Research Guides: Honours Project Research for Music Students: Music Scores & Music

Music Scores

Online scores

Online scores offer 24/7 access to public domain and some copyrighted scores. You can print them out but not download or save them for later use.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of over 25,000 music scores, including full, study, piano, and vocal scores, plus piano reductions
Dates covered: Medieval - Current
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Provider: Alexander Street
Full-text: Yes
nkoda This link opens in a new window
This digital music score application provides access to millions of pages of scores from the world’s leading publishers, including Bärenreiter, Boosey & Hawkes, Breitkopf & Härtel, Faber and Casa Ricordi.

Users can browse, download and mark up the scores. From solo piano scores to orchestral hire materials, all content can be accessed on your phone, tablet, or desktop.
Dates covered: Varies
Concurrent users: 10
Provider: nkoda Limited

An unlimited number of Registered Users can be authorized, however no more than 10 may access the content at any time.

Print scores

Printed scores

Printed scores are located at Level 4 of the Multimedia Learning Centre in the Main Library. You can use the Library OneSearch to search for printed music scores. Use the refinement tools to narrow the search to find only Music Scores Available in the Library.

Online Music

Online music

Online music offers 24/7 streaming audio recordings of classical and jazz music. Many include useful info from accompany booklets of CDs. Particularly useful if you are looking to listen to a wide variety of interpretations of your repertoire before rehearsals or lessons.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
A huge online collection focused on classical music - over 2.3 million tracks. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.
Dates covered: Various
Concurrent users: 7
Provider: Naxos Digital Services
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
This is an online collection of the world’s musical and aural traditions. The 45,000+ tracks cover a variety of genres including American Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, Old Time Country, American Indian, World, Jazz, Spoken Word & Sounds, and Children’s.
Dates covered: Various
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Provider: Alexander Street Press