Digital Scores: A Guide to Online Notated Music Sources: Sheet Music (Mostly Pre-1923)

Portal for accessing sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society for sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists, or publishers, as well as music about the state.

Portal site for searching across the shared metadata from over 40 digitized sheet music collections held by research libraries in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Australia (listed here). Continually expanding, currently with over 350,000 titles. Hosted by the UCLA Digital Library Program.

Source for digitized sheet music published in Canada before 1921 as well as music by Canadians or about Canada published internationally. Includes patriotic and parlor songs, piano pieces, sacred music, and novelty numbers.

Retrieves over 24,100 digitized sheet music publications dating 1779-1929 (from a total collection of over 29,000 pieces of mostly American popular music dated to 1980). Only the title sort is presently functional. The right sidebar offers some search refinements; other options for exploration include advanced search and "browse by" options on the homepage. Housed at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University. Indexed in the Sheet Music Consortium. Site copyrighted 2013.

Digitized collection of over 480 American sheet music titles dating 1902-1945 housed in the Margaret Herrick Library, located in the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study, Beverly Hills, CA. Maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Contains over 1,450 publications of minstrelsy, abolitionist, Civil War, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, and World War I-era music and early African American musical theater dating 1820s to early 1920s.

A collection of mixed materials, including sheet music, documenting the life of Abraham Lincoln, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and related topics.

Over 2,500 pieces focused on the American Civil War (1861-65).

Includes nearly 2,500 examples of music printed or "copied in manuscript" in the United States or the colonies through 1820. Forms an early record of musical life in America and the colonial period.

Focuses on music about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest, including materials from the Ashford Collection.

Contains nearly 13,500 commercial publications, vanity press editions of amateur compositions, and unpublished manuscripts acquired by the Library of Congress between 1914 and 1920 documenting World War I in American popular culture

Contains over 1,300 Yiddish American popular songs published through 1922 compiled from the Irene Heskes Collection (drawn from the archives of the Hebrew Publishing Company in New York) and other Library of Congress holdings.

Small collection of over 300 titles focused on the Yiddish-language musical stage, plus art songs, Hebrew and Yiddish language folk songs, and religious music.