List of online digital musical document libraries

Approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century. Contains catalog descriptions and digital images of the individual pieces.

Sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, along with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music from eleven locations have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated.

Sheet music, primarily vocal music of American imprint, dating from the 18th century to the present, with most titles in the period 1840–1950.

Printable sheet music primarily for singers and voice teachers—most downloadable. Emphasis on standard classical and traditional repertoire. IPA transcriptions available for every German, French, Italian and Latin song in the index. Supplementary information on more than 250 songs.

Largely from and about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

Johann Sebastian Bach's autograph manuscripts and original parts. Advanced search options. High-resolution scans. Also contains Bach's copies of works by other composers. Comprises at least 90% of extant Bach manuscripts worldwide. Funding provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and others.

Links more than 6,100 documents on 37,300 coloured high-quality scans, 1,600 audio files (uncluding music examples and audio letters), and 7,600 text files.

Downloadable color images.

Sheet music in the Brazilian National Digital Library.

Printed materials range from the 16th to the 20th Century.

RGB tiff images with a resolution of 1,200 dpi (photos) or 400 dpi (autographs, letters, prints, etc.).

Medieval-era manuscripts written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221–1284). One of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages. The To Codex contains roughly the first 100 cantigas, the E Codex all of the cantigas. Illuminations may be found in the E Codex with every 10th cantiga.

The largest single holding of cello music–related materials in the world, including annotated sheet music (manuscript and published), monographs, serials, audio/video recordings, personal papers, and artifacts associated with noted cellists.

Sheet music for popular tunes dating as far back as 1865. Items are scanned at 600 dpi and saved as a TIFF files.

AHRC-funded research project containing music files viewable on-site or as downloads. Most of the music consists of chamber music and concertos for string instruments, edited and annotated by such players as Ferdinand David, Friedrich Grützmacher, and Joseph Joachim.

All of the first impressions of Chopin's first editions.

Scores of early printed editions of Chopin's music works published before 1881, of which 74 are works with opus number and 11 are without.

Publicly editable library of public domain music in standardized, machine-parsable formats such as MusicXML, MuseScore, Sibelius, and Finale. Largest public, centralized repository of fully digitized CPP scores.

Rare and unusual publications of music for string quartet.

Manuscripts from the medieval codices in the Abbey library of St. Gallen. Downloadable colour PDFs and XML files.

High-quality early music scores. Online corpus of electronic editions and associated software tools.

Images of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts from approximately 800 to 1600. Includes detailed information for all known sources of European polyphonic music (almost entirely vocal), high-resolution colour TIFF images, and links to external images available at other sites.

First and early editions and manuscripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers. Multiple versions of 19th-century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.

Metadata and scanned facsimiles of items in the Düben collection of musical manuscripts and prints from the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Medieval and early modern manuscripts from several Swiss libraries, including the Abbey Library of St. Galla.

Digitised images of over 320 volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, from holdings at the British Library, made available for non-commercial use under JISC's Open Education User Licence.

From the late 18th century to the early 20th century.

Early printed and manuscript scores of the French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831). Includes arrangements of large orchestral works published within the composer's lifetime.

Sheet music and open-source sheet music cataloging software.

Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers.

Sheet music for popular songs and piano compositions, mostly 1890–1920.

Rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas, ballets, and compilations by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons.

Autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and first editions.

Scanned graphical music scores (separated by movement), with manually corrected OMR data:

• Beethoven piano sonatas edited by Paul Dukas. Édition classique a Durand & fils, No. 9327. 1915.
• Mozart piano sonatas from the Alte Mozart-Ausgabe: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe (volume 20 [1878]). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig; 1877–1883.
• Selected Haydn keyboard sonatas (partial OMR) 34 harpsichord/pianoforte sonatas from the first four volumes published by Universal Edition (1901).
• D. Scarlatti keyboard sonatas (partial OMR) Edited by Alessandro Longo (Ricordi, 1906–1913).

One book of music from Rare Book Room, which contains digitized books of many types. Laborde Chansonnier – ca. 1470 – Unknown, (author) – France – Library of Congress, Music Division

American popular music spanning the years 1780–1980.

Patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music, and novelty numbers published from before 1900 to 1920. Includes Canadian imprints and music by Canadians or about Canada published anywhere in the world.

19th and early 20th-century American sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

Historical sheet music registered for copyright, including more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820–1860 and more than 47,000 during the years 1870–1885. Includes popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Representative examples documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era, including many complete works.

Four complete manuscripts, a gradual, and three antiphonals.

Graphical Scores and originating data[1] for:

• Archangelo Corelli, complete published works, Opp. 1–6 (72 works)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, complete symphonies, selected string quartets
• Antonio Vivaldi, concerti grossi
• other works (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Marcello, Mozart, Rovetta, Teleman)

Music made and played by Australians, most published before 1930. Medium-resolution scans. PDFs available.

Manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries—mostly 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music.

High-quality images and descriptions of music manuscripts.

Music scores by Brazilian composers.

Musical text and critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.

Public domain music scores provided by the user community in MusicXML format.

Bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book & Manuscript Library in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C53, WG56).

Colour photos, not downloadable.

Searchable database of over 1.2 million historical musical sources, with a focus on the period between 1600 and 1850. When available, links are included to digitized items in the holding institution's repository.

Open collection of digitized sheet music, using the Open Archives Initiative: Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH).

Collections Indexed:

• Library of Congress, Music Division – 47,528 records
• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University – 20,157 records
• Lilly Library, Indiana University – 17,937 records
• Maine Music Box – 11,779 records
• Lester Levy Collection, Johns Hopkins University – 11,590 records
• National Library of Australia – 6,731 records
• UCLA Music Library – 4,593 records

Public domain scores and books.

Lute music available in EPS, PDF, MIDI, or TAB format.

Prints and editions of Victoria, Morales, and some other Spanish composers.

Traditional and folk music from around the world. Includes downloadable PDF scores and MIDI backing tracks for many of the songs.

Colour JPEGs of Renaissance manuscripts.

Music from the 9th to 15th centuries.

Emphasis on 18th-century French opera.