LibGuides: Music: Streaming Music &amp; Online Resources

Free Databases, Indexes and
Archives (open web)

Archives Hub The Archives Hub provides a gateway to thousands of the UK’s richest archives. Representing over 220 institutions across the country, the Archives Hub is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support your research.Within the collections represented on the Hub there is a huge diversity of content, from the archives of industries, institutions and researchers to the letters and manuscripts of writers and poets.
The Aria Database A collection of information about opera and operatic arias. The database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. It also contains information on available scores and sound files that can be purchased.
Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Digital Archives Contains the unique collections of the Beethoven-Haus: Music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology.The database also includes related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. It does not include the dissertations themselves, however it does include references to RILM, Dissertation Express, publication details, and internet availability when this information has been provided by authors.
LiederNet Archive Collects and presents the texts to art songs, partsongs, madrigals, and choral works that are based on stand-alone poems. Frequently updated, the archive indexes about 83,000 texts with translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others.
Loeb Digital Scores and Libretti First and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School
University of Tennessee Song Index Valuable database for singers. Use this tool to find out which anthology holds the song you need so you can find which book to sign out!

Free Databases: Music in Canada

Canadian Music Centre The Canadian Music Centre has been supporting, preserving, and celebrating the works of Canadian composers since 1959.
Canadian Music Periodical Index
Library and Archives Canada - Music Collection Access to Canadian recordings, an externsive collection of print music and over 250 archival collections.
Library and Archives Canada - Sheet Music Collection
Library and Archives Canada - Virtual Grammophone Virtual Gramophone is a multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound, providing an overview of the 78-rpm era in Canada. The database contains information for 78-rpm and cylinder recordings released in Canada from 1900 to 1950, as well as foreign recordings featuring Canadian artists and/or compositions. Each database record provides information about an original recording, such as its title and performer, relevant dates, and details about the label and disc.
Canadian Opera Resource An online database that is designed to make discovering Canadian opera and their creators easier and more accessible

Composer Archives with Scores
(open web)

Free Online Sheet Music
(open web)

19th Century California Sheet Music A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs
Art Song Central Free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers browsable by composer, voice type, language and the title of the source. IPA transcriptions are now available for every German, French, Italian and Latin song in the index.
Choral Public Domain Library CPDL is an Internet-based free sheet music website which specializes in choral music. Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts and translations which can be freely downloaded and used.
Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Duke University)
Contemporary Music Scores Collection (UCLA)
Digitized Score Collection (Bavarian State Library)
Early Music Online (British Library)
Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France)
Historic American Sheet Music From Duke University, this site provides access to digital images of over 3000 pieces of 19th and early 20th century sheet music.
Hofmeister XIX (digitized 19th c. catalog of printed music)
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library A virtual library containing public domain music scores as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
Loeb Music Library Digital Scores Collection (Harvard)
Music-Scores.com Digital classical sheet music for download. Selections in the public domain can be downloaded for free; for others there is a cost.
Music Library Digital Scores Collection (University of Washington)
Music Treasures Consortium (Library of Congress)
Mutopia All of the music on Mutopia may be freely downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version Offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
New York Philharmonic Digital Archives (scores and parts)
Public Domain Song Anthology (pdf)
Sheet Music Consortium an open collection of digitized sheet music from several collections including contributions from the Library of Congress, Duke University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and the National Library of Australia
Sibley Music Library Scores (Eastman)
Staff paper Print your own blank staff paper!!!!
Women Composers Collection (University of Michigan)

How to make a request for a print book

How to make a scan request for a song from a print anthology

How to find permalinks to items in UM databases

Oxford Music Online (Grove Dictionary Online)	Oxford History of Western Music	Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Music Periodicals Database	Cambridge Histories of Music	Encyclopedia of Popular Music
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Dissertations & Theses	Music Index Cambridge Core (Music)	JSTOR Theses Canada Portal

Streaming Music & Video	Scores/Sheet Music	Online Dictionaries
Naxos Music Library	Classical Scores Library	Grand Robert & Collins en ligne
Music Online: Classical Music Library	Naxos Sheet Music Library	Grand Robert en ligne
Opera in Video	Library Music Source	Oxford English Dictionary Online
Freegal		Oxford Dictionaries (various)
Kanopy National Film Board (Canada) Campus Medici Music Online: American Music Music Online: Contemporary World Music Music Online: Jazz Music Library Music Online: Popular Music Library Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries Curio.ca Naxos Video Library

Credo Reference	New York Times	Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Historical Abstracts	Times (London) Digital Archive	Victorian Popular Culture
Dissertations & Theses	Globe and Mail	Nineteenth C. Collections Online
ERIC (Education)	Washington Post Historical

Music: Streaming Music & Online Resources

Music Reference & Research:

Streaming Music & Video

Scores/Sheet Music

Online Dictionaries

Interdisciplinary Sources for Music Research:

Free Databases, Indexes and
Archives (open web)

Free Databases: Music in Canada

Composer Archives with Scores
(open web)

Free Online Sheet Music
(open web)

Music: Streaming Music & Online Resources

Music Reference & Research:

Streaming Music & Video

Scores/Sheet Music

Online Dictionaries

Interdisciplinary Sources for Music Research:

Free Databases, Indexes and Archives (open web)

Free Databases: Music in Canada

Composer Archives with Scores (open web)

Free Online Sheet Music (open web)

Free Databases, Indexes and
Archives (open web)

Composer Archives with Scores
(open web)

Free Online Sheet Music
(open web)