Click on the links below to see a listing of Web sites related to that
topic:
Sheet Music Collections (including digitized
versions)
Sheet Music Consortium on the Web
"The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the
goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music."
Consortium members include: Library of Congress, Duke University,
Indiana University, Maine Music Box, Johns Hopkins University, National
Library of Australia, and UCLA.
Archive of Popular American Music
(UCLA Music Library)
"A research collection covering the history of popular music in the
United States from 1790 to the present. [I]nitiative designed to
provide access to digital versions of the sheet music, and performances
of the songs now in the public domain."
Historic American Sheet Music
(Duke University)
"The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides
access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published
in the United States between 1850 and 1920."
Indiana
University Sheet Music
"The web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the
Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music,
including those for which there are digitized images [of the sheet
music] available."
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
The Indianan "search and discovery system for accessing sheet music
from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State
Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical
Society."
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
(Johns Hopkins University)
"The collection consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular
music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength
is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century America through
popular music. The collection is especially strong in music spawned
by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I, and
minstrel music is also well-represented."
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
(Library of Congress)
Contains more than 62,500 pieces of
historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000
registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered
during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic
arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental
music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band
and orchestra.
Other Music Resources
ARChive of Contemporary Music
From the site: "The ARChive collects, preserves and provides information
on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from
1950 to the present. Since the ARChive's founding in 1986 our holdings
have grown to over 1.5 million sound recordings, making the ARChive the
largest popular music collection in the United States."
The ArtsEdge
The National Arts and Education Network. From the site: "ARTSEDGE
offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of
the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student
materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment."
DW3 Classical Music Resources
(Duke University Music Library)
Metasite for classical music resources. Sections include Composer
Homepages, Chronologies and Necrologies, National and Regionally
Oriented Pages, Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research,
Electronic Journals and Newsletters, Genre-Specific Pages, and
Databases.
Internet Archive - Audio
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an
Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, etc. in the digital format. Audio is one
aspect of the site. Also, check out the sub-collections in
the middle of the Audio homepage.
Jazz Roots
Site focusing primarily on the first thirty years of jazz. Provides an
introduction to the development of jazz, along with information about
various musicians and composers.
Music Theory Online: A Journal of Criticism,
Commentary, Research, and Scholarship
From the site: "Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic
journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc.. Published several times
each year, each issue includes features such as articles, book
reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International
Correspondents."
Worldwide Internet Music Sources
(Indiana University School of Music)
Metasite with links to the following topics in music: Individual
Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups, Composers and Composition,
Groups and Ensembles (Except Popular), Other Sites Related to
Performance, Genres and Types of Music, Research and Study, Journals
and Magazines, and The Commercial World of Music.
