IMSLP:Other music score websites

Website lists and guides

• Online sources topic on the IMSLP forums
• Another List of sites
• Site index
• Another guide
• Harvard University
• Duke University
• A list at UCLA
• Another at Duke
• Free Sheet Music Webring
• Sheet music section at dmoz
• The European Library
• Manuscriptorium
• Extensive list at Pianopassion.com

Universities and Libraries

• Digital archives of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn
• Mozarteum

Complete online edition of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (New Mozart Complete Edition)!

• Schubert Online

Large collection of Schubert autographs. Watermarked.

• Bergen public library

Grieg scores (Manuscripts)

• Bavarian State Library.

Fast-growing collection of scores, among which several Gesamtausgaben (Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn).

• Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Offerered by Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Click 'Suche' to see the search form in German. (distributing not allowed)

• SLUB Dresden

Instrumental music for the Dresdener Hofkapelle (Quantz, Telemann, Graun)

• Sibley Music Library at Rochester University Massive collections of pdfs. (5800+)
• European-American University, Henselt Archive (Piano Music)
• American
• Variations Project at Indiana University low-resolution scans. Also see the IMSLP information page for the VARIATIONS project.
• University of Chicago Scans of early Chopin editions.

• [1] maybe there is more to find on the search page

• Virtual Rare Book Room at University of North Texas. Baroque first editions / manuscripts.
• Library of Congress Music Department

• Combined Search Page for the collections at LOC
• List of Sheet Music Collections

• Music For The Nation High resolution TIFs of classical and popular music.
• Moldenhauer collection

• Tri-college Digital Music Initiative small collection of djvu scans and recordings of classical music.
• University of Michigan
• University of North Carolina Digitized Sheet Music. Low resolution.
• University of Auburn Piano Bench American Music
• Azalia Hackley Collection American Music
• Charles H. Templeton Museum Popular American Music
• MIT - Lewis Music Library Popular American Sheet Music
• New York Public Library American sheet music
• New York Public Library Popular American Music
• Sheet Music Consortium This websites groups the four following sheet music sites with popular American music:

• Indiana University Sheet Music Vast collection of American Sheet Music
• Indiana State University - Cunningham Library Kirk Collection of dance band / stage orchestra (scores and parts)
• UCLA Digital Library Sheet Music Project popular American sheet music
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music popular American music at Johns Hopkins University.
• Historic American Sheet Music collection at Duke University

• Hoagy Carmichael Collection American songs
• NEWUniversity of Colorado Songs relating to Colorado, and also Ragtime.
• California Sheet Music Project popular 19th-century music
• Juilliard Manuscript Collection
• The Maine Music Box 22,000 titles of mostly American sheet music.
• Juilliard School Digital Resources

Juilliard Manuscript Collection - flash

• University of Illinois - at archive.org
• Australian
• Australia's Music Online Large collection of medium-resolution scans. Click 'print' to get pdf.
• National Library of Australia
• European
• The European Library - search the catalogues of tens of European national en university libraries.

Digitized collections do not always show up in the results - go to Browse collections by subject.

• Royal library of Belgium.
• England
• Loeb Music Library at Harvard. Bach, Mozart, Verdi.
• German
• Brahms Institut - watermarked Brahms early editions
• Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt
• French
• Bibliothèque de Toulouse
• Gallica, the digital Bibliothèque National de France pdf's of french composers

• Philidor, a Sheet music subsection

• Netherland
• Nederlands Muziekinstituut Netherlands Library. Flash-based, counts only one project so far.
• Nordic
• Music Library of Sweden
• Danish Royal Library a pdf collection (4000+) of mostly Danish composers.
  • use this search page
  • or this list
• Italian
• Internet Culturale -Italian digitised libraries
• Polish
• Polish national library - Chopin collection
• Portuguese
• Biblioteca nacional de portugal Go to: Biblioteca nacional digital, search:musica manuscrita
• Other
• The Internet Archive Some sheet music, hidden between other texts.
• Mike's Private Piano Music Archive small collection of scans.

