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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."
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(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."
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(Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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(Mississippi State University) "A collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America."
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Digitized images of the Chopin Early Editions collection at the University of Chicago.
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Index to 1000+ website that contain free sheet music.
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Index/search engine for free sheet music on the web.
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Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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(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."
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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(Music Division, Library of Congress)
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"These links include only sites with scores that may be downloaded free of charge."
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(Chords and lyrics only)
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(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.
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(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."
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"A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900."
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"A group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music..."
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"Popular American music [from] 1780 to 1960." Includes covers and music for P.D. works, covers only for works still under copyright.
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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".
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Includes complete scores for operas, art songs, orchestral/chamber/piano/solo instrumental music literature (Indiana University site)
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(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."
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Free sheet music indexed by composer or editor.
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