Research Guides
Music Performance: Home
Online Scores
- A-R Editions Online Music Anthology This link opens in a new window
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Music from antiquity through the romantic era, with emphases on the Middle Ages to the Baroque. - Babel Scores This link opens in a new window
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Online library of musical scores composed within the last 40 years. - Music Online: Classical Scores Library Volume 2 This link opens in a new window
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Provides online access to scores, including those by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and more.
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music LibraryPublic domain music scores and parts.
- Women Composers CollectionA collection of mostly 19th- and early 20th-century digitized musical scores by women composers held at the University of Michigan Music Library.
Browse scores virtually
Scores in the Music Library are shelved according to the Library of Congress classification system. Follow these steps to virtually browse our scores:
1) Identify the LC range you want to browse. For example, are you looking for string quartets? Those are shelved in M452.
2) Use the 'Browse' search in UW Libraries Search to browse by call number.
3) In the 'Browse by' pulldown menu, select 'Browse by Library of Congress call numbers.' Enter the LC range you want to browse. Use the arrows in the bottom right to navigate.
How to Search for a Score
Suggestions for searching the UW Libraries catalog (substitute your instrument as needed):
An advanced search for "subject contains"
cello and piano music 21st century
violin music 20th century
viola and piano music 20th century
keyword searches such as
contemporary cello music
20th century viola music
21st century violin music
