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Music Studies - Selected Internet Resources
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ACRL | Music: A survey of some quality resources
Libraries and Archives Canada | Music
University of Oregon School of Music | Internet Music Resources
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
From Indiana University.
Historic Music
Band Music from the Civil War Era
Digitized sheet music from Music Division of the Library of Congress.Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
Historic American Sheet Music 1850-1920
A database of digitized sheet music from Duke University.Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 is an addition to the American Memory Collection of digitized historical materials at the Library of Congress."Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
Voices Across Time: General Music History by Region, Subject, Genre, and Period
"Voices Across Time was created to help teachers harness the power of song as primary source to supplement any secondary American Social Studies, Language Arts, and Music curriculum."Voices Across Time: Timely Tunes
"Voices Across Time was created to help teachers harness the power of song as primary source to supplement any secondary American Social Studies, Language Arts, and Music curriculum."William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Music Education
CAIRSS
A bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine.MusicStaff.com
Find music teachers, music schools and music lessons anywhere in the United States by zip code.
Sheet Music
Choral Public Domain Library
"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."Gutenberg:The Sheet Music Project
Mutopia Project: Free sheet music for everyone
"Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance. For the most part, the musical pieces created have been chamber music, with composers such as Brahms and Beethoven."
"The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others."
Open Directory | Downloadable Music Sheets
"Includes music in the public domain (older pieces now out of copyright), new arrangements and editions which are offered free of charge, new compositions, and historical manuscripts."
Sheet Music Archive
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
"Downloadable editions of public domain classical music."
"The Sheet Music Archive is part of the Werner Icking Music Archive archive. It contains ready-to-print sheet music, most in the form of PDF files... A few scores are only available in compressed Postscript format."
Other
Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music
Resources from the University of Washington Libraries.HymnWiki
"The primary purpose of HymnWiki is to make sheet music and information available to the public about hymns, hymn compilations, religious compilations of sheet music or hymn-like poetry, anthems, children's songs (the sort included in religious compilations), patriotic songs, motivational hymn-type songs, and some traditional music (as traditional tunes are often associated with hymns; these should only have pages if they relate to hymns somehow)."
Indiana University School of Music | William and Gayle Cook Music Library
A comprehensive list of music periodicals available electronically.MusicAustralia
"You can find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services, all from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. MusicAustralia covers both heritage and contemporary music, and includes all formats, styles and genres."Operabase
Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 145,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 7 languages.Smithsonian Global Sound
"Smithsonian Global Sound is an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media."Song Lyrics; Libretti
A list of links to lyrics sites compiled by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
Disclaimer: The websites above are suggestions to aid in your research. They are not intended to be a specific endorsement of content, other than that the Randall Library believes it to be a useful research resource. They are not a comprehensive list of resources for this topic and should not be the researcher's only resource. The Randall Library is not responsible for the validity or relevance of content on the websites above, nor does it purposefully mean to mislead the researcher towards a specific topic, philosophy, or concept.
Last Update: 18 February, 2008 13:01