MUSIC LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MORE...
Notes: This list was developed from a list originating at the Sibelius Academy and shared with me by a colleague. Links were updated, enhanced, and added to create this resource for my students in the graduate music research course (Music 457) at Illinois State University. Users of the list should consider that some databases, especially from libraries, are commercial, require a subscription service, and may not be accessible to the browsing public. Typically one gets access to these resources through campus library web sites where there is an affiliation as a student, faculty, or staff. Please send updates and additions to help keep this list as current possible. Last updated 8/15/2005
David B. Williams
Professor of Music and Arts Technology
Illinois State University
- American Music Center
- Bach-Archiv Leipzig
- Beethoven Bibliography Database
- La Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo del Universitá degli Studi di Bologna
- BMI Hyper Repertoire (Internet song title database, over 3 million works)
- BUBL Classical Music Links
- CAIRSS for Music database of music research literature
- Classical MIDI Archives
- Cleveland Institute of Music Library
- College Music Society
- Fenway Libaries Online (New England Conservatory)
- Directory of Music Libraries in Finland
- Directory of Musical E-Mail Lists
- Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
- Finnish Records 1901 - 1945 (catalogue)
- Fourteenth Century Music Databases
- Free Sheet Music Guide
- Harvard University, Loeb Music Library
- Historic American Sheet Music
- Indiana University Library
- The International Association of Music Information Centres IAMIC
- IAML - International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
- IRCAM Library
- Italian Music Libraries
- Julliard Music Library
- Lawrence University, Seeley G. Mudd Library (Music in the Mudd)
- Libraries and Databases from Iceland
- Library of Congress
- Louisiana State University Music Library
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Lewis Music Library)
- McGill University (Marvin Duchow Music Library)
- Middlebury College Music Library
- Music FAQs (links to online newsgroups on various music topics)
- Music Library of Greece (with a mirror to SIBA music resources)
- The Music Library of Sweden
- Music Information Centres on the Web
- Music Library Association (MLA)
- www.music-scores.com
- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Ohio State University Music & Dance Library
- Oxford University Bodleian Library
- Princeton Mendel Music Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Rice University (Brown Fine Arts Library)
- RILM International Repertory of Music Literature
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
- Scandinavian music databases
- Scottish Music Centre
- Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music)
- Smithsonian
- Special Music Libraries (Finland)
- Stanford University Music Library
- SynthMuseum.com (large collection of historic electronic music instruments)
- Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Database for Latin Music Theory)
- UC San Diego Music Library
- University of California - Berkeley
- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of Cambridge, Pendlebury Library of Music
- University of Louisville, Dwight Anderson Music Library
- University of Michigan
- University of Virginia
- Variations Project (Indiana University)
- Washington University in St. Louis (Gaylord Music Library)
- Wellesley College
- Wesleyan University
- YAHOO: Music Libraries
- Yale University (Irving S. Gilmore Library)
