Music: Popular / Folk

By David Berger and Chuck Israels.
Open educational songbook. Available in pdf or Sibelius files, 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance.

Ad-free access to IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project). Run by Project Petrucci LLC, it is the largest collection of freely available scores/recordings on the Internet, sharing the world’s public domain music scores in any genre (classical, folk, and so on) and scores of any contemporary composers who wish to release them to the public free of charge. Visitors can browse the works of some 17,875 composers and almost 500,000 scores by time period, nationality, and instrumentation. Information on the composer, key signature, publication date, and style is posted on each page. A keyword search is also available. PDF versions of the scores can be downloaded and printed. Many works also have MIDI and/or MP3 recordings, which can be heard immediately or purchased online.

The Irish Sheet Music Archives website is the home of the online sheet music collections found in the Ward Irish Music Archives located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Copies must be ordered for $10 each.
Visit Browse Collection to browse and search over 5,000 pieces of Irish and Irish American themed sheet music in our collections.

A consortium of libraries building an open collection of sheet music primarily published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

From the University of Maine - Some in public domain, others are still under copyright and cannot be downloaded.

Hosted at UC Berkeley

From the John Hay Library at Brown University