Shaw University Library Guides: Music : Online Resources

Videos

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Allows you to view over 5,000 streaming videos in subject areas including Humanities & Social Science, Science, Business, Economics and Health.

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Films for Action
According to their website, "Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society."
Frontline
PBS
TED Talks

ScienceDaily: Music Headlines

Websites & More!

CVNC: An Online Arts Journal for North Carolina - Events
See local performing arts events and details on performances.

Organizations and Centers

Professional associations advance the discipline and profession they represent, advocate for issues, hold conferences, offer networking and leadership opportunities, post jobs, and publish journals and newsletters. They provide resources on their websites, and more benefits and involvement if you become a member.

International Association of Music Information Centers
Promotion of and information about contemporary music, globally
Music Library Association
American Musicological Society
Society for Music Theory
The Society for Ethnomusicology

Musical Scores

American Memory
List of scores available online.
Sheet Music Consortium
The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.
Mutopia
The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic Leon Levy digital Archives was launched in February 2011, and currently comprises more than 1.3 million pages. It contains teaching resources for music instruction as well as live young peoples concerts and more.
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It includes14,000 printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs. When completed, the online collection will contain every document in the New York Philharmonic Archives from 1842 through 1970, more than 3 million pages — including correspondence, marked scores and parts, contracts, and minutes from meetings of the Board of Directors — as well as all public documents from 1970 through today, including marketing materials, press releases, and annual reports.
African American Sheet Music from the Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship
The sheet music in this digital collection has been selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. The full collection consists of approximately 500,000 items, of which perhaps 250,000 are currently available for use.
Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Digital Archives
Available through the Library of Congress' American Experience.
Musical Scores from the University of Illinois Music Library
This collection contains 97 scores to musicals and operettas found in the collections of the University of Illinois Music Library.
The 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.