Music Research Guide: Sounds/Images/Sheet Music

Over 12,000 MIDI and MP3 files for over 1000 composers.

Free sheet music page has links to a lot of sheet music sites.

Search over 50,000 uncensored lyrics by song, artist, band, album. Keyword searching. Commercial site with lots of ads. Anyone can submit lyrics but they are apparently checked for accuracy.

Compiled by a music professor, these links are available to download. Some require a particular format to print.

Well organized large directory of links to sheet music by instrument. Not all sites are completely free. Includes many sound files and good directions on downloading.

Site with links maintained by a professional musician and SKDesigns. Includes comprehensive pages of links to lyrics, some scores, and MIDI files.

From a Duke University collection. Over 3000 printable, digitized images including cover illustrations. Some emphasis on Southern music. Search by keyword, name, and subject. Information included on copyright.

Over 29,000 pieces of sheet music in the Johns Hopkins University collection. American popular music covering 1780-1980 with some focus on 19th century and war time music. Extremely well-indexed. Browse by over 100 categories or search by numerous fields like location of publisher, illustrator, dedicatee. Covers and music downloadable and printable.

Archive of over 2500 scores and MIDI files. Searchable by composer, title, type of piece, voice, and more. Indexed. Viewing requires plug-ins. See "system requirements" for information.

Commercial site which gives good explanation of public domain and copyright. Sheet music, downloads, CDs, and books are for sale.

Scroll down to see a large collection of sheet music and mutli-media links.

Approximately 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra are included. Includes music for theater, film, radio, and television as well as the usual popular music genres. Links to more sheet music sites.

Commercial site which also contains downloadable images for backgrounds, music notation, and instruments. Provides copyright information.

"High-quality images and descriptions of music manuscripts owned by The Morgan Library & Museum...including works by Bach, Mozart, Puccini, etc."

"more than 80,000 online items...digitized recordings, watch performances...sheet music, manuscripts, and historic copyright submissions...biographies, essays and curated content, interactive maps, a timeline"

Nearly 50,000 digitized 78rpm records; variety of genres represented - jazz, pop, blues, opera; early 1900s to 1980s

from the 175,000+ digital file collection of Alan Lomax; from 1946 to 1990s.

Expanded access to the Alan Lomax recordings (Assoc. for Cultural Equity Research Center); search by map, culture, genre, etc.

Archive of over 2500 scores and MIDI files. Searchable by composer, title, type of piece, voice, and more. Indexed. Viewing requires plug-ins. See "system requirements" for information.

Over 12,000 MIDI and MP3 files for over 1000 composers.

from WFMU - MP3 format - provides legal audio downloads for free; read the FAQ info under the ABOUT tab if you want to use files for anything other than personal listening

More than 100,000 live performances by trade-friendly artists. Includes Smashing Pumpkins, Matisyahu, The Naked Funk, Grateful Dead, etc.

Site with links maintained by a professional musician and SKDesigns. Includes comprehensive pages of links to lyrics, some scores, and MIDI files.