Music Libraries
Music libraries may have music dictionaries and encyclopedias, music indexes and directories, printed music, and more. These music libraries may support university or college music departments, music organizations, conservatories and schools of music, public libraries, or other organizations.
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many Songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes Songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of Black and African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. Particularly significant in this collection are the visual depictions of Black and African Americans which provide information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Material selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library, Brown University. - Appalachian State University Music Library - Nicholas Erneston Music Library
The Appalachian State University Music Library, located on the second floor of the Broyhill Music Center, supports the curriculum of the Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music and the University, and contains books, scores, and recordings. - ARChive of Contemporary Music
The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City since 1985. ARC contains more than three million sound recordings. That’s 90 + million Songs. We preserve copies of each version of every recording, in all known formats, and have electronically catalogued more than 400,000 sound recordings and digitized 200,000 with out partners the Internet Arcive – more than any other public, university or private library in America. ARC also houses more than three million pieces of attendant support material including photographs, videos, DVDs, books, magazines, press kits, sheet music, ephemera and memorabilia. - Arizona State University Music Library
- Digital Respoitory
Home to scholarly, administrative and cultural heritage materials that support, engage and inspire the Arizona State University community. Scholarly papers, theses and audiovisual materials join university records, historical photographs and music performances in a broad and inclusive collection. - Searching Song Index
Contains popular, folk, and art Songs found in collections of Songs owned by the Music Library - Christina Carroll Collection
"A collection of piano vocal scores of 19th and 20th century operas. These are cataloged and available and information is available through the Library Online Catalog. They do not circulate, and must be requested at the circulation desk."
- Digital Respoitory
- Arizona State University School of Music Rafael Méndez Library
The Library was established for the purpose of providing precise and complete information about the life and music of this extraordinary performer, composer and teacher. The catalogs of photographs, concert programs, news clippings, correspondence, album covers and original manuscripts are now available online. - La Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo della Universita' di Bolognay
- Biblioteca Nacional Española
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Boston Area Music Libraries
- Boston Public Library's Music Department
- Boston University Mugar Memorial Library - Music Library
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Archive
- Bowling Green State University Music Library and Bill Schurk Music Archives
- Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library
- The British Library
- Brown University, Virginia Baldwin Orwig Music Library
- Butler University, Irwin Library
Indianapolis, IN - California Institute of the Arts Library
CalArts Valencia, CA - California State University, Fresno, Music & Media Library
- California State University, Hayward Library
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Music Resources - Public Library Pittsburgh, PA
- Carnegie Mellon, Hunt Library Audio Coillection
- Case Western Reserve University Kulas Music Library
- Catholic University of America Music Library
- Centenary College of Louisiana Hurley Music Library
- Centre de Documentation Musicale - Bibliothèque Gustav Mahler
- Chicago Public Library Online Search
- cité de la musique: the research and documentation center Paris, France
- Claremont Colleges Libraries
- Cleveland Institute of Music Library
- Cleveland State University Library - Michael Schwartz Library
- Colby College Bixler Art & Music Library
Waterville, Maine - College of the Holy Cross Fenwick Music Library
- Columbia College, Chicago, Center for Black Music Research
- Columbia University, Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library
- Connecticut College Greer Music Library
- Cornell University Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance
- Dalhousie University Libraries -- Music
- DePaul University Libraries, Music
- DePauw University Music Library
- Duke University Music Library and Music Media Center
- East Carolina University, Music Library
- Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library
- Fenway Libraries Online Catalog
FLO - a consortium of academic and special libraries in the Boston/Cambridge area - Florida State University, Warren D. Allen Music Library
- The Free Library of Philadelphia
- The Friends of Music Society. Music Library of Greece, Lilian Voudouri
- Online Catalog
- Special Collections
- List of Works - a database of works by selected composers
- Goldsmiths College University of London, Music Library
- Scherer Library of Musical Theatre at Goodspeed
- Haverford College Music Library
- Harvard College, Morse Music Library
- Harvard University, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
- HOLLIS - Online Catalog
- Collections
- Archive of World Music
- Mozart Resources
- The Isham Memorial Library
special collection devoted to musical source research and contains extensive holdings of microforms, facsimiles, rare books, and manuscripts - The Nadia Boulanger Collection
- Indiana State University Library
- CDs and DVDs Catalog
- The Country Music Index
The Country Music Song Index is based on a collection of 2,061 Songs published by the Acuff-Rose and Milene Music Publishing Companies from 1941 to 1972 - Kirk Collection: Dance Band Index
The Dance Band Index is a collection of 1,537 dance orchestra arrangements dating from 1900-1955. This number excludes additional arrangements which may have been issued with the primary set.
