The world’s largest widely-available printed music collection.
Our collection spans the spectrum of styles and periods from string quartets, choral music and piano for two and four hands and up to 32 hands for eight pianos, to madrigals and motets, opera, and contemporary popular music. All are available for borrowing. We lend to most locations around the globe.
A variety of types and titles
Our collection of more than 300,000 titles of printed music is shelved and grouped into six major categories:
- Choral Music
- Keyboard Music
- Instrumental Music
- Vocal Music
- Maine Music Collection
- Reference Section
Collection Highlights
- Multiple copies of major choral works.
- Complete parts for chamber ensembles of all sizes.
- One of the world’s largest collections of vintage and popular American vocal sheet music.
- An unparalleled collection of piano pieces for multiple performers.
- The official Maine State Collection of music about Maine and by Maine composers.
The only genre we don’t collect and manage is band music. We invite you to visit Chatfield Brass Band & Music Lending Library in Chatfield, Minnesota for this genre.