some kind, stored as an image
file.

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Name Subject(s) Description Provider(s)
Items
The Nineteenth Century American
Sheet Music Collection at the UNC-
19th-Century Chapel Hill Music Library includes
American Sheet approximately 3,500 popular vocal University of North
19th-century,
Music at UNC 3500 and instrumental titles from the Carolina at Chapel
American
Chapel Hill Music 1830s to the end of the century. This Hill
Library site contains catalog descriptions
and digital images of the individual
pieces in the collection.
A virtual library of some 2,700
pieces of sheet music published in
California between 1852 and 1900,
together with related materials such
19th-Century 19th-century, as a San Francisco publisher's
University of
California Sheet Californian, 2700 catalog of 1872, programs,
California, Berkeley
Music colour 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.
19th-century,
20th-century,
African-
250,000 items from the John Hay
American,
Library at Brown University. The
Broadway,
sheet music, primarily vocal music
African American colour,
250000 of American imprint, dates from the Brown University
Sheet Music lithographs,
18th century to the present day, with
movie music,
the largest concentration of titles in
popular music,
the period 18401950.
World Wars,
Yiddish-
American
ART SONG downloadable, Printable sheet music for singers ART SONG
1000
CENTRAL IPA and voice teachers. An emphasis is CENTRAL
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transcriptions, placed on standard classical and
vocal traditional repertoire. 1000+ songs
references, most downloadable. IPA
transcriptions are now available for
every German, French, Italian and
Latin song in the index. 250+ songs
have individual posts which provide
additional information about each
song.
The collection contains 1000+ items
The Ashford Sheet American, University of
1000 largely from and about Washington
Music Collection Washington Washington
State and the Pacific Northwest.
Bach Digital is a digital library
consisting of Johann Sebastian
Bach's autograph manuscripts and
original parts. Using advanced
search options of works or sources,
one can find high-resolution scans
of the autograph manuscripts, as
well as performance parts used by
Bach and his copies of works by
other composers.

