General Studies in Music: Sheet Music

American Memory provides free access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. The materials are from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Sheet music available for popular music published in the early 1920s.

Sheet music & concert listings for free

Chopin Early Editions consist of digitized images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection.

This site makes Mozart's various musical compositions available to the public for personal study or educational use.

"The Loeb Music Library is engaged in an ongoing program to digitize scores and libretti selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching."--harvard.edu

This site provides access to the digitized works by many great composers.

Special Collections enhance the educational mission of the Free Library by assembling and making accessible historic materials, providing reliable and knowledgeable research services, and offering instructional programs that promote understanding of our shared cultural heritage. Many items in Special Collections are searchable in the public catalog, through Finding Aids, or in our Digital Collections. Please contact the collections for further details.

This site offers free, printable sheet music.

This site offers for free scores available in the public domain and from original composers with restricted licenses. They offer 13943 piece of music to download in PDF format.

Music library that provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access

"The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is an extraordinary collection of 138 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs, and first editions, which were donated to the School by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner."--juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.

Sheet music available for download by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and more.

This site has free sheet music and audio recordings available, without copyright restrictions.

Over 1,700 pieces of music available on this site. Sheet music is free to download, print, perform and distribute.

List of sheet music and song sheets available on the web and compiled by the librarians at the New York Public Library

Provides information regarding songs and sheet music in the public domain.

"Welcome to the Petrucci Music Library! Our goal is to create 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. "--imslp.org

"This site offers FREE scores of such Lieder with Accompaniments arranged in Lute Tabulature [not only by Sautschecks, but others as well], for practical use by Lutenists who work with Singers or sing themselves."--polyhymnion.org

An extensive list of sheet music resources compiled by the Music Library at Duke University.

Provides free access to over 20 sheet music collections featuring over 225,000 items. It is browsable by repository, title, composer, publisher, and date.