Music History (MUS-2313 | MUS-2315 | MUS-2317 | MUS-3223)
This is a guide to library resources for Music History courses (MUS-2313 | MUS-2315 | MUS-2317 | MUS-3223). Here you will find databases, electronic journals, tutorials, and other information.
An online collection of Bach for researchers and musicians. Comprises a "detailed and global database with digital reproductions of works/sources by J. S. Bach and the whole Bach family"
Chopin Early Editions consist of digitized images of all scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection. Users can search or browse Chopin Early Editions via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers.
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. 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.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 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.
A collaborative virtual library of public domain music scores. It currently includes more than twenty thousand works from three thousand composers, with new works added every month.
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.
A selected subset of Brown University's John Hay Library collection of American sheet music, this collection contains approximately 1,400 items. "The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical compositions found in sheet music publications."
Score Follower's YouTube strives to provide access to contemporary music for all. Through our activities, we also aim to strengthen, diversify, and connect our musical community. Our dedication to others in the field motivates our commitment to procuring legally obtained scores and recordings.