- Indiana University Archives of Black and African American Music and Culture
- Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music
- The Hoagy Carmichael Collection
Part of the Digital Library Program at Indiana University
- The Hoagy Carmichael Collection
- Indiana University Folklore Collection
Bloomington, IN - Indiana University Lilly Library - the Rare Books and Manuscript Library of Indiana University
- Indiana University, William and Gayle Cook Music Library
- IUCAT - Online Catalog
- Current Journals Subscription List
- Special Collections
- Latin American Music Center
- VARIATIONS Project: a digital library project
- Interlochen Arts Academy
- Iowa State University Rita Benton Music Library
- IRCAM Multimedia Library - Research Institute in Acoustics and Music Paris, France
- Irish Traditional Music Archive
- James Madison University Music Library
- John Hopkins University, Peabody Institute, Arthur Friedheim Library
- Online Catalog
- The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection -- Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960
- Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library
- Lawrence University, Seeley G. Mudd Library
- Libraries and Databases from Iceland
- Library of Congress Music Division
- Special Collections of the Music Division
- List of Selected Special Collections
- Special Collections of the Music Division
- Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
- American Folklife Center / Archive of Folk Culture
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection - an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration FSA migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941
- Vatican Exhibit - Music Hall : From Gregorian Chant to Opera's Origins
- Longy School of Music Bakalar Music Library
Cambridge, MA - Franz Liszt Collection
- Los Angeles Public Library, Art, Music, and Rare Books Department
- LAPL Online Catalog
- Behymer Collection Index
contains 181 images, mostly photographs, of opera singers and other artists brought to the Los Angeles musical stage at the turn of the twentieth century by impresario L. E. Behymer - Song Index
Songs appearing in music books located in the Art & Music Department
- Louisiana State University Libraries, Music Resources
- Luleå University of Technology Music Library
- Mannes College of Music Harry Scherman Library
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library
- McGill University Faculty of Music, Marvin Duchow Music Library
- McGill University Faculty of Music, Music Library of the Future Project
- Michigan State University Music Manuscript Collection
- Middle Tennessee State University Center for Popular Music
An archive and research center for the study of American popular music - Middlebury College Davis Family Library
- Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College - houses an archive of New England folk Song and folklife materials
- Special Collections - Music
- Mount Allison University Alfred Whitehead Memorial Music Library
- Museum of the City of New York George M. Cohan Collection
- The Music Library of Sweden
English version - Art & Music Library
- National Library of Canada Music Division
- National Library of Australia Music Collection
- National Library of New Zealand
- New England Conservatory Libraries
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- North Carolina School of the Arts Semans Library
- Northern Arizona University Cline Library
- Northern Illinois University Music Library
- Northwestern University Music Library
- Oberlin Conservatory Library
- Ohio State University Music/Dance Library
- Ohio University Music/Dance Library
- Old Dominion University Music, F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room
- Online Catalog
- Special Collections
contemporary music collection
- Oxford University Bodleian Library
- Penn State University Arts Library
- Princeton University Scheide Music Library and Mendel Music Library
- Queen's University Music Library
- Queens College Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Louis Armstrong House and Archives
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, International Library of African Music
- Rice University Brown Fine Arts Library
- Rider University Talbott Library
unique holdings of choral and sacred music Princeton NJ - Royal College of Music
- Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies
- Saint John's University Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- San Francisco Public Library Art and Music Center
- San Jose State University Library Information - Music
- Santa Clara University Music Library
- Sibelius Academy Music Library
- Smith College Werner Josten Library for the Performing Arts
- Smithsonian Institution The Center for Folklife Programs & Cultural Studies Archive
- Southern Methodist University Hamon Arts Library
- Schneider Music Library - Texas State University
- St. Olaf College Halvorson Music Library
- Stanford University Music Library
- State University of New York at Buffalo SUNY, Music Library
- State University of New York College at Fredonia SUNY Reed Library
- Tartu University Libary Recorded Sound Department
- Tufts University Tisch Music Library
- Tulane University Maxwell Music Library
- Universidad de Chile, Biblioteca de Música y Danza
