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Music: Scores

Music Scores and Other Online Music Sources

Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)   The International Music Score Library Project dedicated to creating "a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge."

Opera and Ballet Primary Sources (OBPS)  A growing collection of primary sources useful for opera and/or ballet research; nearly 10,000 scanned libretti and scores made available online. Also includes many scores, sets of parts, mise en scène, and other useful primary sources related to opera, ballet, and 19th-century vaudeville. 

Sheet Music Consortium Searchable database of images of sheet music from collections throughout the United States. 

Online Scores / Sheet Music Extensive list maintained by Duke University that includes online collections such as DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) and 19th Century American Sheet Music.

Hathi Book Trust A partnership among major research institutions and libraries devoted to providing digitized books, scores, and other texts found in public domain or made openly accessible by copyright holders. To search for scores, use the "Advanced Full Text Search" option, and limit the original format search to "Music Score."

Finding More Print and eBooks, Scores, Music

SU library now provides WorldCat Discovery, which searches for print books and ebooks, music scores, media, articles, and much more. 

What is WorldCat Discovery?  A search system that helps you discover items in collections at SU and other libraries worldwide.

What does WorldCat Discovery search? Books, ebooks, articles, media, and more.

  • All items physically located within the library, just like the former SU catalog WebCat.
  • Content from many of our most popular databases - journal articles, ebooks, and media.
  • Items from other libraries worldwide that you can request through interlibrary loan.

Transcriptions and Translations

IPA Source   Library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and translations of opera arias

and art songs.

LiederNet Archive  Archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works.

The Aria Database Translations of arias and aria texts; includes operatic sound files.

American Songbook and Purchasing Sources

Cafe Songbook Website devoted to songs, songwriters, and performers of The Great American Songbook. The focus is on American songs of the first half of the 20th century that were created as part of the score for Broadway shows, revues, Hollywood movies, or for independent publications in the form of sheet music and phonograph records.