National Collection
Kansalliskirjasto
The sheet music publication collection of the National Collection
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Digital
The sheet music collection of the National Library contains Finnish art and popular sheet music publications starting from 1801.
Collection description
The sheet music collection of the National Library contains Finnish art and popular sheet music publications starting from 1801.
Some of the sheet music has been published online. The online sheet music collection is accrued in accordance with Act on Collecting and Preserving Cultural Materials (Laki kulttuuriaineistojen tallettamisesta ja säilyttämisestä 1433/2007). The online materials are accrued by searching for them programmatically on the public web and through deposited materials delivered by online publishers. Materials collected programmatically are deposited in the Finnish Web Archive and materials received as donations are saved in the Varia service. Both services can be used through the legal deposit workstations.
Material type
sheet music publications
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
FinlandMain collection
National CollectionParent collection
National CollectionCatalogue information
Card catalogue made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
More information about cataloguing
Finnish sheet music publications are described in the National Library Search from 1977 on. Information about sheet music published 1801–1976 is available in the sheet music card index of the Music Library on the 1st floor of Fabiania. The card index is also digitized in Doria-database.
Collection sizes
50.000
titles of publications
Parallel collections
Sheet music publication collectionProvenance
Legal deposit copy collection
Acquisition policy
Accrues statutorily as legal deposit copies, see Act on Collecting and Preserving Cultural Materials (Laki kulttuuriaineistojen tallettamisesta ja säilyttämisestä 1433/2007), http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/alkup/2007/20071433.