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Michelle Oswell, Humanities Librarian for Music and Literature (HC)
Donna Fournier, Music & Dance Librarian (SC)

Sections:

Musical terms
Scores
Song text
Copyright guidelines
Hymnals
Other resources

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Related Subjects:

Dance

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Online Music Resources

Freely available online resources.

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Musical terms:

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Oxford Music Online

Includes Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.

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Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary

Includes pronounciation. There are some illustrations or video examples too.

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Scores:

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Mutopia Project

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Online music scores

For download.

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Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920

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Sheet music collections

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Free printable music on the web

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Song text:

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The Lied and art song text page

Mostly the original language, some translation

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Song lyrics, libretti

Index to other web pages

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The Aria database

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Operabase

Provides monthly performance data on 400 international opera houses.

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Copyright guidelines:

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Music Library Association copyright guide

Clear guidelines on music copyright issues, "fair use" and the law and changes that are or might be made to it.

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Swarthmore College copyright guidelines

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Public domain music

Information on how to identify published music that is likely in the public domain.

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Hymnals:

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HymnSite.com

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The Cyber hymnal

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Christian classics ethereal hymnary hymn tune archive

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Classical composers database

Daily calendar of birth and death dates of musicians.

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Classical music resources

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Classical Net

Covers all aspects of classical music through an enormous network of commercial and noncommercial links - Now featuring reviews of more than 3000 CDs, DVDs, and Books, as well as 6000 files and over 4000 links to other classical music web sites.

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Classics from the silver screen

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Ethnomusicology, folkmusic, and world music

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Internet resources for music scholars

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Musical theme finder

You put in the theme and it tells you what the music is and who composed it.

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Online music journals, magazines, periodicals and newspapers

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The Red hot jazz archive

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Worldwide internet music resources