- Universita' Degli Studi Di Bologna Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo: Biblioteca
- University of Alabama Music Library
- University of Arizona Music Collection
- University of Arkansas Mullins Library
- University of Auckland Music Library
- University of Birmingham Barber Music Library
- University of California Berkeley Music Library
- University of California, Davis, Music Library
- University of California, Irvine, Music Media Center
- University of California, Los Angeles, Music Library
- University of California, Riverside, Music Library Collections and Services
- University of California, San Diego Music Collection
- MELVYLweb, and ROGERweb - Online Catalogs
- San Diego New Music -- "Noise at the Library"
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Music Library
- University of Chicago Library Music Collection
- University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music - Gorno Memorial Music Library
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Music Library
- University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Resource Center Library
- University of Delaware Library Music Resource Center
- DELCAT - Online Catalog
- Naxos Music Library
- University of Hartford, Hartt School, Mildred P. Allen Library
- University of Houston Music Library
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Music Library
- University of Idaho Schuldt Music Listening and Resource Center
- University of Iowa Rita Benton Music Library
- University of Kansas Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Library
- University of Kentucky Adele G. Dailey Music Library
- University of Louisville Dwight Anderson Music Library
- University of Maine, Raymond H. Fogler Library
- University of Manitoba Eckhardt-Gramatte Music Library
- University of Maryland at College Park, Performing Arts Library
- VICTOR - Online Catalog
- Special Collections
- International Piano Archives at Maryland
A Renowned Archival Collection of Recorded Piano Performances - Jacob Coopersmith Collection of Handeliana
- Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature
- Special Collections in Performing Arts
- International Piano Archives at Maryland
- University of Michigan Music Library
- University of Minnesota Music Library
- University of Missouri Kansas City, Music/Media Library
- Collections: Music
A wide variety of music collections, including classical, jazz, Kansas City jazz, blues, popular, and regional.
- Collections: Music
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas Music Library
- University of New Hampshire Library
- University of North Alabama Music Library and Listening Center
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Music Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Music Library
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro Cello Music Collections
- University of North Texas Music Library
- University of Northern Colorado Skinner Music Library
- University of Notre Dame Music Library
- University of Nottingham Denis Arnold Music Library
- University of Oregon Knight Library, Music Services Department
- University of Pennsylvania Otto E. Albrecht Music Library
- University of Pittsburgh Theodore M. Finney Music Library
- University of Sheffield Music Library
- University of South Carolina Music Library
- University of South Florida, Florida Sheet Music Collection
- University of Southern California Music Library
- University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music Library
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville George F. DeVine Music Library
- UT Song Index
This database provides access to about 50,000 Songs in more than 1,500 published Song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, located in Knoxville. Use this citation index to determine which anthologies contain the Song(s) you need. You will not find the music or the words here, just the call number and book title. If you are not in Knoxville, ask your librarian about interlibrary loan options to obtain the Songs you need be.
- UT Song Index
- University of the Orange Free State Music Library
- University of Virginia Music Library
- University of Washington Music Library
- University of West Florida John C. Pace Music Library
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Mills Music Library
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir Music Library Special Holdings
Milwaukee, WI - Vanderbilt University, Anne Potter Wilson Music Library
- Vassar College, The George Sherman Dickinson Music Library
- Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is England’s national folk music and dance archive, a one stop shop for anybody interested in the folk arts. - Washington University in St. Louis, Gaylord Music Library
- Wellesley College Music Library
- Wesleyan University Olin Library : The Scores & Recordings Collection
- Western Michigan University, Harper C. Maybee Music and Dance Library
- Wichita State University Thurlow Lieurance Memorial Music Library
- Winthrop University College of Visual and Performing Arts Music Library
- Wright State University Naxos Music Library
- Yale University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
- York University Library - Music
- Last updated: 5/6/2023