Music: General

This collection from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives contains image, sound, and video files of over 400 musical instruments from around the world.

Links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. Includes scores, audio, maps, music theory, and more.

From the site: New Muses Project is a DEI-centered classical music organization, promoting justice and curiosity through performance, education, and scholarship.

An open-source bibliography of specialized digital resources and born-digital scholarship in music. compiled from 2018-2021

From the site: Offers searchable access to recorded track information for concert Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo Classical vocalists. The resource contains a selection from a century of historic and contemporary concert spiritual recordings produced on compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs, audio cassettes and streamed audio files, as well as demonstration recordings from musical score collections.

Library of Congress collections range from the late 1800s to present and include sheet music collections, manuscripts, interviews, photos, books, and audio.

Digital collection within the Morgan Library features over 500 high-quality scans of musical manuscripts of compositions from the Baroque to more recent periods.

The Digitised Manuscripts site contains many different kinds of manuscripts, archives, and documents. Much of the content available here has been digitised as part of the British Library’s digitisation projects.

Over 57,603,456 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives

A Guide to Digital Scores, Libretti, and Documents at BYU