Scope & Content Note
This page is designed to help you find print and electronic scores in the UConn Library's collections and online. Use this as a starting point or browsing tool. As always, consult Databases A-Z list for complete holdings information, and when uncertain, ask at the Music and Dramatic Arts Library service desk. Remember: This is merely a selection of featured scholarly resources. Visit the catalog or ask a librarian for more choices.
UConn Library Scores
Print Scores
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Scores shelved in the Music and Dramatic Arts LibraryUse this link to the UConn Library catalog to find a list of the nearly 15,000 scores shelved in the Music and Dramatic Arts Library.
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Electronic Scores
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Classical Scores Library
Classical Scores Library Collection is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works. This five-volume collection encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
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Recent Researches in Music OnlineFull text access to Recent Research in Music series from 2018 to the present
New Scores
Scores on the Open Web
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IMSLP: Petrucci Music LibraryThe Petrucci Music Library from the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) includes 500,000 scores that were published before 1923 and thus lie within the public domain. These scores are available as PDF files and can be downloaded to a computer or thumb drive. Additionally, 3,000 recordings are available as streamed audio files.
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Contemporary Music Score Collection (UCLA)The Contemporary Music Score Collection is published by the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library. The collection includes digital, open access scores.
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Web Library of Seventeenth-Century MusicThe Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music is a service offered by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, making available a growing catalog of music in modern editions for scholars, performers, and students.
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Choral Public Domain LibraryThe Choral Public Domain Library, or ChoralWiki, offers free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
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Library of Congress: Music Treasures ConsortiumThe Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship. Researchers can search or browse materials, access metadata about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive's Web site.
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Loeb Music Library's Digital Scores and Libretti (Harvard University)The Loeb Music Library digitizes scores and libretti selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching.
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Project Gutenberg Sheet Music ProjectDigitized public-domain sheet music, emphasis on chamber works.
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Digital Image Archive of Medieval MusicA portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts.
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Josquin Research Project (Stanford University)Polyphonic music from the period c.1420-1520
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African American Sheet Music (Brown University)Music by, and relating to, African-Americans from the 1820s to the present.
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Early Music Online (Royal Holloway, University of London)Digitized images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music.
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Virtual Music Rare Book Room (University of North Texas)A digital collection particularly strong in eighteenth-century French opera.
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Music Manuscripts Online (Morgan Library & Museum)In addition to numerous musicians’ letters and first editions of scores and librettos, the holdings include one of the the largest collections of Mahler manuscripts anywhere and substantial holdings of Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Schoenberg. Forty thousand collection items span six centuries and many countries.
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Munich DigitiZation Center (Bavarian State Library)Free access to hundreds of scores by Beethoven, Schumann, Distler, Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn, Rheinberger, others, including complete works sets of Liszt, Handel, and others.
