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Music Scores & Sheet Music

This guide is intended to provide guidance for students in finding music scores and sheet music.

Finding scores and sheet music using an index

Use specialized indexes to direct you to scores that have been published in a variety of sources.  There are many indexes out there, so try more than one.  Once you have found a citation to a score published in another source, check our library catalogue to see if we own or provide electronic access to the other source.

Perform an ADVANCED subject SEARCH in our library catalogue, using the terms "music" and "bibliography" to access a more complete list of our index holdings.

Indexes to scores in anthologies

Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music : a guide to their contents Heyer, Anna Harriet

New Grove dictionary of music & musicians  Stanley, Sadie (ed.). (consult the WORKS section at the end of the article)

An index to early music in selected anthologies Hilton, Ruth B.

Songs in collections ; an index  De Charms, Desiree.

Electronic and full text indexes to scores

Grove Music Online - This database provides extensive indexes to scores in collections.  Click on the WORKS tab in composer entries to see the full lists.

Classical Scores Library - An Alexander Street Press database with access to thousands of scores and sheet music