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Website lists and guides

• Online sources topic on the IMSLP forums
• Another List of sites
• Site index
• Another guide
• Harvard University
• Duke University
• A list at UCLA
• Another at Duke
• Free Sheet Music Webring
• Sheet music section at dmoz
• The European Library
• Manuscriptorium
• Extensive list at Pianopassion.com

Universities and Libraries

• Digital archives of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn
• Mozarteum: Complete online editon of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (New Mozart Complete Edition)!
• Schubert Online Large collection of Schubert autographs. Watermarked.
• Sibley Music Library at Rochester University Massive collections of pdfs.
• Variations Project at Indiana University low-resolution scans. Also see the IMSLP information page for the VARIATIONS project.
• University of Chicago Scans of early Chopin editions.

• [1] maybe there is more to find on the search page

• Virtual Rare Book Room at University of North Texas. Baroque first editions / manuscripts.
• Danish Royal Library a pdf collection of mostly Danish composers.
  • use this search page
  • or this list
• Nederlands Muziekinstituut Netherlands Library. Flash-based, counts only one project so far.
• Gallica, the digital Bibliothèque National de France pdf's of french composers

• Philidor, a Sheet music subsection

• The Internet Archive Some sheet music, hidden between other texts.
• Biblioteca nacional de portugal Go to: Biblioteca nacional digital, search:musica manuscrita
• Loeb Music Library at Harvard. Bach, Mozart, Verdi.
• Library of Congress Music Department

• LOC:Music For The Nation High resolution TIFs of classical and popular music.
• Combined Search Page for the collections at LOC

• Australia's Music Online Large collection of medium-resolution scans. Click 'print' to get pdf.
• National Library of Australia
• Tri-college Digital Music Initiative small collection of djvu scans and recordings of classical music.
• Mike's Private Piano Music Archive small collection of scans.
• University of Michigan
• University of North Carolina Digitized Sheet Music. Low resolution.
• Music Library of Sweden
• University of Auburn Piano Bench American Music
• Azalia Hackley Collection American music
• Charles H. Templeton Museum Popular American Music
• MIT - Lewis Music Library Popular American Sheet Music
• New York Public Library American sheet music
• New York Public Library Popular American Music
• Sheet Music Consortium This websites groups the four following sheet music sites with popular American music:

• Indiana University Sheet Music Vast collection of American Sheet Music
• UCLA Digital Library Sheet Music Project popular American sheet music
• The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music popular American music at Johns Hopkins University.
• Historic American Sheet Music collection at Duke University

• Hoagy Carmichael Collection American songs
• NEWUniversity of Colorado. Songs relating to Colorado, and also Ragtime.
• Calfiornia Sheet Music Project popular 19th-century music
• Julliard Manuscript Collection
• The Maine Music Box 22,000 titles of mostly american sheet music.
• Julliard School Digital Resources

Julliard Manuscript Collection - flash

Sheet Music Projects

Original Typeset Sheet Music Providers

• Mutopia Retypeset Scores
• Choral Public Domain Library Collection of Choral Music in various formats
• Werner Icking Music Archive also known as WIMA. (distributing not allowed)
• Gutenberg:The Sheet Music Project Typeset scores.
• Free Sheetmusic.org Dutch, retypeset
• Web Library Of Seventeenth-Century Music 7 retypesetted scores
• Some public lilypond files at the homepage of Han-Wen Nienhuys, the creator of lilypond.
• Open-Scores A score retypesetting project by Horndude77
• Old music typesetted by Johan Tufvesson
• German site with typesetted scores
• Baroque and pre-classic music typesetted by Mario Bolognani (distributing not allowed)
• Acadia Early Music Archive
• Steve Hendricks Music Collection (early music)
• Old Music Project

Original Scanned Music Providers

• Site with scans used by the Sheet Music Project of Gutenberg Mostly Dover scans, fairly high quality. No new scores are uploaded.
• CCARH Scores of Bach, Händel, Mozart, Vivaldi
• Piano.ru Very large collection, partly russian. Some knowledge of cyrillic script is welcome.
• classic.chubrik.ru mp3s and pdfs.
• alenmusic.narod.ru A lot of scores, use the url to decrypt. Very slow download.
• Tarakanov.net A lot here:Russian and international music
• musicologie.org
• Forgotten and Negelected Piano Masterworks. Some rare scores, available on request.
• Partituras oboe Oboe works. Contains copyrighted works.

Secondary Collections

• Sheetmusicfox.com Is reported to contain scores from SMA but not limited to 2 dl per day.
• free-scores.com A big collection that consists of copies of other sites (e.g. IMSLP)
• Sheet Music Hub - Hub on Direct Connect (Address: sheetmusic.serveftp.net), ca. 100 users sharing at least 3 TB (!) of scores.
• A Brazilian School - (need more info on name)

Not yet ordened

• Musicaviva Over 1000 titles and wellorganized links
• Pianofiles Popular, jazz, soundtrack, rock and many more. 50349 traders sharing 1033000 piano sheets!
• Bibliothèque numérique de partitions de musique Clavecin,Organ,Piano,Luth,Gitar,Fac Simile ca.1300 scores.Beautiful baroque organmusic editions !

• Pian e forte Piano,and 1 instrument+ piano. Preview of the first bars
• The Music Library of Denis Bouriakov - Questionable Public Domain-ness on some pieces
• Bach Cantatas
• Various Scores on a site of Tomás Luis de Victoria
• Fac-simile.org
• 8Notes.com
• Rowy.net
• Music-scores.com
• Pianopublicdomain.com Log-in is required, haven't tried it yet.
• bh2000 - Many scores on IMSLP currently come from this collection (torrent)
• El-atril (low resolution scores)
• Allpianosheet Commercial. Some free files.
• An Ukrainian Music Library
• Classical-Sheet-Music.eu
• Classical Scores.com
• The Hymns and Carols of Christmas Public domain scans of christmas music and hymns.
• Musica Erudita Virtual library of free scores.
• NEW Free Sheet Music.de Piano Music
• NEW Macdowell Music at Wellesley College
• NEW Big collection of scores of piano music by Alkan.
• NEW Abraham Espinosa's Site
• Nissimo.com
• NEW L'Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Danse de Grand-Couronne
• NEW pianosociety.com
• Roisman.narod.ru
• NEWThe Cobbett Library
• Classical Sheet Music for Guitar
• Delcamp.net - Guitar
• Integral Music by Mauro Giulini
• The Music library of Sweden - Boije Collection
• The Music Library of Sweden - Roman Collection

Commercial providers of public domain music

• CD Sheet Music
• Elibron
• EveryNote
• Pianostreet Scanned PD works BUT copyrighted editions too.
• Allpianosheetmusic
• Classicaland

Other resources

• Royal library of Belgium. Contains historical recordings, but did not find sheet music yet.
• A Directory of National Libraries There should be a lot to find here...]

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