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Scores
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 19th-Century California Sheet Music 
 "A virtual library of some 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs." Includes information on African Americans, Californios, Chinese, and other cultures, as related to California sheet music. Includes some audio and video. Music topics include gender, mining, politics, and sports. From Mary Kay Duggan, professor, University of California, Berkeley. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html Topics: Music Last updated Oct 26, 2007 Chopin Early Editions
This collection consists of digitized images of "over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions" in the University of Chicago Library's Frédéric Chopin collection. "Users can search or browse ... via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers." http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Music Last updated Sep 7, 2004 Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
A digitally scanned collection of "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. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." Searchable or browsable by author, title, or subject. An American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ Topics: Music Last updated Feb 28, 2005 Mutopia
Collection of several hundred classical music scores available in various text formats, some with MIDI audio files. Browse by composer, instrument, or musical style, or search by keywords. http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Topics: Music, Musical Genres Last updated Mar 10, 2003 Sheet Music Collections
This site provides access to several sheet music databases and collections available through libraries and archives. All links are to pages that are accessible to and searchable by the public, and helpful annotations to the collections are provided. From the Music Library and Media Center at Duke University. http://library.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Music Last updated Feb 17, 2007 Sheet Music Consortium
Contains tens of thousands of images of sheet music from collections throughout the United States. Browsable by title, and searchable by composer, subject, publisher, and date. A project of "a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music." Hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles. http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ Topics: Music Last updated Nov 28, 2005 |
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