Primary Music Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

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RLIN (RLG Union Catalog)
Union catalog of the Research Libraries Group Members....   [more]
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Important Music Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

African Music Archive (Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat)
Repository of mainly sub-Saharan African popular and modern music. Includes recordings, video and print sources. (In German)...   [more]
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American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
Offers access to a large array of digitized materials, many of which are related to music (African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920; Aaron Copland Collection 1900-1990; etc.)...   [more]
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Archive of Maori and Pacific Music (University of Auckland, NZ)
Home of the world's largest collection of field recordings of music of the Pacific....   [more]
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Archive of World Music (Harvard University)
A collection of archival field recordings, chiefly of Asian and Middle Eastern musics....   [more]
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Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)
The largest university-based collection of ethnological sound recordings. Includes commercial and field recordings, oral histories, videos, and print materials....   [more]
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BBC Radio 3
Listen live or search the audio archives of BBC Radio 3. ...   [more]
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British Library music manuscript collection (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Center for Popular Music
Maintains an archive of sheet music, periodicals, playbills and programs, recordings, and photographs....   [more]
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Charles Ives Society
An organization devoted to scholarly work on the music of Ives....   [more]
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Chopin early editions (University of Chicago)
View digital images of the University's rare Chopin holdings....   [more]
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Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum
A digital edition and linguistic analysis of "songs from non-liturgical sources" coordinated by Francesco Stella...   [more]
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Court odes of William Boyce (microfilm collection finding aid)
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EMAP
World-wide ethno radio (requires RealPlayer)...   [more]
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Experience Music Project
Homepage of the interactive music museum in Seattle, WA....   [more]
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Filodiffusione (audio; Italy)
Access to the audio archives of the RAI....   [more]
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Finding Aid. Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music. Library of Congress
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Gerald Coke Handel collection (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University)
The nation's premier archive of jazz materials, including recordings, books, periodicals, and photographs....   [more]
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Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (San Jose State University)
Search the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe....   [more]
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Italian music manuscripts in the British Library, London (finding aid)
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Jazz-institut Darmstadt
Contains general jazz information as well as information on jazz in Germany. (In German)...   [more]
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Jazz, blues, soul, and rock, pt. 1 (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Jazz, blues, soul, and rock, pt. 2 (microfilm collection finding aid)
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KEXP (Seattle)
Maintains a two-week archive of a wide variety of programming....   [more]
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Kurt Weill Foundation
An organization devoted to the study and performance of Kurt Weill's music....   [more]
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Latin American Music Center (Indiana University)
A society dedicated to the promotion of art music by Latin American composers....   [more]
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Leonard Bernstein Collection - Library of Congress
The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and ...   [more]
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Morgan Library (NYC)
Home to one of the largest collections of music manuscripts in the U.S....   [more]
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Music collection of Christ Church, Oxford (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music collection of St. Michael's College, Tenbury (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music collection of the Royal Academy of Music, London (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music collection of the Royal College of Music, London (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music collections of the Cambridge libraries (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music manuscripts of St. George's Chapel, Windsor (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Music manuscripts of William Boyce and Maurice Greene (microfilm collection finding aid)
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NPR: National Public Radio
Search the audio archives of NPR....   [more]
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Oxford Music School collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Part One (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Recorded Sound Reference Center (Library of Congress)
One of the largest collections of recorded sound in all media in the world....   [more]
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The home page of the museum....   [more]
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Thomas A. Edison Collection of American Sheet Music (microfilm collection finding aid)
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UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
One of the largest collections of ethnological recordings in the country....   [more]
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Unpublished continental music manuscripts of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Unpublished English music manuscripts before 1850. Section A (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Unpublished English music manuscripts before 1850. Section B (microfilm collection finding aid)
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Venetian opera libretti (microfilm collection finding aid)
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William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz (Tulane University)
An extensive collection of oral histories, photographs, press clippings, and general jazz reference material....   [more]
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WNYC: New York Public Radio
Listen live or search the audio archives of one of New York City's public radio station....   [more]
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World Music Archive (Wesleyan University)
Contains, among other things, the largest collection of Navajo recordings in the world....   [more]
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Related Music Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

LibDex The Library Index
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LIBWEB Library Servers via WWW
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