Sheet Music Projects

Original Typeset Sheet Music Providers

• Mutopia Retypeset Scores
• Choral Public Domain Library Collection of Choral Music in various formats
• Werner Icking Music Archive also known as WIMA. (distributing not allowed)
• Gutenberg:The Sheet Music Project Typeset scores.
• Free Sheetmusic.org Dutch, retypeset
• Web Library Of Seventeenth-Century Music 14 retypeset scores
• Some public lilypond files at the homepage of Han-Wen Nienhuys, the creator of lilypond.
• Open-Scores A score retypeset project by Horndude77
• Old music typeset by Johan Tufvesson
• German site with typeset scores
• MusicaStorica early and forgotten music - free distribution allowed
• Baroque and pre-classic music typeset by Mario Bolognani (distributing not allowed)
• Acadia Early Music Archive
• Steve Hendricks Music Collection (early music)
• Old Music Project
• Archiv der Kreuznacher-Diakonie-Kantorei
• Brass chamber music arranged by Jay Lichtman Hartford University. "All sheet music may be freely distributed without restriction."
• Fabio Machado Arrangements and retypeset scores (mainly for Mandolin) and some scores from other websites.
• HymnWiki Typeset hymn scores (mostly PDF, Midi, and LilyPond source files)
• Música del Sur Southamerican music scores on line (guitar, piano, orchestra and chamber music)

Original Scanned Music Providers

• Site with scans used by the Sheet Music Project of Gutenberg Completely on IMSLP.
• CCARH Scores of Bach, Händel, Mozart, Vivaldi. Hold off until further notice.
• Piano.ru Very large collection, partly russian. Some knowledge of cyrillic script is welcome.
• classic.chubrik.ru mp3s and pdfs.
• alenmusic.narod.ru A lot of scores, use the url to decrypt. Very slow download.
• Tarakanov.net A lot here:Russian and international music
• musicologie.org
• Forgotten and Negelected Piano Masterworks. Some rare scores, available on request.
• Partituras oboe Oboe works. Contains copyrighted works.
• bh2000 - Already entirely on IMSLP
• Classical-Sheet-Music.eu
• Art Song Central Scores for piano and voice, primarily Art Song
• Quatre Mains.net Piano 4h scans
• Creative Guitar.org A site similar to IMSLP for PD guitar sheet music, contains complete works for Napolean Coste
• Band Music PDF Library - Works in the public domain in the United States. Scores and parts included.

Secondary Collections

• Sheetmusicfox.com Is reported to contain scores from SMA but not limited to 2 dl per day.
• free-scores.com A big collection that consists of copies of other sites (e.g. IMSLP)
• Books.google.com - most scores only accessible in USA
• A Brazilian School - (need more info on name)
• Scribd - sheet music on Scribd
• Argencello cello music
• Zampo cello music
• Violin music

Not yet ordened

• Musicaviva Over 1000 titles and wellorganized links
• Bibliothèque numérique de partitions de musique Clavecin, Organ, Piano, Luth, Gitar, Facsimile ca.1300 scores. Beautiful baroque organmusic editions !
• Pian e forte Piano, and 1 instrument+ piano. Preview of the first bars
• The Music Library of Denis Bouriakov - Questionable Public Domain-ness on some pieces - site closed permanently
• Bach Cantatas - entirely from bh200 and BGA, therefore, entirely uploaded onto IMSLP already.
• Various Scores on a site of Tomás Luis de Victoria
• 8Notes.com
• Rowy.net
• Music-scores.com
• Pianopublicdomain.com Log-in is required, haven't tried it yet.
• El-atril (low resolution scores)
• Allpianosheet Commercial. Some free files.
• An Ukrainian Music Library
• Classical Scores.com
• The Hymns and Carols of Christmas Public domain scans of christmas music and hymns.
• Musica Erudita Virtual library of free scores.
• Free Sheet Music.de Piano Music
• Macdowell Music at Wellesley College
• Big collection of scores of piano music by Alkan.
• Abraham Espinosa's Site
• Nissimo.com
• Conservatoire de Musique et de Danse de Grand-Couronne
• pianosociety.com
• Roisman.narod.ru
• The Cobbett Library
• (decamp.net) Classical Sheet Music for Guitar
• Integral Music by Mauro Giulini
• lykhin Another Russian One
• Zekaban
• Dmitry Ralko
• Kreusch Sheet Music - original scans?
• Clarinet Institute
• partita.ru - wind music
• Walter Cosand
• Music for Contrabass or 日本語訳

Commercial providers of public domain music

• CD Sheet Music
• Elibron
• EveryNote
• Pianostreet Scanned PD works BUT copyrighted editions too.
• Allpianosheetmusic
• Classicaland
• Load.cd
• BNote
• The Sheet Music Archive, also known as SMA, subscription site with a few freely accessible scores. Most of the content nowadays is taken from IMSLP.

Other resources

• A Directory of National Libraries There should be a lot to find here...
• SibeliusMusic the Scorch plugin is required. Lots of Free and non free scores, they can't be downloaded, but only viewed or printed
• Finale Showcase. Lots of Free free scores in .MUS format; Finale, or the free version Finale Reader is required
• Pianofiles Sheet music trading forum
• Hoffmeister Monatsbericht

Monthly publication 1829-1900 giving details of publisher issues of over 330,000 titles.