Guides: Music Research Guide: Music Scores

Search the DePaul Library Catalog for Music Scores

Search the DePaul Library Catalog above for music scores and parts available to checkout. Here are some suggestions for online collections of scores.

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Digitized collection of scores available in the public domain.
Choral Public Domain Library
Free public domain choral music in Adobe Acrobat format.
Contemporary Music Score Collection (UCLA Music Library)
Includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
Library of Congress: American Memory Project: Performing Arts
Library of Congress collections of sheet music, folk music recordings, jazz photography, the Leonard Bernstein collection and dance manuals with video clips.

Digital Scores and Libretti Collection (Harvard) This link opens in a new window
Digital versions of scores from Harvard's Loeb Music Library. Mostly from the Bach family, Mozart, and Verdi.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
Digitized Music Scores at the Sibley Music Library This link opens in a new window
Over 2,600 public domain music scores from the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.
Access note: Freely available to the public.

Variations: Online Musical Scores
Selected scores from the Opera, Song, Choral & Orchestral and Chamber Music literature collections of Indiana University's Cook Music Library.
Neue Mozart Ausgabe: Online
Searchable, digitized version of the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (New edition of the Mozart Collected Works).
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
Over 29,000 pieces of popular American sheet music spanning the period 1780 to 1960; images of the cover and each page are also available if the music is in the public domain.

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 This link opens in a new window
Digital images of 19th and early 20th century sheet music published in the US, owned by Duke University.

Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of full, study, piano, and vocal scores, encompassing all major classical musical genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary. New in May 2023: Volume V with an emphasis on contemporary composers and works from the 20th and 21st centuries.