Collins Memorial Library: Music 322: Dance in World Cultures: Scores

Types of Scores

The library has scores in a variety of formats:

Full Score - complete music with each part on a separate staff

Miniature Score - A photographic reduction of a full score

Score and Parts - a scosre with all the parts including individual parts for the performers

Vocal Score - Sepaarte lines for vocal soloists and choral parts, with a reduction of instrumental lines playable at the piano

There are also critical (scholarly) editions of scores and facscimiles.

Online Music Scores & Sheet Music

International Music Score Library Project
Public domain printed music on the Internet uploaded by users
Choral Public Domain Library
Public domain choral music uploaded by users.
Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Sheet Music
approximately 30,000 titles from Baylor University
E. Azalia Hackley Collection
over 600 pieces of 19th and 20th century sheet music published between 1799 and 1922
Historic American Sheet Music
19th & early 20th century sheet music
Digital Scores and Libretti
The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
Sheet Music Consortium
Digitized scores from groups of libraries, including Duke, Indiana, and the Library of Congress
Music Treasures Consortium
provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives