Free Scores for RCS Music Students!

Okay, everyone knows about IMSLP, otherwise known as the Petrucci Music Library.  It's free.  (Check that you're not breaching copyright in the country where you live).

http://imslp.org/

If you're a university or conservatoire music student, your library may well subscribe to additional, premium, services offering you more "free" music.  (The library pays, so patrons don't have to.)

FREE SCORES FOR RCS MUSIC STUDENTS!

Get music free online through Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library - if you’re off-campus, you’ll need to login first.  

Classical Scores Library, Volume I* (part of the MOP collection)

Classical Scores Library, Volume II* (part of the MOP collection)

Alternatively, if you search the whole Alexander Street Press music database, you’ll find videos, recordings AND these scores.  Start here, selecting the music drop-down before you search:-

 http://search.alexanderstreet.com/ 

Look down the side to single out videos, audio or scores.

MORE FREE SCORES TO DOWNLOAD ON-CAMPUS

Download sheet music from LibraryMusicSource (on-campus only):  

http://www.librarymusicsource.com/  

ESSAY TO WRITE?  COPY EXCERPTS FROM THESE SCORES!

Use your computer’s “snipping tool” to copy little excerpts for musical examples to back up your arguments or illustrate what you're describing.

Do You Know the Score? We do, when it comes to Free Sheetmusic!

Free scores online

• You may already know about the Petrucci Music Library, otherwise known as IMSLP.  Watch out for copyright issues (different countries have different laws) but apart from that, it's a brilliant resource. http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page 
• The Internet Archive is another useful place.  Not very visually attractive, but it's the content that counts.  Very handy for historic material.   https://archive.org/

And now, free to our registered staff and students ...

What we really want our performers to know about, are the new offerings from Alexander Street Press:- 

We subscribe to Alexander Street Press Classical Scores Library Collections 1 and 2.  That means our staff and students can download anything they find there.  There's classical music for everyone, whatever they sing or play.  Do take a look.  (If you're off-campus, you'll need to login.)

• Classical Scores Library Advanced Search (one search searches all)
• Classical Scores Library Homepage
•  Classical Scores Library 2 Homepage

.Last but not least, we also subscribe to LibraryMusicSource.com - not an Alexandra Street Press resource - which you can access on Conservatoire premises. Like the Petrucci Music Library, it's better for older music, but it's still a useful place to look for core repertoire.

We are the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - here to help our performing arts community with their information needs!