UC Library subscribes to the SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

To borrow scores or DVDs from the SOUNZ Library, contact Reuben de Lautour

Archived snapshot on the Wayback Machine

Ludwig van Beethoven: music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures.

Includes Bach, Handel, Mozart, Vivaldi (PDFs)

Digitised images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library’s Chopin collection, which includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Contains high-quality scans of public-domain musical scores and sound recordings of over 12,000 composers, contributed by libraries and collectors worldwide. Includes historically significant imprints as well as compositions and arrangements by contemporary musicians who publish online under Creative Commons agreements. Browse or search

Includes first and early editions and MS copies of 18th and early 19th C music by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers; also 19th Copera scores, seminal works of musical modernism and music of the Second Viennese School

The musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart. This title is also held by the UC Library in print format

Numerous composers. Includes orchestral, chamber, piano, song and opera repertoire

A compilation of onlines sources for digital copies of music scores, categorised by general score Collections, composer-specific collections, sheet-music collections and song sheets.

Popular music resource: browse by genres, moods and themes or search for artists, albums and labels. Includes articles and music maps that show the influence on styles over time

NZ popular music: the people, labels and scenes, with links to recorded music and music videos, interviews and performances, images and discographies

“The Australian Music Centre (AMC) is the national service organisation dedicated to the promotion and support of art music in Australia.… Our important work covers contemporary classical, contemporary jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art.… The AMC houses and curates the most comprehensive catalogue of Australian music … includes more than 30,000 items by approximately 900 Australian artists.”

Aims at pointing “students and researchers to scholarly online resources on classical music in the British Isles. Significant subscription resources will be noted, but the emphasis of this guide is on open-access sources.”

Topically organised portal of open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists (Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University)

A free, non-commercial, educational repository that explores connections between families of expressive style. Users can travel the world of song, dance and language through the Wheel Chart and the Map and find thousands of examples of the world’s music, dance and other expressive behaviour.

Features audio collections reflecting music, art and culture. Collections include the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the Other Minds collection, the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th century found in the 78 RPM collection and oral history projects.

Launched in 1999 and previously know as Muzic.net.nz, “Music.NZ provides one of the most extensive resources on the New Zealand music industry, offering everything from musician & band biographies and photo galleries to detailed charts and all the latest music industry news.”

An open database with information on musical instruments held in public collections (mainly in Europe). It includes photographs, detailed descriptions and in some cases recordings of the instrument.

A collection of “links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites.”

Catalogue of items held by NZ libraries

Over 5,000 orchestral sets and 3,000 choral sets for hire

Find catalogues under “Collections and Services”

Catalogues link at top of page, including the Sound & Moving Image Catalogue

Combined UK and Irish academic, national and specialist library catalogues