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- ABC Musical Notation Language - "Language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin." Developed and maintained by Chris Walshaw. (Many links to midi files.)
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music from the collections of Brown University. (Library of Congress American Memory).
- Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana - Library of Congress collection has over 200 sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music.
- American Antiquarian Society - Worcester, Massachusetts. Their collection of Sheet Music "consists of about 60,000 pieces of instrumental, vocal, secular, and religious music by both American and foreign composers that were printed through 1880" and includes a Topic Classification for Sheet Music with Pictorial Lithographed Covers.
- America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets - Library of Congress collection of single printed sheets, with lyrics but no music, most of which dating from the 1850s to the 1870s. Consisting of scanned images of the original sheet along with the lyrics, the collection offers "a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War." Searchable by keywords and browsable by titles, names and publishers.
- American Song Lyrics Index - "Text-only database features lyrics to popular American songs selected from the sheet music collection in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. The bulk of the content dates from about 1830 to 1930 and was published in the United States. More information about the songs in this database may be found in the Sheet Music Index."
- American Song Sheets
- Ames Hymn Collection - Brian M. Ames provides lyrics & sound files
- Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - By David Dodd, librarian and co-author of The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography.
- Aria Database - Robert Glaubitz's "diverse collection of information on over 1200 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles."
- Arnold Schoenberg Center - Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts and teaching materials.
- ASCAP's ACE - Database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work. For most of the titles, you'll find some of the artists who have made a commercial recording.Search by title, writer, publisher or performer. More detailed search options are also available. There is also a Database of Works Restored to Copyright Protection.
- Bach Cantatas - Walter F. Bischof provides access to the texts of all Bach cantatas, as well as oratorios, passions, masses, and motets. All texts are in the original language, i.e. most are in German, some are in Latin, and then there are bits in Italian and in Greek.
- Bagaduce Music Lending Library - Located in Blue Hill, Maine, the library's "mission is to collect, preserve and lend printed music, and to provide music education programs. We have grown to be a national resource center for choral, instrumental, vocal and keyboard music, both popular and classical, and for teaching and reference materials." Provides access to their Online Catalog.
- Band Music from the Civil War Era - Library of Congress online collection brings together musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of the American musical past. This collection features over 700 musical compositions, as well as 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of brass band music in performance.
- Base de données sur la musique vocale de la Renaissance "française" - Database of vocal music of the "French" Renaissance.
- Becky's (or Dragon's) Campfire Songbook
- Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music - Smithsonian Institution Libraries collection is organized by category.
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library of Portugal) - There is a Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Digital Library). Among the items newly digitized (Obras novas digitalizadas ) are a number of high resolution images of musical scores (Música impressa) a musical score manuscript by João Domingos Bontempo, Quinteto para piano e cordas. Porbase is the online catalog.
- Bibliothèque nationale du Québec - Among their online collections is Livres et partitions musicales with musique imprimée (sheet music).
- BMI - You can search the BMI Repertoire allows you to search by songwriter/composer, title, publisher, artist and alternate title.
- bobdylan.com - Columbia Records provides a searchable database of Bob Dylan's published lyrics and audio samples of every track on every album. Includes a catalog of albums, and an alphabetical or chronological list of songs.
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file.
- British Columbia Sheet Music
- British Library Music Manuscripts
- California Sheet Music: 19th Century - "Virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900." Includes RealAudio sound files of 11 works.
- California Song Book
- Fourth Edition, Published 1913 by
The Students Co-operative Society, University of California, Berkeley. (Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library University of California, Berkeley.)
- Cantaria - Bardic song archive of lyrics for over 250 songs, most with accompanying sound clips. With title and first line index.
- Center for Popular Music - Middle Tennessee State University searchable databases include a
Sheet Music and Broadside Collection,(searchable), a
Song Book Collection, (searchable),
Music Trade Catalogs (searchable),
Periodicals (searchable general & secondary serials),
Performance Collection: posters, playbills and programs (searchable) and a Manuscript Archives (searchble).
- Ceolas: TuneIndex Search - James Stewart's master index of hundreds of celtic tunebooks, with a total of over 55,000 entries. With links to other notation sites.
- Chansons d'Amour - French-Burgundian repertory of chansons from the late 15th century contains texts and notes of 33 three-voiced songs. From the Royal Library in Copenhagen [Det Kongelige Bibliotek] collection of E-manuscripts.
