Online Sheet Music Resources
Compiled by Erin Mayhood and Margaret Chevian
California Sheet Music Project (Duggan) http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html
A virtual library of over 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and
1900.
California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index http://www.sjvls.org/songs/
An online searchable database to search the contents of books, magazines, and other
collections of sheet music for a particular song title. The public can borrow copies of songs
through their local library.
Choral Public Domain Library (CDPL) http://www.cpdl.org/
Specializing in choral music, this site has over 5,000 scores listed in the database. Hundreds of
volunteers have contributed music scores, and over 40 affiliated free sheet music websites are
cataloged.
Center for Popular Music http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/
An archive and research center devoted to the study of American popular music from the pre-
revolutionary era to the present. Approximately 62,000 pieces of sheet music have been
cataloged, and may be searched online.
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/main.html
Contains images of over 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth
century America. It covers many genres, from the ragtime of Scott Joplin, the Dixieland of W.
C. Handy, the smooth ballads of Irving Berlin, the stirring patriotic anthems of John Phillips
Sousa and George M. Cohan to the early roots of big band.
Free Printable Music on the Web http://www.wright.edu/%7Emartin.jenkins/printmusic.html
Prepared by Martin Jenkins, this guide explains some of the most commonly found music
printing formats on the web along with sample sites allowing music to be printed or downloaded
free of charge.
Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
A significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic
American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the
collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
Indiana University Sheet Music http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/s/sheetmusic/
Searches holdings from the Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music,
including those for which digitized images available.
Levy Sheet Music Collection http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
A collection of over 29,000 pieces of popular American music spanning the period 1780-1960.
Digital images are available if the music was published before 1923 and in the public domain.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/
Contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright during the
years 1820--1885. Included are digital images of popular songs, operatic arias, piano music,
sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional
materials, and music for band and orchestra.
Popular American Music: Digital Archive http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam/
A research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to
the present. The archive is designed to provide access to digital versions of the sheet music,
and performances of the songs now in the public domain.
Sheet Music Collections (MLA) http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html
Maintained by the Music Library Association, this site lists various types of sheet music
collections available on the web.