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Scores Available for free on the Internet
There is an ever increasing number of free sheet music sites on the web. The music is to be found in a wide variety of file formats so make sure you have the software to read the music. The best examples are usually available in PDF (Acrobat readable), Sibelius (free Scorch plug in), Finale (free Notepad). There are other more software specific sites utilising a wide range of different formats. Go to Gordon Callon's Music Software page for links to most music software web pages.
| Gordon Callon's Acadia University Online Scores list | Choral Public Domain Library - enormous resource (8500+ pages) |
| Mutopia: Project Gutenberg for sheet music (c.200 composers) | freesheetmusic.net (Free Scores Listings) |
| Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920 3,042 pieces of sheet music from Duke University via the Library of Congress. Mainly song but quite a lot of other things too! | FreeScores.com This has a very wide selection of works including much of the 18th and 19th century orchestral repertoire. Excellent |
| All Piano Sheet Music (600+ scores) | Muzik's Handmaide - 8 free choral scores |
| The Sheet Music Archive - Two downloads per day | Sheetmusic / Bladmuziek - Mainly Baroque scores |
| Dangerous Graces - Works by Lodovico Agostini, Giovanni Alcarotti, Girolamo Belli, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Francesco Manara, Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni Agostino Veggio, Paolo Virchi, Giaches de Wert | Chopin Early Editions An exhaustive site of the early editions of Chopin's keyboard works. Many of his publications were issued at the same time in different cities and are not entirely consistent posing interesting problems for researchers and interpreters. |
| The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (7 Scores) | VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores
(Bach through Debussy Scores) |
| Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Danish Royal Library) (Facsimiles and digitised modern editions) | Werner Icking Music Archive (This is an amazing site from Denmark with hundreds of works) |
| The Duben Project of the University of Uppsala. A major project in digitising the university's collection for public research access | International Music Score Library Project (based on Wikipedia - 3000+ scores) |
| Kern Scores is a library of virtual scores in the Humdrum "kern" data format but also in xml and convertable to Sibelius or Score(21,042 files) | New Music Database: American Concert Music since 1980 |
| Sheet Music Consortium (A very useful annotated list of sheet music collections) | Digital Scores (Harvard University Eda Kuhn Music Library Project) - Bach Family, Mozart and Verdi so far. |
| Musical Scores at the University of Rochester (great collection of pre-copyright editions. Very large) | Sheet Music Collections (Music Library Association) |
| Songs and Music (British Columbia Digital Library) | Julliard Manuscript Collection |
If you have a site worth adding to this list please email me