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Online Sheet Music and Music Scores

Library Music Source
Authorized users have access to over 300,000 pages of sheet music from over 35,000 works including the entire piano works of Chopin, all the songs of Schubert, all the organ music of J. S. Bach, and all the orchestra parts and scores of Beethoven, to cite only a few examples.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library

A series of four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.

International Music Score Library Project - Petrucci Music Library
An online source that includes 68,134 works, 240,305 scores, 24,324 recordings, 7,675 composers, and 226 performers.
Digital Scores and Libretti (Harvard University)
The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
MuseData (Stanford University)
The MuseData database is a project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Standford University.

Music Scores in the Ross Pendergraft Library

Scores to check out are located on the second floor compact shelving of the library.

Complete Song Cycles by Euseblus Mandyczewski (Editor); Henry S. Drinker (Translator); Franz Schubert
Call Number: M1620.S385 M25
ISBN: 9780486226491
Publication Date: 1970
Complete piano, vocal music of Die Schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, Schwanengesang. Also Drinker English singing translations.
Complete Symphonies in Full Score by Hans Gal (Editor); Johannes Brahms
Call Number: M1001.B813 C66 D6
ISBN: 9780486230535
Publication Date: 1974
Brahms was a master of musical structure, especially in his 4 symphonies. This text presents full orchestral scores of No. 1 in C. Minor, Op. 68; No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73; No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90; and No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98.
Volume 1, How to Play Jazz and Improvise by Jamey Aebersold Jazz
Call Number: MT68 A43, 1992
ISBN: 9781562241223
Publication Date: 1967
Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. CD includes blues in Bb and F, four dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, 24-measure song, II/V7 in all keys. Book includes transposed parts for all instruments. The CD includes Jamey playing exercises from the book. Hear the master clinician show you exactly how it's done! Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d) Includes: Scales/Chords, Developing Creativity, Improv Fundamentals, 12 Blues Scales, Bebop Scales, Pentatonic Scales, Time and Feel, Melodic Development, II/V7s, Related Scales and Modes, Practical Exercises, Patterns and Licks, Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices, Nomenclature, Chromaticism, Scale Syllabus, and more!
The King and I by Richard Rodgers (Composed by); Oscar Hammerstein (Composed by)
Call Number: M1503.R684 K564 1951
ISBN: 9780881880281
Publication Date: 1981
Complete vocal score to the classic with all 14 songs, including: Getting to Know You * Hello, Young Lovers * I Whistle a Happy Tune * Shall We Dance? * Something Wonderful * We Kiss in a Shadow * and more.
1776 by Sherman Edwards (Composed by)
Call Number: M1503.E39 S4 2005
ISBN: 9780634082276
Publication Date: 2005
11 songs from the Broadway production of this story of the Founding Fathers of the United States and their courageous fight for independence. Includes: Sit Down, John * The Lees of Old Virginia * Mama, Look Sharp * Is Anybody There? * and more.
Rent by Hal Leonard Corporation Staff (Created by); Jonathan Larson (Composed by)
Call Number: M1527.2.L37 R4 2005
ISBN: 9781423406266
Publication Date: 2005
The film Rent , based on the Tony -winning Broadway production, is a modern-day adaptation of the opera La Boheme . Includes 18 songs: Another Day * I'll Cover You * Rent * Seasons of Love * Take Me or Leave Me * What You Own * Without You * You'll See * Your Eyes * and more. Includes eight pages of color photos.