Music Online: Classical Scores Library Collection is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works.

This growing multi-volume digital collection encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Medieval Period to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores. With more than 2 million+ pages, it supports the teaching and learning of music history, performance, composition, and theory through an extensive score collection enhanced by educational tools for study, annotation, playlist creation, and learning management system sharing. Detailed indexing supports discovery by title, genre, instrument, people, publisher, time period, and composer, helping students, faculty, and researchers work more efficiently across a broad range of classical music study.

Key Benefits

Single Destination For Digital Score Needs

Single Destination For Digital Score Needs

Music students and faculty can access more than 2 million+ pages of scores in one place, reducing the need to search across multiple resources. Detailed indexing supports discovery by title, genre, instrument, people, publisher, time period, and composer.

Saves Time And Budget

Saves Time And Budget

This large in-copyright digital score collection helps libraries reduce the need to curate and license individual scores while avoiding the cost and effort of maintaining physical score collections, including binding, circulation, replacements, and shelf space.

Supports Music Study

Supports Music Study

Educational tools enhance teaching learning workflows with options to print most scores, use and annotate them on mobile devices, create playlists, and share through learning management systems.

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Included Content / Coverage

All major classical musical genres and time periods from the Medieval Period to the 21st century, full scores, study scores, piano scores, vocal scores, works by nearly 5,000 classic and contemporary composers, canonical composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky, contemporary composers including Kaija Saariaho and Peter Maxwell-Davies, works by women, Black, Hispanic, and Asian composers.

Key Themes Include

Classical music history, performance, composition, music theory, score study, discovery of lesser-known contemporary works.

Fast Facts

Content Format

Text

Highlighted Subjects

Music history
Performance
Composition
Music theory
Opera
Instrumental music
Vocal music

Type of Content

Digital scores

Platform

Access on the Alexander Street video platform

Territorial Rights

Worldwide

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