Beethoven and the Invention of Western Music, Mus 2305: Books & Scores

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Online Scores and Indexes to Scores and Works of Beethoven

• Classical Scores
  A "full-text" library of almost 25,000 in-copyright and public domain classical scores and manuscripts, including many Beethoven works and arrangements.
• Other online score collections
• Ludwig van Beethoven : thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (2014)
  An index to the works of Beethoven, includes incipits (themes) and location of work in the collected editions.

• Das Werk Beethovens; thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner sämtlichen vollendeten Kompositionen (Kinsky, 1955)
  A thematic index to the works of Beethoven.

• 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.