LibGuides: Music Resources for Graduate Students: Scores

Finding Scholarly Editions

Composer scholarly editions are arranged alphabetically by composer in the M3 section upstairs in the Music Library.

Oxford Music Online and the Index to Printed Music can help you locate your pieces within scholarly editions.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Search encyclopedia entries on all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, and institutions
Index to Printed Music This link opens in a new window
Find scores for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions, series and sets from ancient Greece to the present.

Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office by Andrew S. Hughes; Andrew Hughes
Call Number: Music Library Reference BV185 .H83 1982
ISBN: 0802076696
Publication Date: 1995-05-04

RISM Online Catalogue of Musical Scores This link opens in a new window
Search for records for music manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises held in music libraries, archives, churches, and other institutions around the world. This is an open access database.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Search digital copies of nearly every work printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America

To find recordings in the library catalog,

Go to the Music Library home page
Click on Scores Only in the search box, which will limit your search to music recordings.
There is also a list of links to online scores under Online Scores / Sheet Music

Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online (FTCO) This link opens in a new window
An online thematic catalogue of all compositions attributed to Girolamo Frescobaldi (Ferrara, 1583 – Rome, 1643), and a database of the early sources, modern and facsimile editions, and literature.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I This link opens in a new window
This database includes over 60,000 downloadable scores, and features especially good coverage of contemporary music.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Search digital copies of nearly every work printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, including musical works.