Research Guides: Music Education: Scores

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nkoda
Use your @mail.umkc.edu or @umkc.edu email address to register. Digital scores from nkoda. Requires app download and creating a personal account.. You must use your UMKC email address ending in umkc.edu. See Institutional Access: IP Range Authentication for additional instructions on creating your account and downloading the app. Questions or problems? Contact the Music/Media department.
Music and Performing Arts
Streaming video (opera, dance, theatre); streaming audio (jazz, popular, world, folk, and classical); classical scores.

Beyond UMKC Library

As a UMKC student, you can borrow books, scores, recordings, and more from other libraries and have them delivered to UMKC, for free.

Contemporary Music Score Collection | UCLA Music Library
Digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series and the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores.
Cuarteto Latinoamericano's Virtual Library
Scores of Latin American works for string quartet.
Issuu - ScoreOnDemand
Perusal scores from publishers, including contemporary. Mostly view-only.
New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
Every document in the New York Philharmonic Archives from 1842 through 1970. Includes correspondence, marked scores and parts, contracts, and minutes from meetings of the Board of Directors — as well as all public documents from 1970 through today.
Shining a Light
21st Century Music From Underrepresented Composers

RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
Records about manuscript and printed music sources, 1500-1800. Includes: Series A/I (individual printed music 1600-1800); Series A/II (music manuscripts 1600-1800); and part of Series B/I (printed music anthologies 1500-1550). Series B/IV (Manuscripts of polyphonic music, 11th-16th centuries) online in DIAMM http://www.diamm.ac.uk/ Series C and full Series B available in print only.

University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music - Institutional Collection: Musical Scores
Scores and books in the public domain, many unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.