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Wayfinders for our collections, tools, and servicesMusic research online: essential tools to explore Western art music: Access digital scores
Sources to help you construct an outline for research into a historical periods, genres, composers, instruments, and theoretical topics
Search these score databases
Stanford subscribes to several score databases containing standard Western music literature in full score, performing editions, and orchestral parts.
- Music online. Classical scores libraryIncludes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
- Babel scores : contemporary music onlineA selection of contemporary scores from the past 40 years.
- LibraryMusicSource.comStandard repertoire for solos, chamber music, and orchestral parts.
In addition, the following source is freely accessible on the web:
- IMSLP: the International Music Score Library Projectfree online public-domain scores
IMSLP provides downloadable public domain (i.e, published prior to 1924 in the US) scores. Image quality is uneven, and accompanying information is sometimes incomplete; proceed with caution. IMSLP was recently reviewed in the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
