Music Guide: Online Resources

Publishing house Ricordi's digital archive. Includes score manuscripts, letters, images/photographs, and magazines/publications
(In Italian)

Over 1,000 items from the Bodleian’s Chinese maps, manuscripts and printed books collections, acquired since the 17th century.

This project includes several digitized music manuscripts

This sheet music collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920 [view finding aid for the collection]. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the items bear European imprints. Most of the music is written for voice and piano; a significant minority is instrumental.

"The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era and is the richest composite gift of musical documents ever received by the Library"

The Newberry collects manuscript and printed source materials for western European music from the late Middle Ages into the early twentieth century and for American music from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. There are also strong holdings for musical life in Chicago, from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century.

A comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. The database contains more than 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers and is linked to 3 other databases (Comppser, Library Sigla, and Bibliographic Citations) providing additional information

Scores and Arrangements digital collection offers unique insight into the development of music and scores in film. The collection includes over 3,000 items published or created for use in silent film accompaniment between 1904 - 1927. These items include scores written for specific films, cue sheets that compile melodies for use at certain moments in specific films.