Online Scores
American Music Center
This is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 57,000 works
by more than 6,000 composers, and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).
Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA)
This edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach was published in a series of 46 volumes from 1851-1899, by the Bach-Gesellschaft and Breitkopf & Härtel. This is also available in print in our library (M3 B1133 1968)
Classic Scores Library
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works.
The Classical String Quartet collection from Duke University
This collection features rare and unusual string quartets not available in modern editions from the Duke University Special Collections
Early Music Online
Early Music Online is a pilot project in which 300 of the world’s earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library, have been digitised and made freely available online.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
This is a large collection of public domain scores and sheet music and also includes music by composers who are willing to share their music without charge
Loeb Music Library Digital Scores and Libretti
The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers
Music Scores Collection from the Sibley Music Library
A Collection of Books and Scores from the Eastman School of Music. Many of these scores are unique to the Sibley Music Collection
NMA (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version)
The DME is the online version of the New Mozart Edition (Neue
Mozart-Ausgabe, NMA) which is located in the Music and Media library (M3 M9 1955)
Online Resources for Music Scolars
From Harvard College, this is a great list of digital scores and other online resources
The Wiesbaden ("Giant") Codex (Hildegard of Bingen)
ScorSer
A Search Engine for public domain scores and other music files.