Music

[Real One Player]: This site provides online access to some 2700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900. It also contains interesting ephemera ranging from a music publisher's catalog from 1872, advertisements, and photographs. Some of the songs included in the archive deal with beggars ("Just One Penny to Buy Bread," babies ("Baby's Asleep"), and politicians ("Horace Greeley's Grand March"). Finally the site also has several musical performances for the listening pleasure of those compelled to visit this tribute to the sheet music of the Golden State.

This collection of sheet music includes some 22,000 titles. So far, the online searchable archive is only partially available, but a good selection of the sheet music is scanned and can be viewed and downloaded for closer examination. The available sheet music is divided into several main categories, including blues, rags, movie tunes, show tunes, Irving Berlin, war songs, and minstrel songs.

After starting in 1998, this is the largest site devoted exclusively to providing free choral sheet music. With more than 10,000 scores available, it is searchable by title, composer, musical period, or genre.

This site includes digitized versions of Mozart's various musical compositions, complete with the musical text, sheet music, and commentary. From Germany, the site is also available in English.

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. Source: Librarians' Internet Index.

This site provides access to sheet music published between 1850 and 1920.

International Music Score Library Project allows users to browse for scores, recordings, and among composers.

Spanning from 1780 to 1980, this collection of over 29,000 pieces of sheet music is especially strong in music related to military conflicts, the circus, and minstrels. The entire collection is digitized.

Accesses "thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post Civil War era."

Music Manuscripts Online provides access to digitized versions of more than 500 music manuscripts owned by The Morgan Library & Museum. Works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, and Schumann, among many others, can be viewed on these pages.

This nonprofit charity is focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources, including sheet music and recordings, without copyright restrictions.

This site offers "scores" of classical music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart and many others. All sheet music on this site is in the public domain and can be downloaded, printed, performed, and distributed for free. Some audio recordings are also included.

A group of university libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music.

Designed as a college-based, long-term digital collection, this site allows users to browse or search among 19,363 musical scores.