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Scores (Printed Music)
Table of Contents
Most of UConn's musical scores are housed in the Music
& Dramatic Arts Library (in the Fine Arts Complex). They are listed
in HOMER, the library catalog.
Best HOMER
Search Strategies
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Note: for music score searching, it is
best to AVOID the Author and Title searches.
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Option 1: Keyword Boolean Search
- Good for mixing terms or trying various word forms.
- Allows limiting by format.
- Good for songs or works with distinctive titles.
- Not as good for generic form titles (e.g., sonatas).
Quick Search Instructions
Option 2: Prolific Author/Composer Search
- Provides well-sorted list of a composer's musical works.
- Has cross references to "alternative" titles.
- Very effective for "form" titles (such as sonatas or symphonies),
musical works that are known by many titles, or works that have many
versions or arrangements (e.g., full and vocal scores, operas with
excerpted arias, arrangements, etc.).
Quick Search Instructions
Both searches are very useful.
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HOMER Search Guides (Music Emphasis)
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Music on CD-ROM
UConn has some printed music on CD-ROM (PDF format). The regular score
searches described above and in the Finding
Music guides will also find music on CD-ROM.
To browse records for all the CD-ROMs, go to HOMER
and do a Keyword Boolean search on "CD Sheet Music"
(type the quotes). Add and [composer] if desired.
Example: "CD Sheet Music" and schubert
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Music in Collected Sets & Anthologies
Finding
Music (#6): Anthologies & Sets (PDF) -- Many musical scores
are printed in anthologies or large, multi-volume sets. The anthology
or set names may appear in HOMER, but the individual works do not. This
guide shows you how to use music indexes to identify music in large
sets or anthologies.
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Scores at Other Libraries
Scores are often available at other libraries. You may be able to drive
to a local library, or the library's Document Delivery / InterLibrary
Loan (DD/ILL) service may be able to borrow one for you. To use DD/ILL
you will need a complete citation. Here are options:
- WorldCat
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This database lists the holdings of thousands of other libraries.
Use WorldCat to get the citation. If you find a score you like,
click on the ILL link (InterLibrary Loan) in WorldCat to
request a loan from another library. You can also use Document
Delivery / InterLibrary Loan to get scores. (See a librarian
the first time you do this.)
WorldCat is also useful for "sleuthing" (e.g., identifying
a musical work's composer, alternate titles, numbers, or the larger
work in which it may belong) or identifying sound recordings for
purchase.
- Other
Music Libraries or Other
Library Catalogs -- Consult a local library.
- Google is another fast way to
find other libraries or scores (for purchase).
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Scores on the Web
Musical scores are increasingly available on the Web. Here are some
major sites.
Academic Initiatives
Digital Mozart Edition --
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA). A digitized edition
of most of Mozart's works.
Early
Chopin Editions (University of Chicago)
Preservation
Project: Musical Scores (Eastman's Sibley Music
Library)
VARIATIONS:
Prototype: Online Musical Scores -- Public-domain
classical music (Indiana U.)
Other Initiatives
Gutenberg:
The Sheet Music Project -- Includes classical music scores.
International Music Score Library Project
(IMSLP) -- Wiki-based project to post public-domain editions
and music by today's composers. Includes the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (1851-1899) and
most of Chopin's works.
Werner Icking Music Archive
(WIMA) -- Mostly public-domain editions of early music
(sometimes the first modern
editions). Also has music from today's composers.
Guides to Other Online Scores (General or Classical)
Printable
Music on the Web -- Guide by Marty Jenkins (Wright State)
Online
Music Scores (To Download) -- Many links
Classical Sheet
Music Page -- Sheet music publishers and databases on the Web
Free Sheet Music Downloads (includes lists of links)
Schubertline -- Eighteenth
to twentieth-century vocal music (requires Scorch2 plugin). Transposes.
Classical
Music MIDI, MP3 & Sheet Music Archives
Sheet Music Library Collections
Digital Librarian:
Locating Lyrics, Sheet Music, Librettos & Scores -- Metalist
of topical song indexes and collections of digitized sheet music.
Sheet
Music Collections -- Indexes to sheet music collections in other
libraries. Some have digitized music (including "classical");
others require that you contact the libraries to request reproductions.
(By Duke U.)
Sheet Music Consortium
-- Open Archives Initiative: UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, and Duke
Virtual
Music Libraries (U.Va) -- Nice collection of links to useful digital
collections.
I Hear America
Sing -- Library of Congress. Historical sheet music published 1800-1922.
Includes early pieces by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and other popular
composers, as well as arrangements of classical tunes by Bach, Beethoven,
Schubert and other famous classical composers.
Devotional
Choral Public Domain Library --
7500 scores. Also had MP3 and MIDI files.
The Cyber Hymnal -- Over 2700
Christian hymns and gospel songs, multidenominational
The Electronic Hymnal -- Hymns,
church music and sacred songs, multidenominational
The Lutheran Hymnal --
Hymns in MIDI format, some arrangements for purchase
Music Resources
at TheoTech: An Internet
Primer for Pastors, Musicians & Worship Planners
Commercial, For-Profit Sites
Byron
Hoyt & ebrary -- Offering thirty-day trial. Over 5,000 classical
sheet music and educational titles available online to libraries worldwide.
Link dead 5/18/5.
J.W. Pepper E-Print Digital
Library -- Few free downloads
Schubertline -- Lieder,
songs, and arias tranposed to any key using the free software Sibelius
Scorch. View and listen for free; some preliminary free downloads may
be available.
SheetMusicDirect.com
-- No free downloads
Sheet Music Now -- classical
and jazz sheet music to download, print and play; institutional subscription
is a new option (not currently available at UConn).
Sunhawk.com -- No free
downloads
These online sheet music links were originally adapted from Sibley
Music Library's page 10/2003.
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