Scores, Sounds & Sources

• Links to Publishers & Retailers for sheet music
• Links to Inventories, Databases, Periodicals, Bibliographies
• Links to Music Software
• Links to Midi & Sound files

Facsimiles, Editions & Texts

• Acadia Early Music Archive (Gordon Callon)
• Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (Olivier Bettens)
• Ap Huw Manuscript (Greg Lindahl)
• Arbeau's Orchesography -
  • Musical settings (Joseph Casazza)
  • Complete text (Nicolas Graner)
• Arenaï Ensemble Database
• Cantigas de Santa María (Greg Lindahl)
• Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers (Andrew Casson)
• Centre Coral (Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals)
• Choral Public Domain Library (Rafael Ornes)
• Classical Guitar and Lute Tablature (Allan Alexander)
• Computerized Mensural Music Editing (Theodor Dumitrescu)
• Copenhagen Chansonnier
• Coppini Edition (Jens Peter Jacobsen)
• Da Costa Manuscript (Paulo Galvao & Roman Turovsky)
• Dancing Master: An Illustrated Compendium (Robert M. Keller)
• Early Italian Baroque Library (Studio Ahoyo)
• Early Music Online (Stephen Rose, Sandra Tuppen)
• Edition Musica Poetica
• 15th & 16th-Century Music (Art Levine)
• Free Sheet Music (Johan Tufvesson)
• Grégofacsimil (Dominique Crochu, Dominique Gatte, Michel Gatte)
• Guitar Tablatures (Donald Sauter)
• International Music Score Library Project
• Italian Madrigal Resource Center (Martin Morell)
• Italian Motets of the 17th Century (Dennis Collins)
• Lasso Scores (Maurice Amaraggi)
• Loire Chansonniers Indexes (Alan Cowderoy)
• Lute & Tombeau (Roman Turovsky)
• Lute Facsimiles (Alain Veylit)
• Lute Scores (Arthur J. Ness)
• Lute Tablature in Postscript (Wayne Cripps)
• Le monde de la musique de luth (Richard Civiol)
• Music of the Sarum Office (William Renwick)
• Music Editions by Christoph Dalitz
• Music typeset in ABC: Morley et al. (Laura Conrad)
• Musica Divina (Jeff Ostrowski)
• Musica Scotica (Kenneth Elliott)
• Musica Viva Free Sheet Music (Frank Nordberg)
• MusicTeX Score Library (M.A.B. Soloists)
• Neuma Digital Music Library
• Perth Score Archive (Alan Bonds & Anthony Maydwell)
• Pierre de la Rue scores (William Kempster)
• Playford's English Dancing Master (Jeff Lee)
• Recorder Music (Christian Mondrup)
• RowyNet - Free music scores online
• Sixteenth Century Ballads (Greg Lindahl)
• Sumer is icumen in (Bella Millett)
• Tesori Musicali Toscani
• Textes et musiques du Moyen Age (Christian Brassy)
• Virga Musica (Mike Heemskerk)
• Werner Icking Music Archive
• Western Manuscripts to c.1500 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

See also composer links & instrument links, both pointing to pages which sometimes include scores or text as well.

Notation tutorials & theory

• Early Music Theory (Ronald Woodley, et al.)
• Reading White Mensural Notation (Ray Brohinsky)
• How to read Gregorian Chant (Rick Kephart)
• Ligatures & Mensuration in the 1450-1600s (Alain Naigeon)
• Manuscript Studies (Stephen R. Reimer)
• Exploring Medieval Music Manuscripts (Erik Kaashoek)
• Boethius: Consolatio Philosophiae (Electronic publishing, University of Virginia)
• The abc Musical Notation Language

Links pages

• Free Sheet Music (SR Education Group)

Please let us know of any other locations.

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