- Chansons d'Amour ["The Copenhagen Chansonnier"] - "Perhaps most interesting and valuable medieval manuscript of music in the Royal Library, occupies a place apart among the relatively few manuscripts which hand down the French-Burgundian repertory of chansons from the late 15th century. The manuscript contains texts and notes of 33 three-voiced songs. One song - "Iactens secours" - has been added in the 16th century. The manuscript ends with essays of modulation."
- Chansons françaises - Mickaël Foursov, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Chicago Jazz Archive - University of Chicago
- Chopin Online Catalog - "Descriptive catalog of a collection of early editions of the works of Frédéric Chopin." (University of Chicago Library)
- Choral Public Domain Library - With over 8716 scores, many with sound files. Managed by Rafael Ornes.
- ChoralNet: the Internet Center for Choral Music - You can search for choral repetoire by author or title, or browse by composer.
- Classical Guitar Music -Scores for music by Dionisio Aguado, Fernando Sor, Matteo Carcassi, Napoleon Cost, Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Legnani, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Barrios Mangore, Francisco Tarrega,Andres Segovia, Antonia Cano.
- College Music Society - Consortium of college, conservatory, university and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music. Provides a searchable Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada.
- Cowpie Song Corral - Country music lyrics (listed by artist) and search engine.
- Crucible of Empire: the Spanish American War - PBS. With popular songs from the Spanish-American War era in their Sheet Music Gallery.
- Cyber Hymnal - "Over 2,600 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, sound, background information, photos, links, MIDI files and scores you can download."
- The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium By Robert M. Keller - Published by John Playford in London in 1651, the volume contained the figures and tunes for 105 English country dances. Other editions followed and eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. The database is searchable, or browsable by edition or title.
- Danman's Popular Songs Library
- Digital Archive of Popular American Sheet Music - UCLA. Includes sheet music with a Middle Eastern theme.
- Das digitale Beethoven-Haus - Bonn. The Digital Archives contains "5,000 documents on 26,000 coloured scans of high quality, 1,600 audio files (music examples, audio letters) and 7,600 text files." There are also audio files. Try a search, for example, for Diabellivariationen.
- Digitales Liederbuch - German site provides song texts (some with guitar chords). With author and title index.
- Digital Scores and Libretti - Loeb Music Library, Harvard University. "Thousands of pages of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores drawing on Harvard's extensive collections of first and early editions of Bach family composers, Mozart, and multiple versions of 19th-century opera." You can search or browse the collection.
- Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - Developed by Dick Greenhaus and friends and hosted at the Mudcat Cafe, a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music, this searchable index contains lyics and music for over 9000 songs. There is a Title List and a useful collection of links to other online resources.
- Disc-O-Logue - National Library of Canada provides this "catalogue of French-language popular music recordings available in Canada published between 1962 and 1979, developed from the archive maintained by Louise Lamothe. Part of the archive, a card catalogue of 90,000 song titles maintained by Madame Lamothe until 1985, has been automated. The resulting database is the heart of this Web site." The Search Page allows you to search by title, composer, performer, format, label, issue number or all fields. The Searching Guide provides database insights, searching tips and sample searches and Best Sellers: Top 50 Charts provides lists from 1963 to 1966 and Encyclopedia of Music in Canada has information on Songs.
- Dorothy Starr Sheet Music Collection - "Special collection of the San Francisco Public Library with over 300,000 pieces of music for choir and ensemble, opera scores, children's music, popular, folk and art songs." You can search their database for over 10,000 popular songs.
- Duke University Sheet Music Index - "When complete, this index will provide access to the approximately 20,000 uncataloged sheet music items in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. The bulk of the collection is from about 1830 to 1930 and includes material selected for the American Memory Project. Most, but not all, music was published in the United States but there are a significant number of English, German, and Viennese items as well. More Viennese publications from the Weinmann Collection may be found in the Duke Online Catalog. A sample of lyrics have been transcribed and are available in the American Song Lyrics database." Also provides Sheet Music Sampler.
- E. Azalia Hackley Collection - "Over 600 pieces of 19th and 20th century sheet music published between 1799 and 1922...the first archive to document the contributions of Blacks to the performing arts." (Detroit Public Library).
- Electronic Hymnal
- Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music-related iconography - By Maurice B. Wheeler and Mary Jo Venetis, First Monday, vol. 10, no. 10, October 2005.
- Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music - Located at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the collection is described as "the world's largest lending library of orchestral performance material, with over 21,000 titles and growing. It houses virtually the entire standard repertoire, and is also known for its many rare and out-of-print works available for lending around the world."
