LibGuides: Music Resources: Free Online Music Resources

Free Online Music Resources

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)/Petrucci Library
Scores and recordings from the public domain
Classical Net
Various types of resources about classical music
MusRef
Bibliographies of music and dance reference works
Musopen
Compilation of free recordings, sheet music, and textbooks about music
Harvard Music Library Pinboard
A Pinboard of websites with music resources
Themefinder
Database that allows music to be searched for by theme

Sibley Music Library: Musical Scores
A collection of scores from the Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library
Sheet Music Consortium
Compilation of sheet music collections from various libraries
Contemporary Music Score Collection, UCLA Music Library
UCLA's collection of contemporary music scores
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
A Johns Hopkins University collection that contains over 30,000 popular American music pieces from 1870 onward
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
A Mississippi State University collection with over 22,000 pieces
Historic American Sheet Music Collection
A Duke University collection that holds American sheet music from 1850 until 1920
NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version
Musical text and critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Choral Public Domain Library
A wiki that contains free choral scores
Brown University Sheet Music Collections
Three collections from Brown University: African American Sheet Music (1820-1920), World War I Sheet Music, and Yiddish American Sheet Music
The Mutopia Project
Free sheet music in the public domain
Art Song Central
Free sheet music for singers and voice teachers

Music Division Digital Collections
Digital collections from the Library of Congress's Music Division
National Jukebox
Historical sound recordings presented by the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
Music Treasures Consortium
Digitized music manuscripts and print materials from various music archives
Notated Music
Digitized notated music from the Library of Congress

New York Philharmonic Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Archives
Programs, scores, images, and business documents from the New York Philharmonic
Morgan Library & Museum: Music Manuscripts Online
Digitized music manuscripts from the Morgan Library & Museum
The LiederNet Archive
Archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works
Early Music Online
Digitized 16th-century printed music from the British Library
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
Images and metadata of medieval music manuscripts
Traditional Tune Archive
Index of North American, British, and Irish traditional music
The Folk Song Index
Folk song index that was put together by Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out!
Libretto Portal
Digitized librettos from the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek and the German Historic Institute in Rome
Raccolta Drammatica
Digitized librettos from the Braidense National Library in Milan