The autograph manuscripts and

original sources from the collections Berlin State Library -
of all of the participating partners Prussian Cultural
the Berlin State Library, the Bach- Heritage, Saxon
Archiv Leipzig and the Saxon State State and University
Johann Sebastian
Bach Digital Library Dresden State and Library Dresden,
Bach
University Library will be Leipzig Bach-
digitized by 2011, thereby Archiv, Leipzig
encompassing 90% of the University
worldwide remaining manuscripts. Computing Center
Further autograph manuscripts from
other collections should be
integrated at a later date. Bach
Digital is a joint project of the
Berlin State Library Prussian
Cultural Heritage, the Saxon State
Library-Dresden State and
University Library, the Leipzig
Bach-Archiv and the Leipzig
University Computing Center.
Funding is provided by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Beethoven-Haus audio, Beethoven, By linking more than 6,100 Beethoven-Haus
15300
Bonn Digital colour, first documents on 37,300 coloured Bonn Digital
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Items
Archives editions, letters, scans of high quality, 1,600 audio Archives
pictures 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.
Biblioteca Digital Downloadable color images from Biblioteca Nacional
Spanish, jpeg
Hispanica Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa. de Espaa
The contents of the Brazilian
Biblioteca 19th-century,
National Digital Library when Brazilian National
Nacional Digital Brasil, sheet
searching for "Type of document: Digital Library
Brasil music
Partitura."
The Bodleian Library at University
of Oxford has unparalleled holdings
of over 30,000 ballads in several
major collections. The original
Bodleian Library Britain, broadside printed materials range from the
30000 University of Oxford
Broadside Ballads ballads 16th- to the 20th-Century. The
Broadside Ballads project makes the
digitised copies of the sheets and
ballads available to the research
community.
Das Brahms-Institut braucht mit
derzeit annhernd 20.000 online
verfgbaren Digitalisaten den
Vergleich mit anderen Institutionen
nicht zu scheuen. Die Digitalisate
liegen in einer Auflsung von 1.200
dpi (Fotos) bzw. 400 dpi
Brahms-Institut Johannes Brahms 20000 Brahms-Institut
(Autographe, Briefe, Drucke etc.)
als RGB-Tifs vor und sind bereits
sorgfltig freigestellt, um die
graphische Weiterverarbeitung zu
erleichtern. Auch in gestalterischer
Hinsicht setzt die Prsentation des
Archivs neue Mastbe.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria
medieval-era manuscripts were
written during the reign of Alfonso
X "El Sabio" (12211284) and are
The Cantigas de black and white, one of the largest collections of
Santa Maria: medieval, monophonic (solo) songs from the Greg Lindahl
Facsimiles monophonic Middle Ages. The To Codex
contains roughly the first 100
cantigas and the E Codex contains
all of the Cantigas. The cantigas'
famous illuminations may be found
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Items
in the E Codex with every 10th
cantiga.
Very much a work in progress, the
database will initially provide links
to hundreds of manuscripts, which
Catalogue of
we expect quickly to grow to University of
Digitized
medieval thousands. Basic information about California, Los
Medieval
the manuscripts is fully searchable, Angeles
Manuscripts
and users can also browse through
the complete contents of the
database.
The Cello Music Collection of the
Special Collections and University
Archives at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro constitutes
the largest single holding of cello
music-related materials in the world.
The Cello Music The collection contains annotated Martha Blakeney
Collection of the sheet music (manuscript and Hodges Special
violoncello, cello,
University of published), monographs, serials, Collections and
manuscript
North Carolina at audio-video recordings, personal University Archives,
Greensboro papers, and artifacts associated with UNCG
cellists noted for their distinguished
contributions in the areas of
composition, performance,
pedagogy, and music history.
Presently, the archive is composed
of the collections of twelve cellists.
19th-century,
20th-century,
This online sheet music collection
American, blues,
from Mississippi State University of
Charles H. foxtrots, Irving
over 5,000 pieces includes popular Mississippi State
Templeton Sheet Berlin, minstrel 5000
tunes dating as far back as 1865. University
Music Collection songs, movie
Items are scanned at 600 dpi and
music, popular
saved as a TIFF files.
music, rags, show
tunes, war songs
This AHRC-funded research project
is based at the University of LEeds
and Cardiff University. This digital
19th- and early
resource is still under construction,
CHASE research 20th-century
but currently holds c.2000 separate University of Leeds
project, University performing 2000
music files viewable on-site or as Cardiff University
of Leeds, UK editions of string
downloads. Most of this music
music
consists of chamber music and
concertos for string instruments,
edited and annotated by such
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Items
players as Ferdinand David,
Friedrich Grtzmacher, Joseph
Joachim, etc.
An online resource uniting all of the Centre for
Chopin's First early editions,
first impressions of Chopin's first Computing in the
Editions Online Frdric Chopin
editions. Humanities
A collection of scores of early
printed editions of music works by
the composer Frdric Chopin
Chopin Online early editions, (18101849). Its scope is 85 of University of
85
Catalog Frdric Chopin Chopins works published before Chicago Library
1881, of which 74 are works with
opus number and 11 are a selection
of works without opus number.
The Classical Rare and unusual publications of
String Quartet, string quartet music for string quartet from Duke Duke University
17701840 University.
Codices
383 manuscripts from the medieval
Electronici
codices in the Abbey library of St. Abbey library of St.
Sangallenses colour, medieval 383
Gallen. Downloadable colour PDF Gallen
(CESG) Virtual
and XML.
Library
A scholarly initiative to offer free
online access to new, high-quality
early music scores. Based at Utrecht
University in the Netherlands, the
The Computerized major purpose of the enterprise is to The Computerized
early music, xml
Mensural Music produce and maintain an online Mensural Music
score data
Editing Project corpus of electronic editions, in Editing Project
addition to software tools making
them accessible to students,
scholars, performers, and interested
amateurs
Images of worldwide collections of
medieval polyphonic music
manuscripts. The music and the
Digital Image colour, manuscripts date from approx 800
Digital Image
Archive of manuscripts, to 1550. This website includes
Archive of Medieval
Medieval Music medieval, detailed information for all the
Music
(DIAMM) polyphonic known sources of European
polyphonic music (which is almost
entirely vocal) and high-quality
colour images of some manuscripts.
Digital Scores 19th-century, A collection of first and early
from the Bach, libretti, editions and manuscript copies of
Harvard University
Collections of the Mozart, opera, music from the eighteenth and early
Eda Kuhn Loeb Schubert nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach
 No. of
Name Subject(s) Description Provider(s)
Items
Music Library and Bach family members, Mozart,
Schubert and other composers, as
well as multiple versions of
nineteenth century opera scores,
seminal works of musical
modernism, and music of the
Second Viennese School.
Medieval and early modern
e-codices: Virtual manuscripts from Swiss libraries,
early modern
Manuscript including the Abbey Library of St.
manuscripts, 659 E-codices
Library of Gall. The virtual library contains
medieval
Switzerland 659 manuscripts from 28 different
libraries.
This collection holds digitised
images of some of the world's oldest
surviving volumes of printed music.

