Research Guides: Music scores online: Popular music

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Note: some of these are hard to download, but are listed here to keep all the popular music together.

UCLA Sheet Music Consortium
Currently, the largest digitized sheet music consortium in existence. Visitors can browse the site or select the 'featured repositories' tab and browse by institutions listed, which includes the number of records held by contributing institutions. UCLA does not host files, but provides links to records held at each institution's site.
American Popular Songs, 1854-1923 (NYPL)
African American sheet music (Brown University)
Nice search engine, including by LC subject heading.
Archive of Popular American Music
Pop sheets with an emphasis on Iowa.
Nineteenth-century sheet music in California (UC Berkley)

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier
69 fiddle tune transcriptions in manuscript
911Tabs
All kinds of guitar tabs, mostly user-provided, fragmentary, and without rhythmic signs.