Electronic Scores

Most of these sources are freely available on the Web, with some use restrictions, and can be downloaded with software such as Adobe.

• African American Sheet Music
  From Brown University and one of the largest collections of sheet music in the country, focusing on 19th-century music by and relating to African Americans.
• American Memory Project
  “Performing Arts, Music” contains a variety of links to digitized scores and sound files relating to American music.
• American Viola Project
  Electronic scores for viola music by American composers.
• Art Song Central
  Public domain sheet music for singers and voice teachers.
• Choral Public Domain Library
  One of the world’s largest free sheet music sites with over 8,000 scores.
• Corsair: The Pierpont Morgan Library Digitized scores from one of the world’s best music manuscript collections.
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Portal Page
  “The IMSLP is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. Since its launch on February 16, 2006, more than 22,000 scores, for 12,000 works, by over 1,200 composers have been uploaded, making it one of the largest public domain music score collections on the web. The project uses MediaWiki software to provide contributors with a familiar interface.”
• Mutopia Project
  A variety of classical music, with .pdf and MIDI files. 911 pieces of music are now available.
• O’Neill’s Music Of Ireland
  Celtic sheet music; over 1850 tunes.
• Sheet Music Consortium
  Sheet music collections from several libraries including UCLA, Duke, Indiana, and Johns Hopkins.
• Variations
  A test project of scores digitized for the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University.
• WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
  Free sheet music files from the RAMA (Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus) Music Archives in Denmark.