The Performing Arts Collection at Campbell Library houses about 50,000 scores to help students explore repertoire for their instruments and voice types. For suggestions on how to search the collection for scores and find information about your instrument or ensemble, please see the Instrument and Voice Guides. For help finding individual songs, see the Vocal Music guide.
Provides comprehensive coverage of black American musical expression from colonial times to the present, including blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms in a wide range of material types. Includes sheet music and lyric sheets.
African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
This multi-volume resource provides online access to more than one million pages of classical scores on one optimized, easy-to-use interface. Includes:
All major time periods from medieval to contemporary Diverse genres including choral works, symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde All major score types: full score, study score, piano score, and vocal score Major composers’ repertoires in all genres In-copyright editions from well-known publishers
Classical Scores Library is a series of three volumes and contains the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 45,000 musical scores. Classical Scores Library, Volumes I, II and III serve as an integral resource for music students and faculty, encompassing all major classical musical genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, appreciation, and theory for a variety of scholars.
Provides International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts to over 11,000 arias and art songs.
IPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts which was developed to benefit singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. More than 1300 aria texts and 7500 titles are translated with International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions, and these literal translations featuring the texts in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English to the works of all the great song and opera composers as found in the most common anthologies. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song, opera and music in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.
Published by the UCLA Music Library in eScholarship, the Contemporary Music Score Collection includes the digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, the first open access edition of new music published by a library, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
A database of public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge.
CPDL currently hosts free scores of at least 35600 choral and vocal works by at least 3549 composers. Many of these scores are editions created by volunteer editors.