Research guides: Music: Find Scores

Music Scores - Print

To search for music scores in print at the Milton Good Library or other Omni libraries, follow these steps:

Search in the Library catalogue (Omni) using the simple search field.
Enter your keywords. For example, composer, title, subject, instrument, form (sonatas, songs, etc.), opus number.
- Note: the more keywords you use, the fewer the results
Modify your results.
- choose Resource Type: Scores
- Do you need a score immediately? Modify your results by Availability: Available in Waterloo Library to see only what is owned by UWaterloo libraries. Keep in mind that it may take books from our Omni partners a few days to get here, so plan ahead.

Not finding what you are looking for? Try searching for just the composer's name or add the keyword 'works' to see any complete collections of works. For example, 'works', 'complete works', 'Sämtliche Werke', or 'oeuvres complétes.'

Music Scores - Online

There are many online score libraries for materials that are in the public domain:

Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Musical scores, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
Coverage: Renaissance - present

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): a community-built library of public domain sheet music. Extensive collection of original scores scanned to PDF.
Choral Public Domain Library
Large collection of public domain choral music. Includes texts, translations, and recordings.
LiederNet Archive
A large archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works.
Mutopia
The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.
Sibley Music Library
Scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection at the University of Rochester.
African-American Sheet Music
The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. One of the most important categories in the Sheet Music Collection is the African-Americana. This consists of music by and relating to African Americans, from the 1820s to the present day, and consists of approximately 6,000 items. Of that number, 1,700 items have been digitized.
Women Composers Collection
Digitized scores from the University of Michigan Library and made available via HathiTrust.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Digital Mozart Edition
This digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentary of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.
Chopin Early Editions
Chopin Early Editions consist of digitized images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection.
Art Song Central
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable public domain sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.

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