Library & Learning Commons: Music: Digital Scores

Digital Scores

These databases offer digitized sheet music for use in study and performance at no charge to you. You may also benefit from looking under the Archives tab at the left for sites offering digitized sheet music with greater historical significance, as well as other primary source materials.

50 for the Future
A free library of 50 works for string quartet commissioned by the Kronos Quartet.
Band Music PDF Library
PDFs of band music in the public domain.
Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores
If you are having difficulty locating a digital score of a work, it may be possible for you to request a free electronic perusal copy directly from a publisher. Here, for example, is a link where you can request digital perusal scores from Boosey & Hawkes. See also ScoresOnDemand below.
Choral Public Domain Library
A source for free scores of nearly 30,000 choral and vocal works by over 3,000 composers.
Contemporary Music Score Collection
Published by the UCLA Music Library, this is the first open access edition of new music published by a library.
Free Scores
A free and legal platform for composers, arrangers and publishers to offer contemporary, classical and educational free sheet music for all instruments.

Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922 This link opens in a new window
This Library of Congress collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920.
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library This link opens in a new window
A library of nearly half a million scores of works no longer protected by copyright. More than 50,000 recordings are also included.

Mozart Complete Works (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe)
The scores and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe for study and performance.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Source for digital scores representing works from the Medieval period through the present. Includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Open Score Project This link opens in a new window
Another virtual library of public domain sheet music.

ScoresOnDemand
Perusal scores from members of Wise Music Group: Chester Music, Novello & Co, G. Schirmer/AMP, Edition Wilhelm Hansen; and Unión Musical.
Wikipedia list of online digital musical document libraries
List of over 60 sources that "offer access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources). Some contain scanned images, some contains fully encoded scores, some contain encodings adapted for music playback (e.g. via MIDI), and others (e.g KernScores) are adapted for music analysis" (Wikipedia).