The Sheet Music from ebrary tutorial will assist you to:
- Access ebrary and learn about the ebrary sheet music collection.
- Browse the music collection by medium.
- Conduct an advanced search for individual music scores.
- Print selected pages from a music score.
ebrary is one of UWF Libraries electronic content providers. It offers access to thousands of eBooks from leading publishers. The coverage spans all academic subject areas and also includes thousands of music scores. ebrary's Sheet Music is a collection of musical compositions that includes:
- Americana Collection (19th and early 20th-century popular piano and vocal music)
- Choral (198 Cantatas by J. S. Bach)
- Flute (including Flute Methods)
- Opera (selected vocal scores by Puccini, Verdi and Wagner)
- Organ
- Piano (including music for Two Pianos, Piano Duet and Piano Methods)
- String Quartets (score and parts by Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Hofstetter, and Mozart)
- String Quintets (score and parts by Mozart)
- Violin (including Violin Methods)
- Vocal (including arias, lieder and Vocal Methods)
ebrary's Sheet Music contains over 8,300 music scores, thus providing students and faculty easy access to a portion of the standard classical music repertory for five solo instruments (flute, organ, piano, voice, and violin) plus a selection of chamber, choral, orchestral music, and vocal scores.
As a reminder, the John C. Pace Library also houses a collection of print music scores. Check the online catalog for availability and call numbers.
You may also want to visit the ebrary homepage to take an online tutorial and learn more about the general academic collections.
If you are having difficulty finding music scores and materials, contact the Information & Reference Desk (850-474-2424) to consult with a reference staff member. The music reference librarian may also help with your search and identify alternative sources and materials.
ACCESS
- Option One:
From the UWF Library Homepage, look for the Find online database and search for ebrary. From the results list, click either ebrary (General) or ebrary (Sheet Music). If you selected the general category, look for the Sheet Music tab in the navigation bar, once you are connected.
- Option Two:
From the UWF Library Homepage, go to the library catalog and do a title seach (Title begins with option is best). Type the word ebrary, from the results list, click ebrary or the ebrary digital music collection. Then follow the Holdings link to get to ebrary.
HOW TO BROWSE THE DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC COLLECTION
You may click one of the seventeen categories listed on the left frame to browse the collection. After choosing one of the categories, an alphabetical list of titles of pieces will appear under the composer's last name. Please note that the sequence is strictly alphabetical, therefore many related pieces or movements from a single composition (under the same opus number or title), might be listed separately and out of its logical sequence. Please note that in the categories list music for Flute is under Woodwinds, while Violin is under Strings.
HOW TO SEARCH FOR A SPECIFIC SCORE
Go to the ebrary's main page and select the Search tab, then choose the Advanced search mode.
Example 1- In the first search box, type a composer's last name (for example, faure) and select the Author option.
- In the second search box, type a title (berceuse) and select the Title option.
- Make sure the option Sheet Music is selected, before pressing the Search button.
- From the result list, click the underlined title, the blue View Arrow, or the treble clef icon to see the score.
- In the first search box, type busoni and select the Author option.
- In the second, type sonata and select the Title option.
- To add a search box, press the More button below the last search box.
- Type the phrase op.29 (without any space in between) and select the Text option.
- Make sure the option Sheet Music is selected, before pressing the Search button.
- From the result list, click the title, the View button, or the treble clef cover to see the score. Note that there are two separate scores: the violin part (11 pages) and the piano accompaniment (37 pages).
Note that the result is the solo flute within a two-page score.
Example Two
VIEWING
To view the individual pages of the score, use the appropriate directional arrows in the tool bar,
or jump to any page using the sheet of paper with an arrow icon:
HOW TO PRINT
To print a score, you need to be in the viewing mode. From the toolbar on top of the music score, select the print icon (third from the left).
When a printing search box appears, select five pages at a time (that is the maximum number of pages you may print at once). For example, if the score has eleven pages: first print pages 1 though 5; then print 6 to 10; and last page 11.
Alberto Hernández, Humanities Research Librarian
1 August 2007