ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library
CPDL was founded in December 1998, ported to ChoralWiki in August 2005,
and incorporated in May 2010 as a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization.
Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. The logo is a capital letter A, taken from the very first press-printed book of polyphonic music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, published in 1501. Its printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, is this library's namesake. Contains public domain music scores available for download.
Digital Sheet Music Consortium
Digitized sheet music in the public domain (prior to 1923). Consortium members include UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Library of Congress, among several others.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860
Includes scanned sheet music from the turn of the century, concert programs and ephemera.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 1885
Includes scanned sheet music from the turn of the century, concert programs and ephemera.
Bodleian Library of Broadsides
The Bodleian Library has holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitized copies available to the research community.
INDIGEFI: Modern Indigenous Music
Honoring the past and setting trends for the future…
INDIGEFI is a weekly one-hour show featuring an eclectic blend of modern Indigenous music, hosted by Alexis Sallee (Iñupiaq/ Mexican American). The show introduces you to the future of Native music with new and trending artists, while honoring the past by diving into the tracks that have shaped what we hear today. The highlight of each program is an artist interview with a featured musician. These interviews explore the unique Indigenous background and passions that inform the artist’s work.
INDIGEFI is distributed by Native Voice One and can be heard on radio stations across the country. The program is produced by Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC), a nonprofit, Alaska Native governed and operated media center located in Anchorage, Alaska.
Matanya Ophee Collection (classical guitar)
Highlights from the Ophee Collection include over five hundred first and early editions of major guitar composers including Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, and many others, as well as the only complete manuscript of the Dix Etudes by Giulio Regondi, discovered by Ophee in 1987. The collection also includes the personal scores and papers of Argentinian guitarist Domingo Prat (1886–1944), as well as a large amount of rare music for the Russian 7-string guitar from the 19th and 20th centuries. As founder of Editions Orphée, Ophee published some of the finest editions of classical guitar music--much of it from his own collection.
This website includes more information on the collection, as well as digitized files of public domain music. When downloading files, please credit the Ophee Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Appalachian State University. Check back often as we continue to add new resources.
OnMusic Dictionary
OnMusic Dictionary is the successor of former Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary.
American Musicological Society: WWW Sites for Musicologists
"The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. 3,600 individuals and 1,100 institutional subscribers from over forty nations participate in the Society."
Online Resources for Music Scholars: Harvard University
"This provides a basis for beginning electronic research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites."
ASCAP
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
African-American Music
Ball State's African-American Music Research Guide
("Music styles of African Americans from colonial times to the present"),
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Music
This Research Guide is from Belmont University's Lila D Bunch Library.
Music: Black Composers
This Research Guide is from Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.
Also check out other tabs: Asian-American, Indigenous, Latin-American, etc.
Music - Africana Music
This Research Guide is from Oberlin College and Conservatory Libraries
Music - Diversify Your Repertoire
This Research Guide is also from Oberlin College and Conservatory Libraries.
Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Resources at AFL
"A guide to help faculty de-colonize their syllabi, and to guide performers to diverse repertoire."
From the Arthur Friedheim Library of the Peabody Institute.
Music Sources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
From Rowan U's Campbell Library: "Rowan University Libraries have many resources that can assist you in incorporating aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion into your teaching practices and potential research. These issues have recently led to position statements from the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) on Inclusivity and Diversity (rev. 2017) and Equity and Access (2017) and the College Music Society set Fostering Equity and Opportunity in Music as their common topic for 2019-2020."
Institute of Jazz Studies
"This research guide is intended to introduce you to jazz resources at the Institute of Jazz
Studies (IJS) and to those at other libraries, archives, and museums, as well as on the web."
This Guide is from Rutgers University Libraries.
Music: Find Diverse Repertoire
"This page provides search strategies for locating music from creators who are part of one or more of the following groups: LGBT identities; women; people of color; musicians outside of the Western European musical tradition."
From Syracuse University Libraries.
Black Composers in Classical Music
Temple University Libraries' Research Guide: "A research guide for finding recordings, music, and information on classical music written by black composers."
African American Studies: Music History
This Research Guide is from the Tri-County Technical College (TCTC), SC, Learning Commons
Music Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism
From the Tufts Libraries: "The aim of this research guide is to amplify the repertoire, music, and scholarship about and by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). This guide is a starting point for faculty and instructors who want to
decenter their pedagogical practices, performances, concert programming, or research
identify resources for bringing diversity, equity, and inclusion into teaching, performance, and research
learn more about musical traditions of underrepresented people and groups
locate repertoire beyond the Western European music canon
Students may find this guide useful for identifying repertoire beyond the traditional canon and learning about music and musical traditions of BIPOC.
A number of resources in this guide are open access or freely available online, while others can be used to identify repertoire, literature, or other content that may be held at Tufts Libraries or other academic libraries."
Music Education: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
From the University of Oklahoma University Libraries.
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