Music

The Library of Congress classification number M1.A1 includes music printed or 'copied in manuscript' in the United States or the colonies through 1820. As an early record of musical life in America and the colonies, this classification number holds many interesting popular and topical pieces.

The Digital Library Program & The Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. Digitized materials from the Hoagy Carmichael Collection.

American popular songs in the form in which they were originally published. From UCLA's Performing Arts Special Collections.

Part of the Library of Congress American Memory series of digital collections.

Part of the Library of Congress American Memory series of digital collections.

This site searches the digital sheet music collections of UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University

A unique collection of American music material in the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library.

A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900 and related materials. University of California, Berkeley

The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin.

Began in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.

Opera and musical theatre scores (G&S, Kern, Sousa, Herbert) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (The link takes you to the Internet Archive).

Online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

The Mozart complete works edition (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe) in digital form.

Selected works from the Music and Theatre collections in digital form.

Public domain scores in various online formats.

Digital collection of early opera scores, particularly Lully and other French composers.

A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts . The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1500, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. Access is free to anyone, but you must register.