Scores Databases
- Music and Dance Online from Alexander St. Press This link opens in a new windowAvailable with your Multnomah County Library card, this database contains a Classical Scores Library with more than 400,000 pages of music (full, study, piano, and vocal scores). Once within the resource, look for the Collections section of the screen and within it, Music Online: Classical Scores Library.
Scores Online
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library This link opens in a new windowThe International Music Score Library Project/Petrucci Music Library makes freely available close to 400,000 scores or parts, representing 120,000 works. Includes some manuscripts.
- Library of Congress: Notated MusicClose to 100,000 musical scores, most of them available online, from a 15th century polyphonic chansonnier through the twentieth century.
- Sheet Music ConsortiumIncludes the digitized sheet music collections of over 20 libraries around the world. To view scores online, use the advanced search and select "Limit to Digitized Sheetmusic Only."
Manuscripts Online
- DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music)Archive of more than 14,000 manuscript sources of medieval music; images are available for more than 700 of them. Free registration is required to view images.
- Harvard University's Digital Scores and Libretti Virtual Collection"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, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School." Limit to high-quality images of scores by selecting "Limit search to records that have digital objects."
- Morgan Library's Score CollectionThe Morgan Library's Score Collection provides online access to high-quality images and descriptions of music manuscripts. Since the project began in 2007, more than 900 manuscripts have been added.
- Chansonniers of Medieval FranceProvides "links to complete online facsimiles of the best-known French medieval" chansonniers, with additional links to related resources.
- Copenhagen Chansonnier and the 'Loire Valley' ChansonniersAn open access project by a Danish musicologist providing free access to "new, fully texted and annotated editions of the songs transmitted by the Copenhagen chansonnier and of the concordant versions in the other ‘Loire Valley’ chansonniers."
