Music

Includes scanned sheet music from the turn of the century, concert programs and ephemera.

The Bodleian Library has holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitized copies available to the research community.

A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated.

This site is a wiki-style portal dedicated to providing free, legal scores of choral music.

Nearly 100 opera and musical theater scores from UIUC have been digitized. Represented in the collection are the works of composers such as Victor Herbert, John Philip Sousa, and Gilbert & Sullivan.

An index of traditional folk songs of the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Each entry includes the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and a citation.

Scanned images of Bach Church Cantatas.

Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use.

"This manuscript is Mozart's record of his compositions in the last seven years of his life, and thus is a uniquely important document.
According to the description on the front cover, Mozart planned to include all his compositions, but there are a few minor omissions. Intriguingly, there are also entries in the catalogue for a number of works that have since been lost."