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Scores Available for free on the Internet
There is an ever increasing number of free sheet music sites on the web. The music is to be found in a wide variety of file formats so make sure you have the software to read the music. The best examples are usually available in PDF (Acrobat readable), Sibelius (free Scorch plug in), Finale (free Notepad). There are other more software specific sites utilizing a wide range of different formats. Go to Gordon Callon's Music Software page for links to most music software web pages.
Sites with links to free scores...
| Gordon Callon's Acadia University Online Scores list | Freesheetmusic.net (Free Scores Listings) |
| Sheet Music Collections (Music Library Association) | Sheet Music Consortium (A very useful annotated list of sheet music collections) |
| Songs and Music (British Columbia Digital Library) |
Free Scores with the larger more generic collections first...
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International Music Score Library Project
(based on Wikipedia - 30000+ scores and rising!) |
Werner Icking Music
Archive (Now linked to IMSLP but still some interesting links) |
| Europeana is the EU's major digitizing effort. Lots of music. | The Duben Project of the University of Uppsala. A major project in digitizing the university's collection for public research access |
| Choral Public Domain Library
Enormous resource (8500+ pages) |
Musical Scores at the University of Rochester (great collection of pre-copyright editions. Very large but now part of its general online catalogue and thus you have to search to find what's electronically available) |
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Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Danish Royal Library)
(Facsimiles and digitized modern editions) |
Kern Scores is a library of virtual scores in the Humdrum "kern" data format but also in xml and convertible to Sibelius or Score(21,042 files) |
| Mutopia Project Gutenberg for sheet music (c.200 composers) |
VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores
(Bach through Debussy Scores) |
| Choral Scores Download (6000+ Scores gateway) | Baroquemusic.it is as you'd expect filled with good things. |
| Dangerous Graces - Works by Lodovico Agostini, Giovanni Alcarotti, Girolamo Belli, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Francesco Manara, Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni Agostino Veggio, Paolo Virchi, Giaches de Wert |
Digital Scores (Harvard University Eda Kuhn Music Library Project) - Bach Family, Mozart and Verdi so far. |
| Chopin Early Editions An exhaustive site of the early editions of Chopin's keyboard works. Many of his publications were issued at the same time in different cities and are not entirely consistent posing interesting problems for researchers and interpreters. |
FreeScores.com This has a very wide selection of works including much of the 18th and 19th century orchestral repertoire. Excellent |
| Julliard Manuscript Collection | Bicinium. Two part didactic music chiefly from the Renaissance |
| The Clarinet Institute of Los Angeles: You guessed it! Lots of music for clarinet in all sorts of combinations | Domine: Trio de Guitarras. Argentinian free guitar scores site (Spanish) |
| All Piano Sheet Music | The Violin Site. Free violin sheet music |
| Hymnary.org. 4900+ hymnals with over 20,000 tunes. Searchable |
Iglesia Católica de
Puerto Rico, Diocesis de Ponce Cantoral: Choral music online from Puerto Rico. A rich port for choral scores. (Spanish) |
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MusicAustralia Scores Online Mostly pre-1930s Australian compositions. 2000+ scores |
Loeb Music Library Digital Scores and Libretti (Harvard University Music Library collection |
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NMA Online
- Neue Mozart-Ausgabe : Digitized Version "The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe". (German) |
G.F. Handel. The Chrysander Edition online at the Bavarian State Library (German) |
| Jean Baptiste Lully Collection | Tomas Luis de Victoria. This site has the complete works in a new Lilypond edition and facsimiles of almost everything plus those of Francisco Guerrero and Cristobal de Morales. Great site! |
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Charles H. Templeton Ragtime Sheet Music Collection Digital Library Collection of the Mississippi State University Libraries. |
Printed Music. National Library of Australia |
| Musopen open source free music collection. Mainly 19th century | The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. |
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Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920
Over 3000 pieces of sheet music from Duke University via the Library of Congress. Mainly song but quite a lot of other things too! |
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads |
| Muzik's Handmaide - 8 free choral scores | Sheetmusic / Bladmuziek - Mainly Baroque scores |
| The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music | The Sheet Music Archive - Two downloads per day |
| Sibelius Music. Wide range of material of varying quality both free and for purchase using the Scorch interface. | www.easybyte.org This is a site of simple keyboard arrangements suitable for teaching purposes. |
If you have a site worth adding to this list please email me