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(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Approximately 2250 titles...have been indexed approximately 1200 [of these] have been fully scanned and are available on this site."
(Brown University Library) "1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music..., includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."
(Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
(Music Division, Library of Congress)
(Mississippi State University) "A collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America."
Digitized images of the Chopin Early Editions collection at the University of Chicago.
Index to 1000+ website that contain free sheet music.
Index/search engine for free sheet music on the web.
Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.
(Music Division, Library of Congress)
(Lewis Music Library at M.I.T.) "Popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."
(Music Division, Library of Congress)
(Music Division, Library of Congress)
"These links include only sites with scores that may be downloaded free of charge."
(Chords and lyrics only)
(The New York Public Library) Searchable database of archival material held by the Performing Arts Library, including "music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz and dance music". Click "music" or "browse index" to limit search to sheet music.
(U.C.L.A. Music Library) "The Digital Archive of Popular American Music is an initiative designed to provide access to digital versions of the [archive's] sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain."
"A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900."
"A group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music..."
"Popular American music [from] 1780 to 1960." Includes covers and music for P.D. works, covers only for works still under copyright.
Access to bibliographic records and (for public domain works) digitized images of "over 10,000 pieces of pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the 19th and early 20th centuries".
Includes complete scores for operas, art songs, orchestral/chamber/piano/solo instrumental music literature (Indiana University site)
(Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, Library of Congress) "More than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music."
Free sheet music indexed by composer or editor.
Shadows (1826). NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
