Research Guides: Music: Scores

Finding Scores Online

Using Omni, conduct a search for the desired name of composer/score and then limit "Resource Type" to "Scores":

Remember, you can search for a composer under AUTHOR -- last name, first name. e.g. Mozart, Wolfgang.
If you have it, include an opus or thematic catalogue number for the work in a keyword search. e.g. op. 95.
Use the Library of Congress Call # Guide to find the ID associated with specific types of scores, e.g. Quartets, Choral Music, Hymnals, etc.

More Sources for Scores

Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
- Find the major composers output as well as many lesser known composers and works spanning from the Renaissance to the 21st C.
- Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
- Permitted Uses

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
Find over 145,000 scores free to access and download! The Petrucci Music Library, also known as the International Music Score Library, gathers public domain music scores in one place to make finding them easier.
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Art Song Central
An archive of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. The emphasis is on standard classical and traditional repertoire.

Neue Mozart Ausgabe (NMA) Online

The Mozart complete works edition (Neue Mozart Ausgabe) online!

NMA Online is an impressive ongoing project to make the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) freely available online. Currently, it provides access to 126 volumes and over 26,000 pages of music, as well as the critical reports and eventually critical editions of letters, documents and libretti.

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How to use NMA Online:

Searchable and browsable by Köchel number, keyword, genre, key, and more. Interface available in German, English, and Japanese.

When you have found the desired volume:

Click on the note-head icon to view a scan of the score
Click on the 'text' button to view the critical report
Click on the 'i' button to access an interactive table of contents:
- 'Page' provides links to scans of exact pages of each work and movement
- Click on the Adobe PDF icon to download a PDF of this page range
- If available, click on the speaker icon to access audio recordings!