Library guides: Music: Web resources

Australian web resources

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Registered users of the National Library of Australia can access a range of databases and electronic resources listed under Arts & Humanities - Music.

State Library of NSW databases (inc Oxford Music Online)
Browse by subject Art and Performing Art > Music. NSW residents are eligible to register for membership of the State Library of NSW, and access several useful databases including Oxford Music Online.
Trove - Music, Sound & Video
National Library of Australia - Search for printed music, sheet music, musical sound recordings, interviews with significant people, audio books, movies and other videos.
The Australian Jazz RealBook
A collection of Australian jazz tunes from Australian composers. Most can be listened to online and sheet music downloaded if you have an annual subscription.
National Film & Sound Archive - Sound collections
The audio recordings in the NFSA collection include music in just about every possible style, from popular Music Hall singers of a century ago to the current chart hits. There are political speeches, poetry readings, nature recordings of lyrebirds, frogs and crickets, historical events and experimental recordings as well as steam trains from every corner of the country. There is an ongoing program of digitising fragile and ‘at-risk’ physical formats and almost 20,000 recordings on disc and tape have been preserved in this manner. Several hundred are available for listening through our online Search the Collection.
National Library Music Collections
The music collection contains over 300,000 musical scores and the largest collection of music research resources in Australia.
Australia Council
The Australia Council is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body. It directly supports young, emerging and established organisations.
Australian Music Centre
The leading provider of information, publications and scores relating to Australian music.
Australian Association of Teachers of Singing (anats)
anats membership encompasses classical and contemporary teachers, classical and contemporary singers, voice practitioners (such as Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists and Speech Pathologists) and interested members of the community.

CHARM (AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music)
Access online discography and library of ex-copyright recordings, see details about publications, or find information about early recording history and methods for analysing recordings.
National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
MusOpen
Free account (with restricted downloads) required to download from Musopen, a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by making recordings, sheet music, and textbooks available to the public for free.
Public Domain project
The Public Domain Music Library has thousands of 1922 or earlier books, hymnals, periodicals, and sheet music.
The Aria Database
The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. The Aria Database also contains information on available scores and sound files that can be purchased to aid in study and enjoyment. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.

Notated Music Collecations, Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has one of the largest collections of notated music in the world with over 22 million items.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. For this purpose they have created a music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access, with several other projects in planning. IMSLP is also entirely collaborative, and all contributions are greatly welcomed.
ChoralWiki
The Choral Public Domain Library contains free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
Early Music Online - Royal Holloway Repository
This collection holds digitised images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music.
Early Music Online is the result of a pilot project in which more than 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library were digitised from microfilm.
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library Digital Scores & Libretti
The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. Many, such as variant editions of nineteenth century operas and related libretti, fall into intellectually related sets that are meant to be seen and used together. As a group, they give scholars a window into the study of historical performance practice that cannot be duplicated using the holdings of any one other library.
The Sheet Music Project: Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance. For the most part, the musical pieces created have been chamber music, with composers such as Brahms and Beethoven.
KernScores
A library of virtual musical scores in the Humdrum **kern data format.
MuseData
An electronic library of classical music scores.
MusOpen
Free account (with restricted downloads) required to download from Musopen, a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by making recordings, sheet music, and textbooks available to the public for free.
Mutopia
Sheet music editions of classical music for free download.
Public Domain project
The Public Domain Music Library has thousands of 1922 or earlier books, hymnals, periodicals, and sheet music.
Sheet Music Consortium
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Eastman School of Music - Sibley Music Library Musical Scores (University of Rochester)
Scores and books in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Juilliard Manuscript Collection
The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is an extraordinary collection of 140 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions, which were donated to the school in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner.
All of the manuscript scores and sketches have been digitized. Also available on this website are selected manuscripts from the Juilliard Library’s Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, including scores in the Artur Rubinstein Music Collection.
The Aria Database
The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. The Aria Database also contains information on available scores and sound files that can be purchased to aid in study and enjoyment. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.