Madeleine Clark Wallace Library: Music: Find Musical Scores

Resources for Finding Musical Scores

Wallace Library has a large collection of musical scores located on the Stacks Level of the library. The circulating collection of music scores are shelved outside the Music Seminar Room, while non-circulating scores are stored inside it. To find scores in our collection, use the Advanced Search screen of the Catalog, enter your search terms, then click on the "Format" dropdown and select "musical score."

Below are some other resources for finding musical scores.

Shubertline This link opens in a new window A library of over 4000 score files, covering most of the best-known songs, arias, and duets in the classical repertoire.
International Music Score Library This link opens in a new window The International Music Score Library Project, also known as the Petrucci Music Library, is a repository of downloadable and printable public domain music scores.
Historic American Sheet Music This link opens in a new window Digital collection of more than 3000 pieces from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, from the collections of the Duke University Libraries.
Sheet Music Consortium This link opens in a new window Digital collection of sheet music from the collections of several major research libraries.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music This link opens in a new window Extensive collection of sheet music of American popular music from c. 1780 to c. 1980, with an emphasis on the 19th century.
Early Music Online This link opens in a new window Collection of music anthologies from the sixteenth century held at the British Library.
International Phonetic Alphabet Source This link opens in a new window Library of transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.