- Film Score Rundowns - Cue-by-cue musical analysis by Bill Wrobel of classic film and televison scores. For example, there are 35 rundowns of Bernard Herrmann scores. (There is also a Bernard Herrmann Society site, hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway.)
- Five Centuries of Scottish Music - Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
- Florida Sheet Music Collection - Collection spans late 19th and entire 20th century and is indexed alphabetically by title. University of South Florida Library - Special Collections Department.
Includes the NationsBank African-American Musical Heritage Collection, a collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of sheet music documenting the contributions of African-Americans to the nation's musical heritage at the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library. Provides composer (names of individual who contributed), title, publisher & date. Browsable by title or names of individual who contributed.
- Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources - Compiled by Jane Keefer, a librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins Unversity. "Some 2,100 recordings are included with a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable number of recordings of old-time fiddle and banjo music." There is a Keyword Search for either peformers or music titles, a title index, a performer index and a Publishing Source List.
- Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - Lesley Nelson's collection of MIDI tunes, lyrics, information, historical background, and tune related links.
- Folkmusic.org - "Definitive online folk music resource"; includes artist biographies, discographies, pictures, sound bites, lyrics, guitar tablature, tour schedules. The Find page may help locate lyrics.
- Folksong Index: Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs (Volkslieder Verzeichnis) - Collection of folksong lyrics and midi files, primarily for pre-1922 songs, created and maintained by Richard Kopp. The site, which is in German and English, has a search engine and a What's New page. Specialized sections include Irish Folksongs, Scottish Folksongs, German Folksongs, French Folksongs, Shanties and Sailor Songs and American Civil War Songs.
- Folkways Database Search - Smithsonian Institution database allows you to search the 35,000 track database of all the Folkways, Cook, Paredon, Dyer-Bennet and Smithsonian Folkways recordings. In the Advanced interface you can search for artist/performer, recording title, track title, year, record label, instrument, recording number or any text. (The database does not include lyrics.)
- Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Sheet Music - Baylor University. "One of the few collections of its kind and size in the country. Acquired by Baylor University in 1965, this collection of approximately 30,000 titles was the life-long pursuit of the avid and well-respected sheet music collector for whom the collection is named."
- Free-scores
- Free Sheetmusic from Johan Tufvesson - 17th & 18th century
- German Music Database - Lyrics
- German Language Song Index (Deutschsprachiges Liederverzeichnis)
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the Opera Index. Includes midi and RealAudio files, searchable database of librettos, festival schedules, plot summaries, images, song scores, newsletter articles and links to other sites. Created and maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
- Goldband Recording Corporation - Photographs, sound recordings and biographical essays in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Historic American Sheet Music - "Provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920." (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.) See also Historic American Sheet Music at the Library of Congress.
- Historic Sheet Music Digital Collection - From the Cedar Rapids sheet music collection, Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa.
- Hoagy Carmichael Collection - A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University's extensive collection of materials pertaining to the life and career of the master songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981). You'll find sheet music, over 500 lyric sheets, a selection of sound files, photographs, correspondence and supplemental research material.
- HymnSite - Searchable site features MIDI hymn and psalm tunes from the 1989 edition of the United Methodist Hymnal and the Standard Psalm Tune Book compiled by Henry E. Dibdin in 1851.
- Irish Folk Songs - This compilation of lyrics to 325 Irish songs is searchable and has a list of titles
- International Lyrics Server - View lyrics to more than 62,000 songs from database of over 130,000 songs.
- Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg) - Complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are now available for free on NMA Online. See Mozart's entire musical works now free on Net, CNET News, December 12, 2006.
- Joan Baez - With Lyrics of all the songs written or co-written by Joan Baez.
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 - From the University of Pennsylvania Library Center for Electronic Text & Image.
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) - Copenhagen. Has a collection of e-scores and sheet music including Chansons d'Amour - Copenhagen Chansonnier with song list.
- Kraus Libretti Collection - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas. "The collection of 3,421 items was donated in 1969 by New York rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. It consists primarily of texts of Italian opera, but also includes Italian cantatas, serenatas, oratorios, dialogues and Passions. Dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth century, the collection documents musical performances by Italian, French, German and Austrian composers given mostly in Italian cities, but also in Vienna and elsewhere."
- Leader in Lieder - German site has lyrics for 18,000 folksongs, and hymns, some with MIDI files.
- Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust. Searchable and browsable by Composer, Poet, Language, First Line and Title.
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - "Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old. Covers only, with 13-field description.
- Let It Resound! Sheet Music in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection - "Represents a broad scope of African American musican genres of the late 19th and 20th centuries." Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Lib-web-cats: Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - Links to online catalogs in over 4,700 libraries worldwide. Online library catalogs often provide useful information on sheet music. Try using such Library of Congress subject headings as Popular Music - United States - Texts; Songs, English - United States - Texts; Musicals - Excerpts - Librettos; Popular instrumental music; Folk songs; Dance music; Vocal music; Piano music; Bugle music; Marches (Piano); Cantatas, Secular - Scores; Masses - Vocal scores etc. Other access points for library catalogs include Library Catalogs Around the World, Libweb: Library Servers via WWW, National Library Catalogues Worldwide, National Libraries of Europe and LibDex: the Library Index.
- Library of Congress Catalogs - Backups include the Z39.50 Gateway and the Experimental Search System (ESS) (no longer being maintained).
- Library of Congress Online Catalog - Try using the Left-Anchored Phrase Search which will perform a phrase search.
- Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust. Searchable and browsable by Composer, Poet, Language, First Line and Title.
- Listen.com - Find music from more than 120,000 artists
- Loeb Music Library - Harvard University. The Internet Resources for Music Scholars has a good collection of links to sheet music.
- Lutheran Hymnal - MP3, lyrics & sheet music.
- Lyrics Library - Collection of links to Lyrics web sites.
- LyricSearch.net - Lyrics search engine
- Lyrics Search Engine
- Lyrics World
- Lyrics World - Lyrics search engine
- Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) of Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed. The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number.
- Mississippi State University Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Sheet Music Collection - Over 5,000 pieces of music
- MIT Lewis Music Library Sheet Music Collection - The collection, entitled Inventions of Note, contains approximately 75 pieces of sheet music consisting of "popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."
- Music Archives: Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs Lieder aus allen Ländern - Lyrics and MIDI files.
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - Library of Congress site consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." Search by keyword or browse index of authors, subjects and titles.
- Music in the Public Domain - With an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 songs now in the public domain in the United States.
- Music Library Association - Offers:
- A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians
- Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines
- Sheet Music Collections
- Useful Resources Online
- Sheet Music Information and provides
- Sheet Music - Links to Libraries and archives with significant holdings of sheet music.
Other music cataloging sites include Princeton's Music Cataloging and Music Cataloging at Yale.
- Musica International Database - Searchable database of choral repertoire.
- Musicals.Net - Searchable site provides songlists, lyrics, links, synopsis for over 80 popular musicals.
- Mutopia - Public domain music downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (at both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews are available as MIDI (.mid) files. Composers include T. Arbeau, J.S. Bach, A. Banchieri, L. van Beethoven, M. Carcassi, F. Carulli, M. Clementi, J. Dowland, G. Giordiano, S. Joplin, L. Milan, W. A. Mozart, N. Paganini, C. Saint-Saens, E. Satie, and F. Schubert.
- My Sheet Music
- Nederlands Muziek Instituut - Provides access to records for sheet music and books through Publiekscatalogus KB (Catalog of the Nederlands Muziekinstituut)
- New York Public Library - The American Music Center's historic Collection of more than 60,000 scores and recordings of works by American composers has been transferred to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (See News.) The New York Public Music Division collection is searchable via CATNYP: Research Libraries Online Catalog. There is also a Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- 19th-Century American Sheet Music - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "57 volumes (approximately 2250 titles) of sheet music have been indexed. The contents of 32 of these volumes (approximately 1200 pieces) have been fully scanned and are available on this site." Browse by:
- publisher
- composer
- date
- Nissimo - Free sheet music. (A search for Bach retrieved 15 results.)
- OperaGlass - Opera information server. See Libretti and Opera Librettists.
- Organ Sheet Music Collection - Collection of over 1300 individual pieces of sheet music owned by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
- Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index - "Index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. Approximately 78,000 popular songs are included in the 995 books which have been indexed."
- Peter, Paul & Mary - Official site maintained by Noel Paul Stookey provides lyrics to all recorded songs, organized by album.
- Pianopedia - Eric Brisson's database contains (as of July 8, 2006) "892 composers. 50 countries, 5433 works, 15558 movements or excerpts."
