Music

Brown University & Library of Congress provided historical sheet music. The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. The full collection consists of approximately 500,000 items, of which perhaps 250,000 are currently available for use. It is one of the largest collections of sheet music in any library in the United States.

Contains 4291 song sheets. Included among these American songs are ninety-seven British song sheets from Dublin and London. The collection spans the period from the turn of the nineteenth century to the 1880s, although a majority of the song sheets were published during the height of the craze, from the 1850s to the 1870s. Held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

Collections of dissertations from the American Musicological Society.

Database of copyright or license holders of musical compositions from ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

The collection largely contains music from and about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest.

This online collection presents several of the surviving examples of this music (both printed and manuscript) from the collections of the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Also included are the Manchester Cornet Band Books from the Walter Dignam Collection of the Manchester Historic Association External (Manchester, New Hampshire). The part books are presented both in their original order and grouped by song title. Several of the compositions from these part books are also presented in full-score modern editions created especially for this online collection.

Database of copyright or license holders of musical compositions registered with BMI.

The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin, maintained in the Special Collections Research Center.

Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites.
You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

This collection holds digitized images of some of the world's earliest printed music.

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier.

Collection of global music resources focusing on Africa and South America from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

Duke University Collection - provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

International Music Score Library Project! With 250,000 scores, IMSLP is a virtual library containing public domain musical scores.

Public domain print music held by the Ward Irish Music Archives in Milwaukee, WI.

Contains more than 250,000 recordings of live performances from about 1960 to present.

The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Main provides primary resources focused on the arts and culture of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Here you will find documentation of traditional music, community histories, legends and more. For music majors interested in the folksongs and folklife of this geographical area. Visitors to this website may also be interested in the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (see links to these websites on this page)

Consists of over 15,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1820 to 1860. This collection complements an earlier American Memory project, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885 as well as the Band Music from the Civil War Era and Sheet Music from the Civil War Era. I

Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

The Maine Folklife Center's archive of oral history recordings, includes primary research focused on folk music in the geographical regions of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

BYU provided collection of online Opera & Ballet scores and resources.

A historical collection of digital sheet music including music by women composers.

Digitized music collection from the Danish National Library.

The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI:PMH)

Sibley Library digital repository.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. On this website you will find a culturally diverse collection celebrating the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. Here the user will find recorded music from around the world, primary source material, brief articles and resources for teaching about folk music.

Snow College Music Department including information on the Horne School of Music, degrees, classes, and faculty.