Early Music Online is the result of a

pilot project in which more than 300
volumes of 16th-century music from
the British Library were digitised
from microfilm. The project was
funded by JISC as part of the Rapid
Digitisation programme 2011, and
will be formally launched at the end
of September 2011. You can
preview the digitised music below. Royal Holloway
Early Music
early music The digitised content is copyright University of
Online
The British Library Board, and is London
made available for non-commercial
use under the JISC Collections
Open Education User Licence
version 1.0. You may use the
digitised content on Early Music
Online in any way and for any such
purposes that are conducive to
education, teaching, learning,
private study and/or research as long
as you are in compliance with the
terms and conditions of the licence.
You may not use the content for
commercial purposes.
Frances G.
30,000 titles spanning from the late
Spencer Collection American,
30000 18th century to the early 20th Baylor University
of American Sheet popular music
century.
Music
George Frideric Handel 50 Fifty downloadable orchestral Unknown
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Name Subject(s) Description Provider(s)
Items
Handel scores and sheet music in Acrobat
format derived from the Deutschen
Hndelgesellschaft series edited by
F.W. Chrysander, published 1858
1894.
This digital collection from the
University of Iowa of over 200 early
printed and manuscript scores
represents the work of French
chamber music,
composer and music publisher,
Ignaz Pleyel Early French, Ignaz
200 Ignaz Pleyel (17571831). It University of Iowa
Editions Pleyel, keyboard
consists primarily of keyboard and
music
chamber music, including
arrangements of large orchestral
works, published within the
composer's lifetime.
A search and discovery system for
accessing sheet music for 129400+
pieces from the Indiana University
IN Harmony: Lilly Library, the Indiana State
downloadable,
Sheet Music from 129400 Library, the Indiana State Museum, Indiana University
open source
Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society.
The IN Harmony open source sheet
music cataloging software is
available.
Online since February 16, 2006
58,594 works 213,940 scores
20,283 recordings 7,836
composers 199 performers
International
International Music
Music Score The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is
234000 Score Library
Library Project to gather all public domain music
Project
(IMSLP) scores, in addition to the music
scores of all contemporary
composers (or their estates) who
wish to release them to the public
free of charge.
This sheet music collection consists
of popular songs and piano
compositions (mostly 18901920)
that portray technologies (old and Massachusetts
popular music,
Inventions of Note 50 new alike) as revealed through song Institute of
technology
texts and/or cover art. The Technology
collection contains approximately
50 pieces of sheet music owned by
the Lewis Music Library at MIT.
Jean-Baptiste 17th-century, The University of North Texas University of North
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Name Subject(s) Description Provider(s)
Items
Lully Collection 18th-century, Music Library's Jean-Baptiste Lully Texas
French, Jean- Collection includes almost thirty
Baptiste Lully rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-
century scores of operas, ballets,
and compilations by the
seventeenth-century French
composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and
his sons.
Juilliard 138 autograph manuscripts,
Beethoven,
Manuscript 138 sketches, engravers proofs, and first The Juilliard School
Brahms, Mozart
Collection editions.
Scanned graphical music scores
(separated by movement), with
manually corrected OMR data:

Beethoven piano sonatas

edited by Paul Dukas.
dition classique a Durand
& fils, No. 9327. 1915.
Mozart piano sonatas from
the Alte Mozart-Ausgabe:
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozarts Werke. Kritisch
durchgesehene
Center for Computer
Gesammtausgabe (volume
KernScores classical Assisted Research in
20 [1878]). Breitkopf &
the Humanities
Hrtel, Leipzig; 18771883.
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).

