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Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition, and theory for a variety of scholars.
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO) This link opens in a new window
A-R Editions has published Recent Researches in Musiccritical performing editions of music in seven seriessince its inception in 1962. The series fall into two basic categories: editions that span the history of Western music, and editions with ties to specific cultural milieus. Most editions in Recent Researches in Music are devoted to works by a single composer or in a single genre. The series Collegium Musicum: Yale University was founded in 1955 by the Yale University Department of Music and has been published by A-R Editions from 1969 to 2017. It presents a diverse selection of works suitable for performance by early music ensembles.

Chopin’s First Editions Online (CFEO)
"An online resource uniting all of the first impressions of Chopin’s first editions in an unprecedented virtual collection, thereby providing direct access to musicians and musicologists to some of the most important primary source materials relevant to the composer’s music."
ChoralWiki: Choral Public Domain Library
Offers free scores, texts, translations, and information about composers
Digital scores from the Sibley Music Library
Scores and books in the public domain, many of which are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Duke University Digital Collections: Sheet Music
Digitized musical works from Duke's library collections ranging the 18th-20th Century.
Early Music Online
A digitized collection from the British Library of more than 300 volumes of some of the oldest surviving printed music from the 16th century.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): Petrucci Music Library
A virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle; Find tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers here, all available for free download.
The Julliard Manuscript Collection
A collection of 140 autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions of works by composers from the 17th-20th Century.
Library of Congress Music Division Digital Collections
A myriad of collections containing primary sources dating back to the 10th Century.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
"The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna."
Online Chopin Variorum Edition
"OCVE provides digital images of the manuscripts and first editions of select works by the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. Its principal aim is to facilitate and enhance comparative analysis of these primary sources, attaining a degree of flexibility beyond that of extant printed editions of Chopin’s music and indeed of any composer to date."
UCLA's Sheet Music Consortium
"Access to online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public."
Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
"New editions of seventeenth-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially. WLSCM hopes to include editions of all types, from short lute and keyboard pieces to selections from (or even entire) operas and oratorios."

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Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
NOTE: Only 10 users at a time can access this database; Please log out of the service after completing your use; Includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs of 130,000+ musical recordings, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music; Patrons can also access notes on the works being played as well as biographical information.
Naxos Music Library World This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library World offers music from over 150 countries representing over 1,500 cultural groups through recordings of more than 32,000 artists. This streaming service also includes the complete ARC Music and Smithsonian Folkways catalogs.

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Films on Demand : Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
This database contains (under SUBJECTS: Music & Dance): documentaries and live performances of various music genres from Punk to Classical; pedagogical material discussing topics from the music industry to performance practice; all periods of music history; and music traditions from around the world.
Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos that inspire, enrich and entertain.
Met Opera on Demand: Student Access This link opens in a new window
Enjoy instant access to more than 650 full-length Met performances with the online streaming database for college and university libraries.

Limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Music Online: Classical Performance in Video This link opens in a new window
The largest and most comprehensive video resource for the study of classical music; Users experience classical music through 1,600 performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, as well as masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews.
Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries; Selections represent the worlds best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a works importance to the operatic canon.

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Eight		Library Administration Collection Management Digital Collections Center

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