Humanities Librarian
Get Started: Suggested Resources
Tools to help you find Music Scores and sheet music, both printed and online.
View our library's large collectiion of music scores and sheet music through our catalog or in person, located on the second floor of Randall Library.
You can find more resources in the tabs menu, but below is a short list of some of the top go-to resources for this course.
Recommended Databases
- Victorian Popular CultureAn essential resource for the study of popular art, art history, and entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consists of four components: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment; and Moving pictures, optical entertainments & the advent of cinema.
Recommended Websites
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music LibraryInternational Music Score Library Project with over 102,000 works that have scores or parts on Petrucci Music Library.
- ChoralWikiChoral Public Domain Library. Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
HymnWiki is a site dedicated to hymns, children's songs (those associated with churches and religion), religious anthems, church music, other music commonly grouped with hymns, and compilations of such.
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire. - MutopiaThe Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.
Open Music Library brings together music scores from the world’s digital collections as well as peer-reviewed journal articles and books. Currently in Beta.
Search for Music scores
Use the search box below to look for books, videos, journals, and other items held in Randall Library's collections. Note that this search can't be used to find journal articles--for that you'll need to either use a database or go to the library's main search at https://library.uncw.edu/.
After searching the Library Catalog using a composer's name (author) or by the title of a work or a keyword, use the Limit/Sort button at the top of the page, then choose MUSIC SCORE in the Material Type box.
While searching for music items in the stacks on the second floor, keep this in mind:
M = the music itself (i.e. scores, printed music, recordings)
ML = books about music history and literature
MT = books about music theory, music education, and instruction and study (including many method books)
View a list of common call numbers for each category below.
Blank Sheet Music
Click here for the link to PostScript and PDF formats of blank music paper.
