Note Sheet music from the Internet! How What Where? (Part 2)

The Internet is full of interesting things; for example, many sheet music, even non-saleable ones! But where and how can you find them?

Composer Collections:

• Beethoven – Over 260 pieces of music: Symphonies, concerts, chamber music, songs, folk song arrangements and much more
• Brahms
  • Brahms-Institut – First and early prints of the works of Johannes Brahms
  • Brahms-Institut – The extensive series of musical works dedicated to Brahms
• brittenproject.org – Sheet music and manuscripts (beta version)
• Bruckner – First issues Old Complete Edition
• Chopin –
  • Chopin annotated catalogue –  First editions and later impressions of the original publishers or their successors
  • Chopin early editions – 400 first and early printed issues
  • Chopin editions in Poland – 16 volumes of Chopin’s piano music
  • Chopin first editions – About 5’500 scans with comments
  • Chopin Information Centre – Biographical information; transcriptions of his letters; indices of compositions, manuscript sources and first editions
  • Chopin Variorum – Chopin-related research projects
• Graupner Works  – Contains links to his digitized manuscripts at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Handel – 105 titles published by Breitkopf & Härtel between 1885 and 1902
• Liszt – Complete edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig
• Mendelssohn – 162 titles published by Breitkopf & Härtel
• Monteverdi – Scherzi musicali (1632)
• Mozart – New Mozart edition to be used for personal study and education
• Nazareth, Ernesto – Works available for download
• Nielsen Catalogue – 446 titles, Danish Center for Music Processing (DCM)
• Pleyel – Over 200 early printed scores and manuscripts
• Rovetta – Madrigali, Libro Secondo (1640)
• Schubert – Published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1884-1892, 53 volumes
• Schumann
  • Schumann –The works were edited by Clara Schumann and others. This series was published in Leipzig by Breitkopf & Härtrel between 1881 and 1893
  • Schumann – First -and early prints
• Valentini
  • Valentini – Secondo libro de Madrigali (Venice, 1616)
  • Valentini – Musiche concertate (Venice, 1619)

Digitized Sheet Music – General Collections (A-Z):

• Acadia – Early Music Archive
• American Music –
  • 19th-Century California Sheet Music – About 2’700 works
  • African American Sheet Music – 250’000 available works
  • American Sheet Music 1870-85 – Over 47’000 pieces of music
  • American Sheet Music 1815-1945 – 7’471 pieces
  • Archiv of Popular American Music – 450’000 titles
  • Historic American Sheet Music – 3’051 titles between 1850 and 1920, searchable by theme, instrumentation, illustrator and other common parameters
• Bavarian State Library – 6’880 printed music
• Berlin State Library  – 6’270 digitized sheet music
• Hispanic Digital Library  – 27,794 digitized printed music
• classicalsheetmusicgratis.org – mostly for violin, viola or cello, alone or as chamber music
• CMME Project – a scientific initiative, free online access to new, high-quality sheet music
• Monuments of German musical art – Among others Stamitz, Hassler, Pachelbel, Pez, Steffani, Toeschi; 36 titles (1901-1926)
• Gaspari Online – Sheet music, correspondence, musical instruments and portraits of musicians
• imslp.org – Petrucci Music Library, currently 375’295 sheet music available
• Irish Sheet Music Archives – Users can limit the collection by filtering articles in the public domain (published before 1923) to view free online scores. Currently 3’570 articles
• Johan Tufvesson’s Scores – Music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Josquin Research Project – Polyphonic music ca. 1420 – 1520. The JRP also offers analysis tools that can be used
• Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection – Over 29’000 pieces of American folk music. The collection covers the years 1780 to 1980
• Mills Music Library – thousands of published notes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Music treasures – Classical music, choir music, salon music, popular songs and arrangements
• oldmusicproject.com – A lot of old music as PDF or MIDI
• Sibley School of Music – At present 22’444 scores. A large part of the stock dates from the 19th and early 20th century
• Single Interface for Music – Links materials from the shelves of libraries and museums around the world in a single digital forum
• Steve Hendricks Collection – Much early music in PDF format. The only restriction is that recording or selling this music is not allowed without explicit permission.
• violinsheetmusic.org – Offers free downloads of printable music in PDF format. The music is scanned from public domain editions.
• Whats-the-score.org – In collaboration between the Bodleian Library (Oxford University) and Google. The number of scanned pages is about 40’000.
• William and Gayle Cook Music Library – Designed primarily for online display, not for printing
• Opera Literature
• Song Literature
• Orchestral and Choral Literature
• Online scores: Chamber Music Literature
• Online scores: Piano Literature
• Solo Instrumental Literature
• WLSCM – Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
• World War Sheet Music – This collection in the Library of Congress contains nearly 14,000 articles, all of which are fully digitized. The materials include not only traditional prints, but also privately published and unpublished material
• World Digital Library – Provides free access to manuscripts, rare books, photographs and other important cultural documents from all countries Yiddish Sheet Music – Part of the large Sheet Music Collection in the John Hay Library. The digital collection consists of public domain (pre-1923) titles

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Important: The libraries and directories mentioned above provide access to works that may be protected by copyright. We do not assume any liability for possible copyright infringements.

Photo: By Elias Gottlob Haussmann – http://www.jsbach.net/bass/elements/bach-hausmann.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1270015