Music: Sheet Music / Lyrics

"This site has 7,000+ Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, and more."

"UT Libraries has a large collection of sheet music published between the early 1800s and the mid-1900s...Approximately 1,500 of these songs and instrumental works form this digital collection, and are also part of the Sheet Music Consortium, which provides access to the sheet music collections from many libraries."

This digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University of approximately 500,000 items, one of the largest collections of sheet music in any library in the United States.

Before the phonograph and radio, Americans learned the latest songs from song sheets. Search this collection by keywords or browse by title, composer, or publisher.

The Loeb Music Library at Harvard University "is creating an expansible resource of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores that be freely available via the Web for classroom and research use at Harvard and to scholars all over the world."

This Baylor University collection of sheet music from the late 18th to early 20th century includes first editions of such works as Jingle Bells and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, as well as works of prominent American composers.

Digitized images of over 3000 pieces of American sheet music from 1850 to 1920 rom the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

Special collections at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University. "The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music." You can search or browse.

"...47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra."

“The University of Rochester's Sibley Music Library is the largest academic music library in North America. It has been engaged in an NEH project to digitize its public-domain music scores, emphasizing scores not widely held by other libraries and not digitized elsewhere."
"Foreign language titles are not translated, and the search is designed for people who are already familiar with the scores that they need. Other websites offer digitized scores, but this site is unique because of its size and ease of use and because its content is free.” –CHOICE, Jan. 2012

This digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University of approximately 500,000 items, one of the largest collections of sheet music in any library in the United States.

International Music Score Library Project, "the free public domain sheet music library," was started February 16, 2006. Based on the wiki principle, the site provides downloadable PDFs, that you can search by composer name, time period, genre, or instrumentation.