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Music Librarian: Michael Duffy
Music Building 175A
815-753-9839
mduffyiv@niu.edu
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| Organizations | Journals | Primary Sources |
| Individual Composers | Specialized Resources | Graduate Training |
Web Resources
Copyright Issues
Web Resources
- Eubie Blake Collection, The - European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - The Levy Collection of Sheet Music is housed at Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music created between 1780 to 1960.
- Music and Dance Reference (Brigham Young University)
Research and Writing
Web Resources
- Music Education Cooperative Collection Project (MECCP)
- Music Resources (Sibelius Academy)
- Musicpedia
- Online Conservatory
- Online Resources for Music Scholars
- Online Resources in Music (Rice University)
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
- WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
- Yahoo! -- Entertainment:Music
Organizations
- American Choral Directors Association
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Guild of Organists
- American Harp Society
- American Music Network (Sonneck Society)
- American Musicological Society
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- American String Teachers Association
- American Theatre Organ Society
- American Viola Society
- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
- BMI
- Centre for Performance Science: Music and Science Online
- Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, The
- Charles Ives Society, Inc.
- Chopin Foundation of the United States
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Database of International Music Organizations
- Herbert von Karajan Centrum
- International Double Reed Society
- International Trumpet Guild
- Julliard School
- Mountain Stage
- Music Educators National Conference
- Music Library Association
- Music Publishers' Association
- National Flute Association
- National Music Council of the United States
- National Piano Foundation
- Organ Historical Society
- Percussive Arts Society
- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS)
- Society for Ethnomusicology
- Society for Music Theory
- The College Music Society
- World Harp Congress
Journals
- CAML Review/Revue de l'ACBM (Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres)
- Chapter & Verse: A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies
- Colloquium Journal of the Institute of Sacred Music
- Critical Musicology
- Critical Studies in Improvisation/ Études Critiques en Improvisation
- Ethnomusicology Online
- Institute for Canadian Music Newsletter
- Journal of Music History Pedagogy
- Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
- Music & Arts in Action
- Music and Anthropology
- Music theory Online
- Ntama Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
- Online Journal of Bass Research
- Performance Practice Review
- RIME: Research and Issues in Music Education
- Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletters
Primary Sources
- 19th Century California Sheet Music
- African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883- 1923
- American Choral Music, 1870- 1923
- Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
- British Library: Archival Sound Recordings: Music from India
- Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
- Center for the History of Music and Literature
- Chicago Jazz Archive
- Coptic Chant at the Library of Congress
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Digital Scores: Loeb Music Library
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - This website presents the content from the Duke University Rare Book and Special Collections Library (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/). The Duke University website was a 1996 - 1997 award recipient of the Library of Congress/ Ameritech Digitial Library Competition.
- Historic Sheet Music (University of Oregon)
- IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
- International Music Score Library Project - "Aims to provide free access to public domain scores. Please note that the site is hosted in Canada, and it claims that the works presented are in the public domain in Canada or are licensed for distribution by the site. A work that is in the public domain in Canada may or may not be in the public domain in the United States."
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - The Levy Collection of Sheet Music is housed at Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music created between 1780 to 1960.
- Lied and Art Song Texts Page - This website provides the text plus the translations of Lieder and Art songs.
- Mississippi State University Libraries: The Sheet Music Collection
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
- Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past
- Songwriters Hall of Fame Virtual Museum
- Southern Folklife Collection, including Fieldnotes: The Souther Folklife Collection Newsletter
- The Classical String Quartet, 1770- 1840
- The James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection
- The Maine Music Box
- The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
- The Sousa Archives and Center For American Music
- The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
- University of South Carolina School of Music: Sheet Music Collection
- UNT Music Library: Virtual Rare Book Room
- Volcano of Delight: Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Individual Composers
- Aaron Copland Collection
- American Experience: The Carter Family: Will the Circle be Unbroken
- Arnold Schoenberg Center
- Bach Bibliography
- Bach Cantatas
- Beethoven Bibliography Database
- Center for Beethoven Studies
- Chopin Early Editions
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Edvard Grieg 1843-1907: Norway's Greatest Composer
- Ernest Bloch Legacy
- George and Ira Gershwin
- Handel
- Ignaz Pleyel Early Editions Digital Collection
- Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum
- J.S. Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary
- John Coltrane
- One More Once: A Centennial Celebration of the Life and Music of Count Basie
- Samuel Barber at the Library of Congress
- Shostakovichiana
- Stephen Foster's Sketchbook
- The Art of David Tudor
- The Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archive
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection
- The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
- The March King: John Philip Sousa
- The Mendelssohn Project
- The Prokofiev Page
- The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
- The Roger Reynolds Collection
- Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song
Specialized Resources
- 50 Albums that Changed Music
- A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony Exhibition
- A Guide to Copyright (Music Library Association)
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883- 1923
- All About Jazz
- All-Music Guide
- American Experience: The Carter Family: Will the Circle be Unbroken
- American Roots Music
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Art of the States
- Atomic Platters: Cold War Music
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
- Broadway: The American Musical
- Canadian Music Centre
- Cecilia: Find Music Collections in UK and Ireland
- Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Classical Music Archives
- Classical Music in Russia
- College Music School Address Book
- Country Music Hall of Fame
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
- Drummerworld
- Echoes of Africa
- FestivalFinder: Music Festivals of North America
- Fiddler's Grove
- Free Online Guitar Chord Dictionaries
- FreeHandMusic (downloadable music scores)
- Gaylord Music Library Necrology (Death Dates for Musicians)
- Global Music Archive
- Hear HERE!: The Royal Philharmonic Society
- Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio
- Home Sweet Home: Life in 19th Century Ohio
- International Clarinet Association
- International Guitar Research Archives
- Jazz Institute of Chicago
- John Coltrane
- Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
- Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life
- Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Lyrics World
- M.I.N.D. Institute (information on the "Mozart Effect")
- Metropolitan Opera
- Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line
- Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line
- Music Acoustics UNSW
- Musicpedia
- Mutopia (downloadable music scores)
- National Geographic World Music
- National Public Radio: Live Concert Series
- NIU Computer Music Studios
- NIU School of Music
- Norwegian Jazz Archive
- NPR Music
- Omaha Indian Music
- OperaGlass
- Patriotic Melodies
- Pepper Music Network (online music store)
- Pianopedia
- Public Domain Music
- Ragtime
- Sheet Music Consortium
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Smithsonian Folkways - "Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution . . . dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. We believe that musical and cultural diversity contributes to the vitality and quality of life throughout the world."
- Song of America
- Stage Agent
- Stan Kenton Orchestra
- The Aria Database (includes translations)
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s
- The Community-Music e-mail list
- The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection (Library of Congress)
- The Electronic Hymnal
- The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
- The Folk Song Index
- The Metropolitan Opera History
- The Museum of Musical Instruments
- The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project
- The Orchestra: A User's Manual
- The World of Opera
- University of North Texas Music Libraries' Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
- UT Song Index - "This database provides access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee".
- Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
- Woodstock Mozart Festival
