Search the University Library’s music books in our catalogue LUBcat. However, individual scores and music sheets are not included in LUBcat but considered as ephemera.

Search the University Library’s music books in LUBcat

All Swedish music since 1986 is included in the Catalogue of Swedish printed music in LIBRIS.

Search for printed scores and sheet music in LIBRIS

In Safir Jazz, rock and popular music you can check in which collection a particular tune is published.

Links to registers of songbooks and music collections can be found in Safir 

Older music

The University Library has several interesting collections of Swedish and international music, including Akademiska kapellet (the Lund University Academic Orchestra) with its music collection from the 1600s and 1700s, Otto Taussig’s Schubert collection, collections of folk music and manuscripts of composers such as Sten Broman and John Fernström.

The library's older, handwritten sheet music from the 1600s and 1700s is searchable in the international database RISM (Online Catalogue of Musical Sources). Please note that the database is incomplete.

Search fo rhe library's handwritten sheet music from the 1600s and 1700s in the database RISM

Older printed music scores are searchable in the bibliographies:

• Uppslagsbok för svenska musikhandeln (1889–1975)
• Svensk musikförteckning (1916–1994)
• Svensk musikkatalog (1976–1995)

The latter two are shelved in our reference collection on shelf Aaij.

You can search our most important Swedish sheet music and all international sheet music (up to and including 1957) in Catalogue –1957. Other unregistered sheet music is included in the library’s ephemera.

Search under the headings Musik Noter and Musik Andl Noter in Catalogue –1957 (subject section)  

How to request music

You request individual sheet music in advance and read it in the Special Collections Reading Room.

Printed music

You request printed music through our form

Handwritten music

handskrift [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (You request handwritten music by email)

Requests will be available after 1 pm the following weekday.

Music books

You can search for and request music books in LUBcat