Penn State's libraries have large collections of sheet music (scores and performance parts). Use our library catalog to locate and borrow music scores and parts: 

• Click on "Advanced Search" and enter relevant search terms (such as words from the title, or names of composers) in the search boxes at the top of the screen.
• Scroll down to "AND have these attributes," and from the Format menu, select Musical Score.
• Click the blue Search button.

From the Resulting list, click on "View Availability" to see which libraries have the music. To request music from any library, use the "I Want It" button and select your preferred pickup location from the menu. 

Music scores are shelved using the Library of Congress Classification. This web page from the Library of Congress explains how scores and parts are organized on the shelves -- click on subclass M to see details: Music Scores Shelf Arrangement

   Contemporary Music Score Collection, UCLA Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library        

   Published by the UCLA Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library in eScholarship, the Contemporary Music Score               Collection includes digital, open access scores. For more information about the collection, please see the                   guide: https://guides.library.ucla.edu/ContemporaryScores. The Contemporary Music Score Collection is made           possible because of the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music. For more information about the     Davise Fund, please visit: https://www.library.ucla.edu/music/hugo-davise-fund-contemporary-music. 

   The publication includes the first printing of physical scores and parts and a digital score in eScholarship, the             institutional repository of the University of California. Scores considered for the Edition are student scores that win     Davise Prizes, UCLA faculty scores created for Davise musician and ensemble residencies, and scores                     created for Davise sponsored commissions or projects.