The hard copy of sheet music will be produced in-many versions according to its arrangement of musical instruments (piano version, orchestral version, string quartet, and other different musical instruments) or types of scores (full score, miniature score, performance score, orchestra set score etc.)
The collection of various musical scores in this library is used as music learning resources for teachers and students to understand how music is written down and performed. The collection is organized based on different score formats:
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| 10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants |
Chronologically, these rare primary sources span a period of great paleographical change from the tenth through seventeenth centuries: from poorly executed fragments to exquisitely crafted codices, these materials vary in format and size, from single leaves to entire books – both pocket-sized and immense choir books measuring over three feet tall. |
| Aaron Copland Collection |
These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through the 1950s, and were selected from Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs. |
| American Choral Music at the Library of Congress |
The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. The music selected reflects the diversity of choral music in the collections written during the later nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and includes accompanied music, a cappella, sacred and secular music, and works for mixed choirs, for women's and men's ensembles, and for children's choruses. |
| Elliott Carter Collection at the Library of Congress |
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was one of the most innovative American composers of the twentieth century. An extensive collection of his holograph scores and sketches are available in the Library of Congress, with a portion of these sketches available online for researchers. |
| Ernest Bloch Collection at the Library of Congress |
Nineteen early manuscript compositions by composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) are featured, spanning the period from 1896 to 1916, and comprising a portion of the Ernest Bloch Collection at the Library of Congress. |
| Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress |
This collection was created to mark the bicentennial of the birth of composer Felix Mendelssohn on February 3, 2009. The Library of Congress’s Music Division is one of the world's major repositories of primary source material related to the composer. |
| Moldenhauer Archives |
The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift of musical documents ever received by the Library. |
| Music Treasures Consortium |
The Music Treasures Consortium is an alliance of many libraries with holdings of unique music resources. This consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship. |
| Samuel Barber at the Library of Congress |
The Library of Congress is the preeminent repository for manuscripts by American composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981), one of the most frequently performed and recorded American composers of the twentieth century. Numerous music manuscripts and printed scores by Barber, as well as correspondence, videos, and sound recordings of his works can be found throughout the library's collections. |
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| Archive of Seventeenth-Century Italian Madrigals and Arias (ASCIMA) |
This archive contains critical editions of seventeenth-century Italian madrigals and arias, together with introductions to the editions in Italian, German and English, and translations of the texts into English and German. |
| Cambridge Digital Library - Music |
One of the most important collections of manuscript music in the Cambridge Digital Library is the group of nine lute manuscripts copied by Mathew Holmes in the early years of the seventeenth century. |
| Chopin Early Editions |
The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center. |
| Contemporary Music Score Collection, UCLA Music Library |
Published by the UCLA Music Library on eScholarship, the Contemporary Music Score Collection includes digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. |
| Juilliard Manuscript Collection |
The c ollection comprises 140 items, including manuscripts, sketches and first editions. |
| Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection |
Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, this collection contains over 29,000 pieces of popular American music, spanning the period 1780-1980. Indexed by subject, composer and publisher. Images of the cover and each page of the music are available if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain. |
| Music Online. Classical Scores Library |
The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. |
| University of North Texas Virtual Music Rare Book Room |
The UNT Music Library's Virtual Music Rare Book Room is composed primarily of digitized materials held in the Edna Mae Sandborn Music Rare Book Room. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth-century French opera, due in large part to the influence of musicologist Lloyd Hibberd on the development of the collection. In addition to holdings from the UNT Music Library, the Music Virtual Rare Book Room also contains items borrowed from private collectors and scanned with permission. |
| Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online |
The collection includes scores and books in the public domain, and many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection. |
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| Bach Digital |
Bach Digital is a large, detailed, powerful database , serving as a reliable tool for exploring constantly updated research findings on Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in his family. Bach D igital provides complete, high-resolution scans of compositions, including 90 percent of J.S. Bach’s works . |
| Beethovenhaus Bonn. Digital Archives |
Provides scanned images of manuscripts and early editions of Beethoven’s works, as well as letters, photographs, and other related documents. |
| Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum |
A large digital collection that includes many manuscripts and editions of musical books and scores. Contains the complete Handel Works, Liszt Musical works, Mendelssohn Works , and many other scores. |
| Chopin Online |
Includes digitized imagesand early printed editions of Chopin's compositions. |
| Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire |
KRONOS presents a free library of fifty contemporary works designed to guide string quartets in developing and refining the skills required for the performance of 21st-century repertoire. |
| Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music |
Measuring Polyphony is a database of digital encodings of over sixty polyphonic motets from several manuscripts copied in the fourteenth century. |
| Medieval Music Digital Archive (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music-DIAMM |
A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts. The music and the manuscripts date from approximately 800 to 1500, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. Access is free to anyone, with registration required. |
| Morgan Library & Museum Music Manuscripts Online |
Music Manuscripts Online provides access to a selection of more than 700 digitized music manuscripts from the Morgan’s collections, for study and enjoyment. |
| New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives |
The collection currently comprises more than four million pages, including printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs. |
| SCHUBERT Online |
Manuscripts, letters, and prints of Franz Schubert from the Austrian Academy of Sciences are included in the collection. |
| Tasso in Music Project |
Representing the works of over 200 composers from a variety of geographic areas and with different musical styles. |
| The Josquin Research Project |
Search, browse, and analyze scores of polyphonic music from approximately 1420 to 1520. |
| Ircam centre pompidou |
The vocation of IRCAM’s resource center is to compile and diffuse reference corpuses on contemporary music, art , science, technology relationships, and musical research. All the institute’s knowledge and creation can be found in the resource center: archives of concerts and conferences, scores, scholarly scientific articles , popular science articles, and more. |
| Open Museum |
The Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures adheres to an open-minded philosophy, breaking down the barriers and limitations of physical museums. It enables the free circulation and mutual enrichment of collections and knowledge online. |
| The Online Database of Taiwanese Musicians |
This database collects, organizes, and preserves textual, visual, artistic, literary, and audiovisual materials related to Taiwanese music. It integrates existing databases, research projects, and relevant publications within the institution to provide the public with foundational information on significant figures in Taiwanese music. |
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