Music

ChoralWiki holds over 13,000 music score pages by over 1,800 composers, with more being added daily. A majority of the scores are vocal, not necessarily choral, and some scores have a midi audio file. The scores are searchable by keyword, as well as browseable by composer, title or category.

Collection of archives, scanned scores and manuscripts, structured databases, audio and video materials, and collections of maps, recordings, images, etc.

IMSLP is a free online, international user contributed library of music scores in the public domain or scores contributed by their composer. Contributions include non-published scores from library holdings around the world. The library also recently started adding freely accessible recordings.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of 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.

Non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

Project Gutenberg got its start by digitizing books, essentially creating e-books. They have now digitized a limited number (34 as of Aug. 2011) of music scores, primarily chamber music from the most well known composers.

(Eastman School of Music. Sibley Music Library) Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.

(University of North Texas) Digital collection of early opera scores, particularly Lully and other French composers.

Scans of over 3000 pieces of sheet music from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

(Library of Congress) Part of the American Memory series of digital collections.

(Library of Congress) Part of the American Memory series of digital collections.

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Lessons: Explore the fundamentals of music in animated lessons.
Exercises: Create custom exercises to improve your musical recognition.
Tools: Use interactive tools to calculate notes, intervals, and chords in a specific key.

Streaming music database of international works in a variety of genres from classical to spoken word with over 78,000 tracks. More...

The Librar of Congress' page for music researchers.