Sheet Music Library (SML)

Community Musicians, building a worldwide Community Music.

The Sheet Music Library (PDF), #SMLPDF, is a not-for-profit, subscription library working toward the goal of building an open online collection of digitized sheet music, gathered now within this membership online library. It so far contains over 15,000 quality sheet music books and single musical scores (>231,000 pages) for all instruments, especially piano and guitar (TAB also), easy to download and print.

The Library is regularly uploading new scores. For the price of a single songbook, get a full Sheet Music Library!

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The Sheet Music Library (PDF) is an international project for educational purposes.

Welcome to YOUR Sheet Music Library! Community Musicians, building a worldwide Community Music.

During the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 a lot of musicians (professional, amateurs, and music lovers) strongly requested downloadable digital sheet music, available 24/7. So, the SML became was born; an appreciated, and nearly a must-have resource for the Community Musicians.

Our online Library is not just about scores and sheet music; it’s about Culture and sharing love for Music on a worldwide level.

” For the first time in history, all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind can be digitally preserved and made freely available, in every corner of the world, for our education, study, and appreciation and that of all our future generations. (…)”

“Digital technology can make the works of man permanently accessible to the billions of people all over the world. Andrew Carnegie and other great philanthropists in past centuries have recognized the great potential of public libraries to improve the quality of life and provide opportunity to the citizenry. A universal digital library, widely available through free access on the Internet, will improve the global society in ways beyond measurement.”

(This quote’s ref. at The Universal Digital Library)

Love for Music is our motivation.

The aim of this website is to provide beautiful and motivating sheet music, as well as tools and methods, for the piano and guitar players, and also music amateurs of all levels and ages. So everybody can feel the joy of playing music and also reading the scores while listening to the performances of other pianists and artists. Reading musical scores and listening to music are equally important as technique and music theory.

Subscribe, download and play! Please, check the music genres listing here.

What’s the content of the Sheet Music Library?

The Library mainly contents authors anthologies, collections, and songbooks. So, please, search preferably by the author’s name. Please, subscribe to download the complete scores.

Our online Sheet Music Library (PDF) includes a wide selection of Universal Music of all time and all genres in PDF format. These scores have then been digitized by experts, volunteers, and enthusiasts and shared with the public via the internet, with the hope of contributing to expand the universal musical language and the love of Music all over the world.

It contains classical and popular scores, but also a huge collection of Jazz sheet music and fake books, jazz theory and harmony books, piano and guitar method books, music and piano learning books. It also contains a great amount of American universal standards and modern music as well. Rock, POP, contemporary music, movie music, musicals scores, etc. Attached to the educational, theory and practice books you will also find the corresponding audio (MP3) files.

By joining and subscribing the Sheet Music Library (more info here), you help to share this project, thus promoting to universally share the Music Culture. The link to have full access to the complete Library will show up in your email shortly after you make the registration and the associated payment (USD 15.99). It may take some minutes. Remember to check your spam folder as well.

Why digital sheet music?

Sheet Music. Partituras. Partitions. Spartiti. Noten. Partitur. Partituur. Партиту́ра. 乐谱 楽譜 Sheet music digitized in PDF format for educational purposes. The name is not important. The only thing that matters is the Music on it. Until today, it used to be a handwritten or printed form of music notation using modern musical symbols. The first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type was the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (“One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music”, also known simply as the Odhecaton), an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice.

Nowadays, we have digital sheet music, usually in PDF, that can instantly be shared all over the world, even to remote places where it is difficult to find sheet music on paper. (If you need a PDF reader, click here). Anyone, anywhere, any moment, 24/7, can have (and print, if you want) the sheet music just at the right moment. Culture is currently shared on an unprecedented global scale through digital technology. In addition, more and more often, the performers or amateurs use tablets or similar devices to read and play music, so printing on paper is sometimes not even necessary, also getting a better organization of their scores.

Our online Library is not just about scores and sheet music; it’s about Culture and sharing love for Music on a worldwide level. After the full Registration, please check the email address that you have associated with your registration data. The link to have full access to the complete Library will show up in your email shortly after you make the registration and the associated payment. It may take some minutes. Please, remember to check your spam folder as well.

If you love Music, please donate us to help this site being up and running. Thanks!

Acknowledgements

This project has been possible thanks to the friendly cooperation and support of the AEC Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

We are also grateful for the helpful support of the Open Library!

And proudly supporting the mission and upholding the values of LIBER.