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Sheet music & scores

The University Library receives all the musical scores published in Sweden in the form of legal deposits. All musical scores from 1958 onward are included in our uncatalogued collection of ephemera. You request these sheet music in advance.

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
Search for printed scores and sheet music in the Catalogue of Swedish printed music (in LIBRIS)
All Swedish music since 1986 is included.
Links to registers of songbooks and music collections can be found in Safir Jazz, rock and popular music
Here you can check in which collection a particular tune is published.

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)
The database is incomplete.

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)