Directory of Manuscripts Resources

Scanned images of historical sheet music.

Resources in This Category

19th-Century American Sheet Music

http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/sheetmusic/
Scanned historical sheet music. Digitization project at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Henry Purcell

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/purcell.html
History and some scanned manuscripts.
Historic American Sheet Music

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/
The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in America between 1850 and 1920.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html
From the U.S. Library of Congress. Tens of thousands of songs and instrumental pieces registered for copyright in the post-Civil War era. Digitized images and some audio clips.
Sheet Music from Canada's Past

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/sheetmusic/index-e.html
Features Canadian sheet music from the First World War era and from the pre-confederation era, from the National Library of Canada.
The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
Covers 1780-1960. Scanned images of public-domain music.
Vatican Renaissance Music Exhibit

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/e-music/Music.html
Renaissance manuscripts.

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