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Contains 4291 American song sheets (lyrics but no music), including ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London.

Items published from 1800 to 1922, mostly written for voice and piano. Notable: early pieces by Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, as well as music by other popular composers and arrangements of classical composers' works.

Over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1820 to 1860, including popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular vocal music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and some music for band and orchestra. Composers are American and European.

Over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright 1870 to 1885, including popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Sacred music published in the U.S., especially the Midwest, dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Primarily collections of hymns and anthems, plus some other types of sacred music, e.g., cantatas and revival songs.

Sheet music published in America before 1900, mostly music from the popular tradition. Many compositions are songs for voice and piano, but music for solo piano and other instrumental music is also included. Midwest publishers and women composers are well represented.

Index of items housed in the sheet music collection of the Mills Music Library, UW-Madison, including music written by Wisconsin composers, published by Wisconsin publishers, and pieces whose subject matter is Wisconsin, dating from the late 1850s. Mostly, but not exclusively, popular music traditions.

Enter a search or click to Browse. When looking at an item's detail, click View Sheet Music" (above Title). Not all items have sheet music. The Archive covers popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. with almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. Particular strengths are music for the theater, motion pictures, radio and television, as well as general popular music, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs.

This is a digital image collection of over 400 of Chopin's first and early scores, searchable by titles, genres, and plate numbers.

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Loeb Music Library's digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching

Some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music, digitized from more than 300 microfilmed volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library.

Lyrics sheet music, photographs, correspondence, etc.

23 rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons.

Over 30,000 pieces of American popular music spanning the years 1780 to 1980, but focuses on nineteenth-century American popular music. It is especially strong in music spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I. Minstrel music is also well-represented. Other topics include music about the circus, dance, drinking, temperance, smoking, fraternal orders, presidents, romantic and sentimental songs, schools and colleges, and transportation. Music published before 1923 and in the public domain is digitized.

Primarily published sheet music, arranged into topical themes. Most of the sheet music is either a solo piano or a piano/vocal arrangement. Choose a topic and then Contents.

Robert Cushman collection of sheet music

Over 8,000 pieces of sheet music from the mid-19th century onward mostly organized into the Tampa General Music Collection and the Tampa African American Sheet Music Collection, with some pieces included in the Suchoff Bartokiana Collection, the Florida Sheet Music Collection, and the 19th Century American Literature Collection.

A consortium of libraries building an open collection of their digitized sheet music

Search for digitized scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.