Music (classical & jazz) & Music Technology: Online Sheet Music and Scores
This guide brings together key Library resources to help you find information relating to classical and jazz and music; including music technology.
Collections of Online Sheet Music and Scores
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A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, art songs and poems. - Nkoda This link opens in a new window
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An app based digital sheet music library available on phones, tablets, laptops or desktops. - Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse volumes I to V of classical music scores library for digital scores dating from the Middle Ages right up to the 21st century.
Online Music and Scores from outside BCU
- Boosey and HawkesSome publishers are putting their scores online, Boosey and Hawkes, being just one.
- British Library Muiscal CollectionsSelections of Musical manuscripts in the Collections of the British Library
- Chopin Online Variorum EditionChopin’s manuscripts and a range of impressions of the first editions of his music.
- Choral Public Domain LibraryCPDL currently hosts free scores of at least 18190 choral and vocal works by at least 2399 composers.
- Early Music OnlineEarly Music Online has digitised over 320 volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, from holdings at the British Library.
- GallicaGallica is the online digitised collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and includes digitised music manuscripts and online recordings.
- IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project).IMSLP currently has 80,085 works, 276,524 scores, 29,836 recordings, 11,117 composers, and 277 performers.
- Internet CulturaleItalian digitised music
- Library of Congress Music Treasures ConsortiumThe Music Treasures Consortium provides 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.
- Wikpedia List of online music databasesWikipedia table of online music databases that are largely free of charge.