Sheet Music and Song Links
Indexes to Sheet Music Collections
- The California Library Systems Cooperative
Song Index
180,000+ song titles, 2,000+ items indexed (song books, magazines, and other collections). Compiled from the collections of SJVLS Libraries and California Library System Reference Centers. Maintained by the San Joaquin Valley Information Service. - Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno. Go to the ALIS Library Catalogue, then select "Music Scores". - Santa Cruz Public
Libraries
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries' sheet music database contains more than 12,000 individual pieces of popular and folk/traditional music, issues of Sheet Music Magazine from 1977 up to the present, and songbooks in the Central Branch reference department. - Patchogue-Medford
Library
"This is an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. There are approximately 102,786 entries from 1,118 books which have been indexed."
Commercial Sites for Sheet Music
- Hal Leonard Online
"Your resource for information on Hal Leonard sheet music, music books, software and videos." Helpful as an index to song books. Good for more contemporary music. Go to "Product Search". - J.W. Pepper
"World's Largest Sheet Music Retailer". Search for individual sheet music or sheet music in collections. Check your library holdings for collections.
Song Databases (for information about songs)
- BMI
Access to song title registration information contained in the BMI repertoire, including foreign works registered with BMI for performance in the United States and arrangements of works in the public domain. Represents more than 6.5 million works and over 300,000 songwriters, composers and publishers. - ASCAP (American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
"ASCAP is a membership association of more than 275,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music." - SESAC Repertory
The SESAC repertory database contains works in the SESAC repertory for which SESAC, Inc. has compiled information from various sources. The database lists songs or compositions, titles, composers, authors and publisher information on musical compositions, including copyrighted arrangements of public domain works. The information is updated regularly and may change on a daily basis.
Older Songs (prior to c1920)
- The Lester S. Levy Collection
of Sheet Music
"The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960." - Historic American
Sheet Music
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920. - American
Memory Collection, Library of Congress
32 searchable collections including African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 and Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885. -
University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
"The University of Colorado, Boulder, Music Library has a large sheet music collection with approximately 150,000 items including examples from the late 18th through the 20th centuries. The sheet music digitized and presented here was originally published between 1890 and 1922."