Music

4291 song sheets, from turn of 19th century to 1880s and primarily from the 1850s to the 1870s. American songs, plus 97 British song sheets from Dublin and London. Produced by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

Highlights choral music from Library of Congress collections. Besides biographies of selected composers there are links to digitized musical scores.

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

A multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

Approximately 100 sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College. Sponsored by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

A multiformat ethnographic field collection from the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 southern state recording trip.

Harvard University's Loeb Music Library's resource of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores.

Wiki of public domain music scores

9,000+ pieces of music, with focus on popular American music from 1780-1960. From the collection of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University.

This digital collection includes late 19th and early 20th century sheet music and recordings that are in the public domain and a subset of UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular Music.

An interactive introduction to classical music from Western Kentucky University.

A Project of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and The Packard Humanities Institute offers Mozart's works in digitized format. The site, a follow-up to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, also provides different variants and versions of compositions and critical commentary.

Comprehensive web resource devoted entirely to the music, life and works of Berlioz. Updated twice a week.

This Bach site offers English translations to the vocal works of J. S. Bach along with introductory information on the sources and on performance history of each work. Commentary on the text is found in footnotes which are quickly opened by clicking on the footnote number.

The ACE database lists 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.

BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939, collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose BMI for representation in the United States.

A collaboration between Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out! magazine, this site is an index to traditional folk songs of the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Each entry includes the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and full bibliographic information on the source.

Search this database to find the author or composer of a song.