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Music: Scores and Printed Music

A guide of recommended resources for research in music

Indexes to Scores and Printed Music

Classical Scores
A "full-text" library of almost 25,000 in-copyright and public domain classical scores and manuscripts. Important composers and publishers are represented.

Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music : a guide to their contents
compiled by Ann Harriet Heyer.
An index to music in collections in particular the historical and monumental collections in the M2 and M3 LC classification. 
      Music Ref. ML113 .H52 1980


RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 (RISM Series A/II)
Published by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicale this is an index to manuscripts and printed scores stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections around the world.
   Print RISM volumes (RISM Series A & B) in Music Librarian's office 

How to Find Scores

The score and printed music indexes may not have direct links to the scores identified in the resources.  However, many of scores may be found in the Beckwith Music Library or can be borrowed from our partner libraries, Bates and Colby. 

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