- Project Runeberg - Swedish digital text project offers sheet music. An example is Quatre Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte avec l'Accompagnement d'un Violon by Olof Åhlström. (For others see Nordic Music on the Internet and Free sheetmusic compiled by Johan Tufvesson.)
- Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Maintained by Lyle Neff.
- theRolling-Stones.com - With lyrics, arranged alphabetically.
- Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music - Part of the American Music Collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
- Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music - Lilly Library collection at the University of Indiana contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios.
- Schubertline - "Online score service for singers."
- Score on Line
- SESAC Repertory Online - Search by title, writer or publisher..
- Sheet Music Consortium - "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." (UC Los Angeles, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University and Duke University.)
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past - Currently features sheet music published before Confederation (1867) and during the era of the First World War (1914-1920), selected from the historical collection of the National Library of Canada.
- SongFile - Lyrics to 100,000 songs, searchable by artist, album or song title.
- Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only). (See Musiktexte and Noten).
- Statens Musikbibliotek (Music Library of Sweden) - The Boije Collection consists of guitar music from the early 19th century.
- Sunhawk Corporation - Digital music publisher and sheet music store that allows you to play and print sheet music using your home PC with a large collection of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and 20th Century compositions available.
- Talking-Heads.net: Lyrics
- Templeton Music Collection - Mississippi State University Libraries
- Union Songs
- University of Colorado at Boulder Music Library Digital Sheet Music Collection - "Approximately 150,000 items including examples from the late 18th through the 20th centuries. This web site provides access to digital versions of some of the categories of sheet music within our physical collections, a new avenue to this interesting genre. The sheet music digitized and presented here was originally published between 1890 and 1922."
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, Online U.S. Sheet Music Database - Collection contains about 100,000 titles of popular music (as well as some classical) from the early 19th century through the 1980s.
- University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections: Music
- University of North Texas - "includes almost 30 rare 17th- and 18th-century scores of operas and ballets by the 17th-century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and his sons". Provides access to titles in the collection.
- Virtual Music Rare Book Room
- Willis Conover Collection
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Song Index - "Publicly available database providing access to citations for about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville."
- Variations - With Online Musical Scores for Opera Literature, Song Literature and Symphonic Literature.) Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program.
- Victorian Popular Music - British Library collection consists of illustrated sheet music for 188 songs and piano pieces.
- Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - 78-rpm discs by the Berliner company of Montréal, with podcasts. You can listen and browse by title and performer and Search the collection. Search for Moines Bénédictins de St. BenoÎt-du-Lac or Chant grégorien, plain chant, Antiennes. Search specifically for Alleluia V emitte, IV mode; Alleluia V veni, II mode (Amicus No.: 31421741). This Gregorian Chant, sung by the Choir of the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, is particularly fine.
The Music on the Home Front: Canadian Sheet Music of the First World War is a searchable database that offers covers and bibliographical information for nearly 400 pieces of sheet music published in Canada between 1914 and 1920. (Tip: To retrieve all sheet music with full scores available, choose the index "Any Keyword" and enter the letters pdf as your search term.) Additionally, Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada's collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site.
- Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Musikwissenschaft (ViFaMusik) - Virtual Library of Musicology "central portal for music and musicology, allows you to access an extensive digital library containing the latest scholarly research and online resources. Using a single search engine you can find bibliographical data, entries to experts and research projects as well as current events to your search topic...VifaMusik is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The project has been developed over the course of a two-year construction phase since July 2005 at the Bavarian State Library in partnership with the State Institute for Musicological Research in Berlin and the German Musicological Society." There is a Digitizations page:
- Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (Journal of Instrument Making) - 1890-1943
- Complete Works Georg Friedrich Händel, ed. by F. Chrysander. To access music click on [Startseite] at the base of the page.
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Werke - "This edition is divided into 19 series (work groups) and was compiled by the musician and friend of Mendelssohn Julius Rietz (1812-1877) during 1874-1877. It includes around 5900 pages and contains all known works of Mendelssohn at that time...including the symphonic work, the chamber music, oratories, operas, music for spectacles, sacred music, and Lieder."
- Robert Schumann: Werke
- Franz Liszt: Musikalische Werke
- WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive - Free sheet music for non-commercial usage.
- When U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain - Lolly Gassaway of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Only music copyrighted before 1923 can be guaranteed to be copyright free.
- Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930 - "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication, and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." Created by Christopher Reynolds, Department of Music, University of California, Davis. [Not found 27 November 2007]
- Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - Interactive database of Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish. Offers sound clips and lyrics.