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Music

Tips, techniques & resources to help with your research papers, projects, artistic and performance study and practice.

Find scores using Discover@MU

Discover@MU includes musical scores. Search a composer's name (surname first!) as an author.

Examples: León, Tania        Saariaho, Kaija        Britten, Benjamin     

Then use the Refine Results menu to filter by format - Music Scores.

*Note: you may find listings for online scores that are licensed by UMKC. Unfortunately the vendors don't allow us to share online resources as we share print resources. To exclude these from your search add NOT "online resource" to your search. See an example.  

nkoda - digital score library and app

All content is accessible exclusively within the nkoda app, available for iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows.

How to access nkoda

It’s very important to carefully follow each of the steps in the instruction linked below, to ensure that you are signing in as a member of the MU community. If you are off campus, first connect to MU's VPN (Virtual Private Network). Please read through the following sign-in process instructions before accessing nkoda:

Copyright information

  • Scores are not downloadable due to copyright.
  • Screenshots are also not permitted due to copyright. If you attempt to screenshot within the app, it will lock you out.

Tutorials

Short feature-based clips - nkoda app tutorial playlist:
Full app demo:

Advice and answers from the nkoda team is available

Scores availably for free online