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Sheet music 8notes.com 
 This site offers over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs. The music is browsable by category (classical, popular, film & television, traditional, etc.) and by instrument, and is searchable by composer, title words, and instrument. Online lessons for several instruments and a directory of over 1000 music-related sites are also included. 8notes.com owns the copyright to most of the sheet music provided (in-house editions of out-of-copyright music) and has permissions for the rest. http://www.8notes.com/ Topics: Musical Genres Last updated Feb 28, 2005 African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
Images of hundreds of pieces of sheet music, including "songs from the heyday of antebellum blackface minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period." Indexed by title, subject, or creator. Also includes links to essays that provide history and context. From the John Hay Library at Brown University. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam/ Topics: Black Resources, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Mar 7, 2006 The Ashford Sheet Music Collection
This site presents a database of more than 1,000 sheet music titles housed at the University of Washington. Some of the sheet music has been digitized (search results can be limited to these items). The emphasis is on music from and about Washington state and the Pacific Northwest. Searchable by keyword, composer name, title, subject, and publication. From the University of Washington Music Library and Listening Center. http://db.lib.washington.edu/sheetmusic/ Topics: Music, Washington State: Arts and Humanities, Washington State: Recreation Last updated Feb 28, 2005 Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
A searchable collection of sheet music from late 19th century to early 20th century America, divided into the categories of blues, rags, movie and show tunes, foxtrots, popular songs, war songs, minstrel songs, songs of Irving Berlin, and specialty songs. From Mississippi State University Libraries. http://digital.library.msstate.edu/collections/sheetmusic/index.html Topics: Musical Genres Last updated Mar 8, 2009 Digital Archive: Popular American Music
Contains images of sheet music for hundreds of popular American songs published from 1885 through 1953. Searchable, and browsable by title and date. From the Digital Library Program, University of California, Los Angeles. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam/ Topics: Music, Musical Genres Last updated Feb 28, 2005 Free Scores
A collection of links to sheet music for accordion, piano, orchestra/band, saxophone, violin, cello, viola, flamenco and classical guitar, voice, and chorus in a variety of formats. Also available in French. http://www.free-scores.com/english/HTML/index-uk.htm Topics: Musical Genres, Musical Instruments Last updated Feb 28, 2005 Historic American Sheet Music
Digitized images of over 3000 pieces of American sheet music from 1850 to 1920, along with their full-color cover art and advertisements, in this searchable index. Search for specific criteria such as subject or date, or browse by cover. From The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Aug 19, 2008 The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
This collection spans the years 1780 to 1960, but its strength is 19th and early 20th-century American popular music. Thousands of pieces of music are searchable by keyword or browsed by box number or cover art. Information includes title; composer; lyricist; arranger; publication; instrumentation; first line; first line of chorus; dedicatee; artist; and subject. Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Sep 30, 2006 The Maine Music Box
A digitized collection of rare, unique, and historically important sheet music and manuscript scores, including popular, classical, and sacred music from about 1845 onward. Entry content varies depending on copyright status. Most include covers and bibliographic record; public domain materials may also have full scores and sound files. From the collections of the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill, Maine, and the Bangor (Maine) Public Library. http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Jul 16, 2007 Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
A digitally scanned collection of "more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are 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." Searchable or browsable by author, title, or subject. An American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ Topics: Music Last updated Feb 28, 2005 Sheet Music Consortium
Contains tens of thousands of images of sheet music from collections throughout the United States. Browsable by title, and searchable by composer, subject, publisher, and date. A project of "a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music." Hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ Topics: Music Last updated Nov 28, 2005 |
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