One book of music from Rare Book

Room, which contains digitized
15th-century, books of many types.
Laborde manuscript,
Rare Book Room
Chansonnier mensural, sacred, Laborde Chansonnier ca. 1470
Octavo Unknown, (author) France
Library of Congress, Music
Division
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Items
19th-century,
29,000 pieces of American popular
Lester S. Levy American,
music spanning the years 1780 to Johns Hopkins
Collection of minstrel music, 29000
1980 from Johns Hopkins University
Sheet Music popular music,
University.
war songs
20 000+ patriotic and parlour songs,
piano pieces, sacred music and
Library and novelty numbers published before
Archives Canada: Canadian, popular 1900, from 1900 to 1913 and from Library and Archives
20000
Sheet Music From music 1914 to 1920. Besides the expected Canada
Canada's Past Canadian imprints, it includes music
by Canadians or about Canada
published anywhere in the world.
3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn
from the Rare Book, Manuscript,
The Library of and Special Collections Library at
Congress: Historic Duke University, which holds an The Library of
American 3042
American Sheet important, representative, and Congress
Music: 18501920 comprehensive collection of
nineteenth- and early twentieth-
century American sheet music.
62,500 pieces of historical sheet
music registered for copyright: more
than 15,000 registered during the
The Library of years 18201860 and more than
Congress: Music 47,000 registered during the years
19th-century, The Library of
for the Nation: 62500 18701885. Included are popular
American Congress
American Sheet songs, operatic arias, piano music,
Music 18701885 sacred and secular choral music,
solo instrumental music, method
books and instructional materials,
and music for band and orchestra.
This online presentation includes
representative examples of more
than 130 items documenting the
The Library of history of Western music from the
Congress: The medieval period through the modern The Library of
Western music 130
Moldenhauer era including many complete works Congress
Archives and, as a special presentation, an
electronic version of the book's text,
which is intended to replace the
printed edition.
Four complete manuscripts, a
Medieval Music
medieval gradual and three antiphonals from La Trobe University
Database
La Trobe University Library.
Graphical Scores and originating Center for Computer
classical
data Assisted Research in
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Items
MuseData the Humanities
Archangelo Corelli,
complete published works,
Opp. 1-6 (72 works)
Ludwig van Beethoven,
complete symphonies,
selected string quartets
Antonio Vivaldi, concerti
grossi
other works (Bach, Handel,
Haydn, Marcello, Mozart,
Rovetta, Teleman)

Music made and played by

Music Australia Australians. 11318 scores available
National Library of
Australia's Music: Australian music 11318 online, most published before 1930.
Australia
Online, in Time Medium-resolution scans. Click
'print' to get pdf.
Music in the
Manuscripts of Bibliothque
Bibliothque Interuniversitaire
medieval
Interuniversitaire Mdecine of
Mdecine of Montpellier
Montpellier
The Music Library Digital Scores
Collection contains manuscript
Music Library musical scores dating from the 17th
University of
Digital Scores 17-19th century 45 through 19th centuries. The majority
Washington
Collection of the collection is 17th and 18th
century operas, opera excerpts, and
other vocal music.
Online access to high-quality
Music Manuscripts images and descriptions of music The Morgan Library
classical 900
Online manuscripts owned by The Morgan & Museum
Library & Museum.
Music scores by Brazilian Musica Brasilis
Musica Brasilis Brazilian music 1000
composers. initiative [1]
Musical text and the critical
commentaries of the entire Neue
Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the
Internationale
Neue Mozart- Internationale Stiftung Mozart in
Stiftung Mozarteum,
Ausgabe: Mozart cooperation with the Mozart cities
Packard Humanities
Digitized Version of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna.
Institute
A project of the Internationale
Stiftung Mozarteum and The
Packard Humanities Institute.
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Public domain music scores in
Open Music Score classical MusicXML format and provided by Open Music Score
the user community.
The site offers bibliographic
information and digital facsimiles
for selected collections of
manuscript codices, texts,
documents, papers, and leaves held
facsimile, by the University of Pennsylvania's University of
Penn in Hand
manuscripts Rare Book & Manuscript Library in Pennsylvania
the Kislak Center for Special
Collections, Rare Books, and
Manuscripts, as well as those
privately owned by Lawrence J.
Schoenberg (C53, WG56).
Project Gutenberg is the first and
largest single collection of free
electronic books, or eBooks.
Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg
scores, sheet Michael Hart, founder of Project
The Sheet Music Literary Archive
music Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971
Project Foundation
and continues to inspire the creation
of eBooks and related technologies
today.
Raphael Project Renaissance colour photos, not downloadable Raphael Project
A group of libraries working toward
the goal of building an open
collection of digitized sheet music
using the Open Archives
Initiative:Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI:PMH).

Collections Indexed:

Library of Congress, Music

Sheet Music meta-data Division 47,528 records Sheet Music
120300 Rare Book, Manuscript, and Consortium
Consortium harvesting
Special Collections Library,
Duke University 20,157
records
Lilly Library, Indiana
University 17,937 records
Maine Music Box 11,779
records
Lester Levy Collection,
Johns Hopkins University
11,590 records
National Library of
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Name Subject(s) Description Provider(s)
Items
Australia 6,731 records
UCLA Music Library
4,593 records

Scores and books in the public

domain from the Eastman School of
Music at University of Rochester.
Sibley Music 18th-century, Many items are unique to the Sibley University of
8643
Library French, opera Music Library collection. Rochester

Number of Publications in this

collection : 8643
Approximately 75 pieces of lute
Tablature in PDF Wayne Cripps of
lute, tab 75 music available in eps, pdf, midi, or
and PostScript Dartmouth College
tab format.
editions,
manuscripts, Contains prints and editions of
Tomas Luis de UNIVERSIDAD DE
prints, Victoria, as well as Morales and a
Victoria MLAGA
Renaissance, few other Spanish composers.
Victoria
The traditional and folk music here
is categorised into various sections
such as: Bluegrass, Old-time, Old
Country music, Irish, Scottish,
Christian music, Gospel, Worship,
Hymns, Ira D Sanky, Christmas
Music, Celtic, Ballads, Blues, Jazz,
Session Tunes, Carter Family,
Children's Songs etc. Tablature
A Traditional folk music, sheet collections for Guitar & mandolin, Rod Smith
60000
Music Library music Singing lessons, Song writing, (musician)
Chord Charts for piano, guitar,
mandolin & banjo. Downloadable
PDF scores to print sheet music and
MIDI backing tracks for many of
the songs. A complete library of
60000+ pages for musicians, bands,
music teachers, music students or
plain lovers of Real Music as it used
to be.
Vatican Exhibit 23 colour jpegs of Renaissance
Renaissance 23 ibiblio
Main Hall: Music manuscripts.
Ville de Laon: Ville de Laon:
Music from the 9th to 15th
Bibliothque Renaissance Bibliothque
Centuries.
Municipale Municipale
Virtual Music 18th-century, This collection from the University University of North
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Items
Rare Book Room French, opera of North Texas is particularly strong Texas
in eighteenth-century French opera.
The Wiesbaden Codex
(Riesencodex: "giant codex", or
chain codex), is the most
significant legacy of Hildegard of
Bingen (1097/8-1179). This is not
only because of its great scale (481
fols. long, whilst measuring 46x30
Die
The Wiesbaden Hildegard, cm, and weighing 15 kg) very
Landesbibliothek
("Giant") Codex manuscript unusual for mediaeval manuscripts
Wiesbaden ist
but also because it has become for
many the relic and icon of her
spirit (Embach p. 57) through the
centuries. Another reason is the
underlying concept, unheard of at
the time, of a definitive edition of
Hildegards writings.
The Sheet Music Archive is part of
the Werner Icking Music Archive. It
contains ready-to-print sheet music,
Werner Icking Werner Icking Music
sheet music most in the form of PDF files. A
Music Archive Archive
few scores are only available in
compressed Postscript format.
Merged with IMSLP in July 2012.