Musical Scores
This project provides web access, through digital scanning and descriptive indexing, to a unique collection of rare American music material in the UNC-CH Music Library. The 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project was funded through an Instructional Technology Grant from Chancellor Michael Hooker. 57 volumes (approximately 2250 titles) of sheet music have been indexed. The contents of 32 of these volumes (approximately 1200 pieces) have been fully scanned and are available on this website
Selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook
Not to be confused with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets, usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no music. These were new songs being sung in music halls or new lyrics to familiar songs. Song sheets are an early example of a mass medium and today they offer a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress holds 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The majority of the song sheets were published from the 1850s to the 1870s
Database created by the performing group Arenai Ensemble Vocal from the edition of music they use in their concerts. Each score available in one or more format including HTML, PDF and Finale. Also includes scans of the original facsimile used for the edition, midi files of the performance of the music and links to biographies of the composer
Contains history, facsimile score, and five recordings of the University of Washington fight song, Bow down to Washington
Medieval manuscripts written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221-1284) and are one of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the middle ages. This site includes facsimilies, illuminations, transcriptions, discography, and list of Web resources related to this one
"This website contains information regarding the 1667 edition of John Playford's 'Catch that catch can.'"
Collection of American ragtime sheet music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Chopin Early Editions consists of digitized images of all the music in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection. Users can search or browse Chopin early editions via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers. The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library consists of over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frederic Chopin. The collection, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center, includes first editions of individual works, non-first editions of individual works, and collective editions published before 1881. The site is linked to the Chopin collection register which is updated continuously by listing new acquisitions
An Internet-based free sheet music website which specializes in choral music that is in the public domain and can be freely downloade. Musical scores are available in PDF format, with some titles available in other formats including Midi, Finale, Encore, and Noteworthy. Site also includes MIDI sound files and texts and lyrics, translations, and information about composers--all in the public domain and free to use
Reproduction of the "second edition, enlarged and corected from many grosse errors which were in the former edition" (London : Printed for John Playford, 1653). dance coding to find instances of specific dance figures in juxtaposition with others. Contains 112 dances
Sheet music and original covers of music from the UCLA Music Library's collection of popular songs originally published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Based on the Parma manuscript this edition of Scarlatti's Sonatas presents a free printable version (Postcript) of this music
Digitized facsimile of the Breitkopf & Hartel ed. published in Liepsic after 1806 (original is 20 p. ; 24 x 32 cm.)
Contains a facsimile of the Il primo libro delle musiche a vna, e due voci, biographical information on Francesca Caccini, and bibliographical information on Il primo libro dell musiche
Contains the digital images of scores and concert programs (and some extracts of recordings) for the works of ten Scottish composers, Robert Carver, Sir John of Penicuik Clerk, Hamish MacCunn, John Blackwood McEwen, Edward McGuire, Gordon McPherson, Robin Orr, James Oswald, Francis George Scott, and Ronald Stevenson. Only portions of the pieces are scanned. The scores, programs and recordings form part of the collection of the Scottish Music Information Centre
Catalog of collection containing 244 pieces of sheet music produced in Florida from the late 19th and entire 20th centuries. For each piece of sheet music this catalog contains the scanned cover art and a description that includes first line of lyrics, title, composer, publisher, date, and no. of pages
Digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in the United States between 1850 and 1920 selected from the collections in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. The selection presents a significant perspective on American history and culture. The sheet music chosen for digital reproduction represents a wide variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, Civil War songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil war songs. Piano music includes marches, variations, opera excerpts, and dance music (waltzes, quadrilles, polkas, etc.)
This sheet music collection contains approximately 75 pieces of sheet music owned by the Lewis Music Library. The collection consists of popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art. There are no chronological limits to this collection, although most of the holdings date from approximately 1890-1920. Only music published in the United States is included
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain. The collection can be browsed using 38 topical categories or searched by title, composer, lyricist, cover artist, first lines, publisher, etc
"The CCARH databases have been developed with the goal of providing a secure foundation for research, performance, pedagogy, and virtual editions. All of these needs require a "core work" but each may additionally require data nuances that may not be found in these encodings. By composer, encoding efforts have thus far been focused on music composed in Europe roughly between 1700 and 1825. Sources are easily available for this period. Notational conventions are well understood. Interest on the part of performers, teachers, scholars, and listeners is well established. By repertory, holdings emphasize instrumental works (symphonies, concertos, string quartets, keyboard music) but also include a substantial amount of vocal music (cantatas, operas, and oratorios). All works are complete, and in selected cases variant versions have been encoded."
Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era; included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress
Contains a facsimile and modern editions of the music of Ravenscroft with supporting documentation
Frank Nordberg presents information on Musica Viva, an Internet resource for free sheet music downloads. The music includes pop, rock, jazz, and other modern music
Mutopia is an online project that offers free downloadable sheet music and MIDI files of classical music. Users can perform searches by composer, instruments, and musical style
Contains classical sheet music by popular classical composers
Contains links to a wide variety of online music scores
"A web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts", with visual images drawn from their extensive archival collections. "It presents a searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections."
"This archive contains several thousand sheets of music, mainly classical music, contemporary music and some jazz-tunes."
Collection of traditional tunes, and new tunes in traditional styles including Scots, Irish, Scandinavian, French, Balkan and more
Contains a facsimile of the original manuscript with supporting documents and advice on how to approach the manuscript
Online collection of over 200 sheet-music compositions that reflect Lincoln and the Civil War as seen through popular music. The collection, compiled by Alfred Whital Stern (1881-1960), spans the years from the 1859 Lincoln presidential campaign to the centenary of his death in 1909
Presents new editions of seventeenth-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially
Features a collection of ready-to-print PDF files of classical music, MusiXTex and related music typesetting programs, e-mail list information and archives for Tex-music and list of other free sheet music sites
Database containing a catalog of the 620 bound volumes of music in the Wighton Collection of Scottish music, housed at the the Local Studies Suite of the Central Library of Dundee, Scotland. The database is searchable by keyword
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