LibGuides: Music: Web Resources

Web Resources

The following free online resources are relevant to students studying Music.

Music Theory Resources

Good Ear (Opens in New Tab) A straightforward, ear-training tool.
Musicards (Opens in New Tab) Contains music theory flashcards.
Music Theory and History Online (Opens in New Tab) Repository from Dolmetsch Foundation for the basics of notation, meter, rhythm, chord structures, etc.
MusicTheory.net (Opens in New Tab) Free tools for learning basic music theory. From Ricci Adams.
Teoria - Music Theory Web (Opens in New Tab) Dedicated to the study and practice of music theory. Several free tutorials on reading music, intervals, scales, chords, harmonic functions, and other interactive exercises.

Professional Organizations

American Federation of Musicians (AFM) (Opens in New Tab) Largest organization in the world that represents the interests of professional musicians.
American Musicological Society (AMS) (Opens in New Tab) Nonprofit that seeks to advance research in music scholarship.
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) (Opens in New Tab) Nonprofit organization dedicated to preservation and study of sound recordings across all genres and time periods.

Sound/Musical Recordings

Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection (Opens in New Tab) The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection provides online access to digital audio files of cylinders in the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Belfer's cylinder collection includes over 22,000 cylinders, 12,000 of which are unique titles.
Free Music Archive (Opens in New Tab) Interactive library that provides high quality, legal audio downloads from various genres.
Library of Congress - Music Division (Opens in New Tab) Contains sound recordings from 25 collections at the Library of Congress; recordings consist of American music, oral histories, and speeches.
Library of Congress - National Jukebox (Opens in New Tab) Historical recordings are made available to the public free of charge from the Library of Congress.
Live Music Archive (Opens in New Tab) The Internet Archive's Live Music Library is an audio archive of live recordings that are available royalty free and at no cost.
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (Opens in New Tab) UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.

Sheet Music Resources

Choral Public Domain Library (Opens in New Tab) Largest site devoted to providing free choral sheet music.
Digital Mozart Edition (Opens in New Tab) Makes Mozart's compositions available to the public for educational and personal use.
e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (Opens in New Tab) The goal of e-codices is to provide access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts of Switzerland via a virtual library.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (Opens in New Tab) Provides access to more than 200,000 music scores free of charge. IMSLP is committed to providing free access to music for everyone and encourages the exchange of musical ideas through online forums.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music (Opens in New Tab) Contains more than 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright. From the Library of Congress.
Musopen (Opens in New Tab) Nonprofit charity that focuses on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources.
Mutopia Project (Opens in New Tab) Offers scores of classical music.
ScorSer (Opens in New Tab) Search engine created for musicians enabling them to search through websites for scores, sheet music, tabs, backing tracks, audio files, lyrics, MP3s, and other information.
Sheet Music Consortium (Opens in New Tab) Libraries whose goal is to create an open collection of digitized sheet music. Libraries include: Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, Duke University, Indiana University, John Hopkins University, UCLA, and the University of Maine.