This guide contains links to digitized score collections, including both subscription-based services available through JUILCAT Plus, as well as free collections of public domain resources from libraries and archives around the world.
The AAP aims to increase awareness of and access to arias by diverse, contemporary American composers and librettists, whose scores remain largely unpublished. This online hub includes arias from works that have recently received their premieres, as well as from operas for which the premieres are forthcoming. At launch, the AAP includes 20 different arias, all available for free download as PDFs for educational and audition purposes. Additional arias will be added to the AAP hub on a regular basis.
One of the largest online collections of digital scores and recordings contributed from around the world. The site contains works in the public domain as well as some contemporary works released through Creative Commons.
Published by the UCLA Music Library in eScholarship, the Contemporary Music Score Collection 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.
The Hathi Trust Women Composers Collection consists of digitized sheet music for approximately 3,000 musical works by more than 700 women composers. Most date from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, with a few pieces from the 18th century.
Digital images of Juilliard's own collection of musical manuscripts, including works by Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Copland, Liszt, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, and more.
From the Morgan Library and Museum: Works by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann, and more.
From Johns Hopkins University: Digitized sheet music of American popular music, mostly from the nineteenth century, and searchable by subject, composer, or publisher.