Repertoire - Song Lit - Singers' and Choral Directors' Bible - Research Guides (LibGuides) at Butler University

Scores & Songs

An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice by Kathleen A. Abromeit (Compiled by) "Spirituals were an intrinsic part of the African-American plantation life and were sung at all important occasions and events. This volume is an index of spirituals and should be an important research tool for scholars and students of African-American history and music. "
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.S4 A27 1999
ISBN: 0313305773
Publication Date: 1999-01-30
Literature for Voice by Thomas Goleeke
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.S3 G64 1984 v. 1-2
ISBN: 0810817020
Publication Date: 1984-04-01
Popular Song Index by Patricia P. Havlice
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.S3 H4
ISBN: 081080820X
Publication Date: 1975-10-01
Songs in Collections: An Index by Desiree De Charms; Paul F Breed
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.S3 D37
Publication Date: 1966
Wedding Music: An Index to Collections by William D. Goodfellow
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.W4 G6 1992
ISBN: 0810825759
Publication Date: 1992-06-01

The Stecheson Classified Song Directory by Anthony Stecheson; Anne Stecheson
Call Number: Music Reference ML128.V7 S83
Publication Date: 1961

Library Databases containing Scores

Online Music Anthology (A-R Editions) This link opens in a new window
A-R Editions' Online Music Anthology is extensive collection of examples designed expressly for music history courses. A-R's Online Music Anthology contains at least twice as many pieces as print anthologies, all newly engraved and available online.
Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
This five-volume collection encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Recent Researches in Music Online This link opens in a new window
Recent Researches in Music Online contains critical performing editions of music in seven series

Open-Source Score Collections

Acadia Early Music Archive
Beethoven-Haus Bonn Archive
This site offers music manuscripts, music clips, portraits, and sound files of letters written by Beethoven.
Digital Mozart Edition
Digital Scores Collection
Harvard University Library's (HUL) Library Digital Initiative has created an expansible resource of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores.
E-Concerthouse Online Sheet Music Library
"The online sheet music library is a part of e-concerthouse virtual library. The online sheet music library is maintained by OUAS library information officer Tiina Tolonen. In the present stage the library is based on the personal collection of lecturer Kari Kuosmanen, which consists of thousands of notes. This collection can not be published in its entirety for copyright reasons." This site "has all the Schubert Lieder (besides many other things) in fully transposable Sibelius files. The search engine is not too good (so search for example just with "trauer" and "perle" respectively)."
Historic American Sheet Music
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of over 3000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
The Howard W. Wildin Sheet Music Collection
The Howard W. Wildin Sheet Music Collection contains 18,584 pieces, mainly of original American popular sheet music dating back to the mid-19th century including several hundred published musical and film song folios, musical artist folios, musical genre folios, and dance folios. Some pieces from different countries are also part of the collection.
IMSLP: International Music Score Library Project (Petrucci)
IMSLP, also known as the International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library, was started in 2006 with the goal of freely providing music scores. It has expanded to provide scores, recordings, and analyses with an ultimate goal of gathering all public domain scores and music released to the public. On the main page, visitors may search for works by composer (or composer's nationality), genre, time period, or difficulty.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online
Link to Mozart music online. This site is in German.
Sheet Music Consortium
A unified index to a broad group of digitized sheet music collections, including contributions by Duke University, Johns Hopkins, Indiana University, and UCLA. Useful to researchers interested in sheet music and to social historians.