ULM Library LibGuides: Music: Find Scores

Locating Music Related Resources in ULM Library

Scores in Print

Most scores are located on the 3rd floor of ULM Library.

Use the ULM Library Catalog to find scores.
See the Library of Congress guide below for help finding scores

Library of Congress Call Number Guide

You'll need this information to locate scores and books in the Music section of ULM Library.

Tip: Call numbers are like a home address for books.

Detailed guide showing a breakdown of call numbers:
M = scores and other printed music
ML = books about music
MT = music instruction and study

Finding Print Materials in Music by Call Number

How to Search for Scores in Other Libraries and Order Them

Another option is to use the website Worldcat to look for scores located in other libraries. When you get on the website, click on the lines and circles icon beside the search button to open up an advanced search. See the graphic below on how to look for scores in Worldcat. Once you locate a score, use our Interlibrary Loan service to order it.

Digital Scores

African American Sheet Music
Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. The full collection consists of approximately 500,000 items.
BandMusic PDF Library
BandMusic PDF Library preserves and shares band music from the Golden Age of the American Town Band. If you are looking for public domain music to play with your school band, community band or other group, you'll find it here–marches, waltzes, rags, theater music, cornet solos, trombone features, and much more.
Hoagy Carmichael Collection, Indiana University
A complete catalog of the entire Carmichael Collection, access to selected digital objects, and supplemental research information, such as genealogy.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Johns Hopkins University's large online sheet music collection is particularly strong in American popular music of the 19th century.
Music for the American Nation: Sheet Music 1870-1885
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory series. Contains over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
Sheet Music Consortium
This site searches the digital sheet music collections of UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University.
19th Century California Sheet Music
A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900 and related materials. University of California, Berkeley.
19th Century California Sheet Music
A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900 and related materials. University of California, Berkeley.

Source: https://elon.libguides.com/music/scores

Beethovenhaus Bonn. Digital Archives
Contains the unique collections of the Beethoven-Haus: Music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures and many recordings.
Chopin Early Editions
The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin.
Choral Public Domain Library
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
Digital Mozart Edition
The Mozart complete works edition (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe) in digital form.
Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online
Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
International Music Scores Library (IMSLP)
IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
Music Treasures Consortium
"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."
The Royal Library Denmark, Digital Music Archive
Selected works from the Music and Theatre collections in digital form.

Source: https://elon.libguides.com/music/scores

Cambridge Digital Library - Music
This library is notable in particular for its lute manuscripts copied by Mathew Holmes in the early years of the seventeenth century.
DIAMM - Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
A collaboration of the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway and the University of London, DIAMM has created an electronic archive of more than 14,000 images.
Early Music Online
This project has digitized 300 of the world’s earliest surviving volumes of printed music, using copies in the British Library, and has made these freely available online.
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
A search and discovery system for accessing sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society.
The Juilliard Manuscript Collection
Collection of 140 items including manuscripts, sketches and first editions.
Loeb Music Library Digital Scores and Libretti
Harvard University's collection of rare music materials.
Morgan Library Music Manuscripts Online
More than 900 music manuscripts are available from the Morgan Library & Museum's world class collection.
Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online
Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
University of Washington Music Library Digital Scores Collection
The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music.

Source: https://libguides.northwestern.edu/musicguide/scores

Art Song
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.
List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries