Table of Contents for Finding Scores
Library Content:
Online Resources:
Music scores for performance and study can be found in the M. Douglas Music Library on the 3rd floor of the Leatherby Libraries and also online through open access resources and subscription databases. See the other tabs to learn more.
To browse for scores on the shelves, try the Music Call Number Guides [add link].
Search for scores in the Leatherby Libraries by using the online catalog using this search box or by following the instructions below:
Search for scores held in other libraries, which you can have sent to you through Interlibrary Loan.
When you find a score you want to borrow, click "Request Item" to submit an Interlibrary Loan request through ILLiad.
Some scores are only available online through this database.
Source for many of the descriptions and items above: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/onlinescores
If the quality of a score is poor, consider searching for the score in the Library Catalog instead.
Source: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/onlinescores
Sheet Music is defined in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition as:
A term applied to a single item of published music, typically a piano piece or a popular song in “short score” (i.e., a version in which the accompaniment is reduced to a piano part and usually also to chord symbols or tablature so that it may be realized on plucked string instruments).
While the Leatherby Libraries does not actively collect sheet music, there are a number of online archives that contain thousands of sheet music.
Souce for many of the links and descriptions above: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/onlinescores
