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Opera music guide: Sheet music

a guide to the library's printed and electronic opera materials

Sheet music

You can search for sheet music belonging to the University of the Arts library's collections at Arsca. Check out the music search instructions in Arsca.

You can find the electronic sheet music services acquired by the library in the database list.

Printed sheet music

The collection of the library of the University of the Arts has opera scores, piano scores and individual arias with piano accompaniment.

The shelf classification of sheet music for opera and stage music can be found in the instructions of the search service Arsca.

Classification categories of opera materials in the Töölö campus library:

F: Vocal music

H: Stage music (piano scores), Ha-class Piano scores can be found on the other side of the Cd- recordings collection shelves.

Libretos can be found in shelf section 9.4 of the book collection 

 

Composers' collected works and anthologies can be found in the reading room in classes Xa and Xb. They cannot be borrowed, but you can take copies of them for your own use.

Kuopio Library's opera materials are in shelf category 78.351

Search tip how to set a search term

The picture shows a model example of how to set a search term in the Arsca search service combined with the name of the author of the work.

When searching for printed materials, you can use English keywords instead of Finnish keywords as well (f.ex. aariat > arias).

You can find keywords and their translations in the Finto service.
 

Advanced search in Arsca.

Free digital sheet music

  • Forte notation: free sheet music  The Forte sheet music site, with some free sheet music. The sheet music can only be opened with the Forte notation software, the free version of which can be downloaded from the site.
  • Free-Scores.com French site with a collection of free sheet music and a link directory of free sheet music sites. Also acts as a publishing platform for composers and arrangers who want to share their music for free. Also includes a separate sheet music shop.
  • Gallica The French National Library's collection of digitised material. Lots of sheet music, music manuscripts, books, letters, etc.
  • IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library A large classical music wiki-based site.
  • Mutopia Project Classical music.
  • Neue Mozart Ausgabe / Digital Mozart Edition An online version of Mozart's collected works maintained by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum.
  • Nkoda Uniarts IDs also give you access to the Nkoda e-note service.
  • Score Exchange Specialising in new music, lots of free sheet music.
  • Score On Line  Downloadable digital notes.
  • The Sheet Music Archive A site focusing on classical material, two free downloads per day
  • SheetMusicFox.com  Also includes popular music, some downloadable and some just links to different sites.
  • Sibley Music Library  Eastman School of Music's digitised sheet music collection.
  • Taju  Manuscripts and sheet music from the Sibelius Academy repository and museum collections. Some of the copyrighted scores are available only from the Taju computer of the Sibelius Academy Library, and some are available to art university students by logging into Taju with Uniarts ID.

Digital opera sheet music behind paywall

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