Other Online Sources
- American MemoryThe Library of Congress' American Memory Project provides open access to sheet music that documents the American experience.
- Center for Computer Assisted Research in the HumanitiesFounded in 1984 at Stanford University, the CCARH is engaged in the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance.
- Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities WikiipageAdditional scores can be found at CCARH's wikipage.
- CPDL.orgAt ChoralWiki you can find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
- EuropeanaEuropeana gives you access to over 6 million digitized items from museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and audio-visual collections. Many collections include scores, manuscripts, libretti, and musical texts.
- Digital Scores & LibrettiFrom the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.
- HathiTrustHathiTrust works with academic and research institutions to digitize millions of titles.
Click the "Full view only" when you search to retrieve complete scores. - IMSLP: International Music Score Library ProjectVirtual library containing public domain music scores, sheet music, and scores from composers who are willing to share their music free of charge.
- Internet ArchiveTakes a bit of effort to retrieve scores, but patience is rewarded.
- Music Treasures ConsortiumProvides 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.
- Mutopia ProjectThe Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music in the public domain and distributed under Creative Commons licenses.
- SongHelixSearch through thousands of art songs by composer, poet, date of composition, thematic links, keywords, or utility.Entries include links to free online versions and publishers' websites.
- Women Composers Collection at HathiTrustOver 3,000 works by more than 700 women composers. Around 2,400 are in public domain.
Specific Instruments
- Musik-och teaterbiblioteket, Sverige : Carl Oscar Boije af Gennäs Guitar CollectionCollection includes nearly 1,000 printed and manuscript works of music for guitar.
The Public Domain Song Anthology
- The Public Domain Song Anthology
The Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels is a collection of 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance. This open educational resource was curated by two leading jazz repertory experts and consists of songs in the US public domain. This anthology is the first of its kind and is free for students and performers to use, adapt, remix, and share. The songs, many of which are at risk of being forgotten, are free of copyright restrictions and are available in multiple formats to promote greater usage and dissemination.