Online Collections of Music Scores

Miami users can access Library Music Source to find music scores for a variety of instruments. Off-campus access requires a Miami Unique ID & password. The resources listed below are all publicly available.

• 19th Century American Sheet Music (UNC, Chapel Hill)
• 19th Century California Sheet Music
• African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920 (Brown University)
• Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection (Mississippi State University)
• Chopin Early Editions (University of Chicago)
• The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University): digitized string quartet parts from rare or unique publications. Includes compositions by Mozart, Pleyel, Spohr, Fesca, Rossini, Weber, and others.
• Digital Scores from the Collections of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Harvard University)
• Digitale Bibliothek: Das Munchener Digitalisierungszentrum (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek): includes Handel-Gesellschaft.
• Ignaz Pleyel Early Editions (Iowa Digital Library): Early print and manuscript scores, mostly chamber and keyboard music, published during the composer's lifetime.
• IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (Indiana University)
• Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection (MIT)
• Juilliard Manuscript Collection
• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
• Library of Congress Collections
  • Library of Congress: African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920
  • Library of Congress: America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
  • Library of Congress: Band Music from the Civil War Era
  • Library of Congress: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
  • Library of Congress: Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 (from Duke University)
  • Library of Congress: Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
  • Library of Congress: Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
  • Library of Congress: The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives
  • Library of Congress: "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
• Musical Scores (Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music)
• Musical Scores from the University of Illinois Music Library
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• NMA Online: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version (Digital Mozart Edition: A Project of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and The Packard Humanities Institute): includes both the music and critical commentary volumes of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
• Schubert Manuskripte (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)
• Sheet Music Consortium: Sheet Music on the Web (UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University)
• Sheet Music Collections Online (University of Chicago's Portal)
• University of California, Los Angeles Digital Archive: Popular American Music
• University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
• VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores (Indiana University)
• Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFaMusik)
• Yiddish Sheet Music: A Brown University Library Digital Collection