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Music Scores Online: Getting Started

About This Guide

Welcome to Finding Musical Scores Online!

This guide contains information and links to several sites that have large and/or special digitized music collections. Some sites restrict usage and downloading, so be sure to read any notices of "Conditions of Use" which may be posted on a particular site.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library

Classical Scores Library (Music Online)
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Digitized cores to support teaching and research in Western classical music. This multivolume series contains more than 53,000 titles (many still in copyright) by more than 4,600 composers, and 1.3 million printable pages scores from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.

Classical Scores Library LibGuide
See the LibGuide for more information about content and searching in the Classical Scores Library (Music Online).

RRIMO: Recent Researches in Music Online

RRIMO: Recent Researches in Music Online
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Provides "online access to all titles published in 2018 and later in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions."

A-R Music Anthology (ARMA)

A-R Music Anthology (ARMA)
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Extensive collection of music and articles designed expressly for music history courses. Instructors can adapt the contents of the Online Music Anthology as a music history textbook and anthology. Students can print out any of the all newly engraved scores for their classes or personal use.

ARMA Instructional Videos

IMSLP

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library

Other Music Research Guides

UK Libraries Quick Links

InfoKat Discovery
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WorldCat (WorldCat.org)
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