Print Scores
Print scores for many instruments and ensembles are located in the third floor stacks in the M call number. Look for the purple sign on shelf number 92.
Because they're so small, most scores are placed in binders with other scores. Feel free to pull out the ones you need!
Online Music Scores
- International Music Score Library ProjectThe largest collection of public domain music on the Internet. Also includes many works by living composers under creative commons licenses.
- BandMusic PDF LibraryPublic domain music including marches, waltzes, rags, theater music, and more.
- Choral Public Domain LibrarySearch or browse for free choral scores. Look for the PDF icon to download your music.
- Sheet Music InternationalFree public domain sheet music library of notable composers like Bach, Chopin, Gershwin, Mahler, and Stravinsky.
- Contemporary Music Score CollectionOpen access musical scores from UCLA, many with unique and small group instrumentation.
Music Audio
- Music Online: Listening This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive and highest quality streaming audio collection to support the teaching and research of music. It provides access to over 11 million tracks covering all the key musical genres. Music Online: Listening includes what was formerly known as Classical Music Library and much more.
- HooplaUse your Wicomico Public Library Card to sign up. Includes not only free popular music, but streaming movies, television, ebooks, and audiobooks too.
Music Articles and Reference
- African American Music Reference This link opens in a new windowPart of Music Online. Reference sources on Black musicians and musical styles including hip hop & rap, blues, folk. spirituals, jazz, ragtime, opera, gospel, and rock.
- Classical Music Reference Library This link opens in a new windowBrings together more than 17,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 1200 essays, entries by more than 700 expert contributors, and hundreds of audio examples focused on world music.
- Music Index This link opens in a new windowThe Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages.