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The British Library has a world-famous collection of printed and manuscript music, music recordings, concert programs and books, and periodicals on music.

How to Access

• Online databases and electronic books and journals are available.

• Order collection items to the Reading Room via the catalogues.

• If you need help, please ask the Reference Specialists at the enquiry desk, or contact the Rare Books Reference Team or Music Reference Team at the British Library.

• Free Reader sessions and 1-2-1 consultations to help you make the best use of the Library's collections

• If you need a Reader Pass visit Registering For A British Library Reader Pass - The British Library (bl.uk)

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https://www.bl.uk/subjects/music

Collection of newspapers, concertos, score manuscripts, program notes, audio recording, and other ephemera from notable composers like Ludwig Van Beethoven and Luigi Cherubini.

A collection of items from the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies can be accessed at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library through their digital portal or on site.

Special Collections | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (sjsu.edu)

SJSU Digital Collections | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

For any questions, contact SJSU Special Collections & Archives department

E-mail: special.collections@sjsu.edu

A digital collection representing an array of audio recordings, manuscripts, photographs, and notated music from all around the world and different historical periods. Collections include the early American to Omaha Indian Nation Music with Choral music, a collection of sheet music from the early 1800's, work from notable composers, American traditional music, and many more.

For any questions, email Ask a Librarian or rsrc@loc.gov

https://www.loc.gov/collections/?q=music

The CSUDH Donald and Beverly Gerth Archives houses the Sacred Music Collection consisting primarily of approximately 300 photographs of performances of sacred music by the African American Diaspora, students, and faculty from California State University Dominguez Hills and southern California. The collections also include academic and community papers, audio and visual recordings, periodicals, concert programs and other ephemera that span from 1924 to 2010.

For a brief description of all the digital collections and for additional information about the Gerth Archives Collections, navigate to the Gerth Archives and Special Collections homepage.

Sacred Music Collections - CSU Dominguez Hills Digital Collections (csudh.edu)

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The International Music Score Library, also known as the Petrucci Music Library, is a free resource that features thousands of musical scores for music libraries.

All the resources available on this site exist on a public domain and are accessible to all visitors. This collection can be used by music libraries, researchers, composers and musicians for recreational and research purposes regarding music theory and composition, the history of music, and orchestration.

Search features enable scores to be filtered by instrument difficulty, composer, nationality, time period, genre, and instrumentation.

Link to IMSLP Website

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) (2021). Petrucci Music Library. Retrieved from https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_PageC

This is a free sheet music resource featuring PDFs from the Golden Age of the American Town Band. All the PDFs are completely free to access. The site includes all links to organizations and resources that offer access to 1920s music and audio collections.

This resource can be used by school and community bands, directors, and music librarians seeking access to marches, waltzes, rags, theatre music, and much more.

Link to Resource

BandMusic PDF Library (2021). United States. Retrieved from https://bandmusicpdf.org/

As a part of The University of Washington Library’s rare book collection, The Music Library Digital Scores Collection contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas and excerpts, and other vocal music.

These resources are valuable to researchers, students, and university and library institutions.

https://content.lib.washington.edu/mmweb/

This special collection chronicles Beethoven's life through maps, lithographs, engravings, manuscripts, and other ephemera. The collection includes editions and thematic catalogs belonging to Beethoven as well as other works inspired by the composer.

Useful resources for music theorists, composers, biographical researchers, and other archives and institutions.

Beethoven Collections | SJSU Digital Collections

The Archive of Folk Culture mainly consists of the collections of the American Folklife Center which includes more than six million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. The collection also documents traditional recordings from all around the world including the earliest field recordings made in the 1890s on wax cylinder. It is one of the oldest and largest traditional recording repositories and is accessed by research institutions and folk lovers all around the world.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (si.edu)

Online Collections and Presentation (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) (loc.gov)

To contact, email Ask a Librarian: American Folklife Center - Ask a Librarian (loc.gov)

The Music Library Association is a professional organization resource for librarians and musicians. It requires an account to log in and access via a paid membership. Membership guarantees many resources, however, such as access to journals and resources.

Link to the MLA

Music Library Association (2021). Middleton, WI. REtrieved from https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/

The International Association of Music Libraries is a membership association with access to journals and community outreach. The IAML's goal is to provide a comprehensive resource for music libraries specifically so as to better promote their projects.

Link to the IAML

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (2020). Copenhagen, DM. Retrieved from https://www.iaml.info/

Free Magazine is an archive that includes a wide collection of PDF magazines, including renowned publications like Rolling Stone, Uncut, Guitar World, and many more. The digital archive allows users to explore and engage with news in the music culture such as record and concert reviews, artist interviews, as well as the history of genres. Categories on the digital platform allow searches to be filtered through genre, language, subject, and magazine name. The platform provides free access without the need for membership.

Music Magazines & Journals : Free Magazines

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Free Music Archive is powered by Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise (launched in 2008) is a music platform and licensing company with many common features, facilitating a community of more than 34,000 independent artists across 190+ countries. Both FMA and Tribe of Noise support free to access, Creative Commons licensed.

https://freemusicarchive.org/

The Live Music Archive is available through the webpage Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Live Music Archive offers a wide selection of music streaming that can be filtered by language, creator, genre, year, subject, and media format. This resource is on a public domain and has free access.

Free Music : Download & Streaming : Live Music Archive : Internet Archive

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