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African American Sheet Music

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An online collection of digitized African American sheet music from Brown University Library in Rhode Island, from 18th century to present day, with the majority of titles from the period of 1840-1950.
 

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allmusic

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Extensive information featuring key artists, albums, and definitive music by decade.

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Historic American Sheet Music

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Digital images of over 3,000 pieces of sheet music, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
 

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Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

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Over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is nineteenth-century America. Search by title, composer, first line of song or chorus, and find a digital image of the sheet music.

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Music Scores

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Free classical sheet music downloadable in PDF, Midi, and Scorch formats, searchable by composer or type of music.

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NAXOS Music Library

NAXOS Music Library

Listen to streaming classical music, jazz, and folk, along with some pop & rock.

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EBSCO Discovery Service

Search through a comprehensive collection of content from many of our Library Exclusive resources. Includes subject indexes and access to full-text articles from thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers.