8notes.com
This
site offers over 1500 free sheet music pieces and music rifts.
19th
Century California Sheet Music Collection
This collection contains over 2000 pieces of sheet music that was
published in California between 1852 and 1900.
Folk
Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales
and America
This site is a collection
of traditional and popular songs of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Wales and America dating from 1600 to
1927. It includes the categories: "Songs
of Love," "Lullabies, Sad Songs, Songs
of Home and of Melancholy and Nostalgia," "Songs
of the Countryside, County Life and Common Folk," "Songs
of War," "Songs of the Sea," "Songs
of America," "Songs of Wastrels, Rascals,
Outlaws, Criminals, and Violence," and "Children's
and Nonsense Songs."
Free
Scores
Free Scores offers access
to sheet music for accordion, piano, orchestra/band,
saxophone, violin/viola/cello, choral, guitar and
more to come in the future. You may need
to add various plugins for viewing the sheet music. It
includes links to sites in English and in French.
Historic
American Sheet Music
"The Historic American
Sheet Music Project provides access to digital
images of 2042 pieces from the Rare Book, Manuscript
and Special Collections at Duke University, published
in the United States between 1850 and 1920."
Lester Levy
Collection
"The Lester
S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of
Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower
Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains
over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular
American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
All pieces of the collection are indexed on this
site and a search will retrieve a catalog description
of the pieces. An image of the cover and each
page of music will also be retrieved if the music
was published before 1923 and is in the public
domain"
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music,
1870-1885
Music for the Nation
contains over "47,000 pieces of sheet music
registered for copyright during the years 1870
to 1885." It includes popular songs,
piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo
instrumental music, method books and instructional
materials, and music for band and orchestra.
Music,
Theater, & Dance
You can experience the
diversity of America's performing arts through
the Library of Congress' collections of sheet music,
scores, audio recordsings, films, photographs,
maps and more.
Music
Scores
Music Scores offers
free access to classical sheet music. You
can enjoy classical music in several different
ways: MIDI format, scorch, or PDF format. MIDI
format lets you listen to famous works and arrangements
on the computer. The PDF format allows you
to download your favorite sheet music. Scorch
is "the latest in computer technology." You
can hear the playback, but you will also see the
sheet music with a cursor showing exactly where
the music being played is. Each page turns in time
with the music. It can be searched by composer,
by instrument or by style.
Music
Viva
Music Viva offers users
free sheet music that is currently made available
on the web. You can find music for vocals,
woodwinds, brass, stringed instruments, strings,
keyboard instruments and ensembles.
Sheet
Music Consortium
This site harvest (collects) sheet music from participating
collections. The collection included bibliographic
information, as well as digitized copies of the original
sheet music.
Sheet
Music: Christmas Carols
Sheet Music: Christmas
Carols has prepared the lyrics, vocal parts and
chord symbols to your favorite Christmas carols.
Templeton Music Collection
"The Charles H. Templeton Ragtime Sheet Music Collection
is being digitized in an effort to preserve the collection
as well as make it more accessible to researchers."
Top
Lyrics
Top Lyrics offers the
latest song lyrics of the hottest songs on the
radio, TV, and the Internet. Search by artist,
album, or title.
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