Music Research Guide: Open Source Free Music Sites

Free scores to get you through a crisis. These are not great editions, but it will do when your music is 2,000 miles away.

Indiana University's score digitization project.

Comprehensive listing by Harvard of sites that have digitized scores for download.

Sibley's project to digitize their public domain scores. Some are unique to their library.

Digitized African American related sheet music from the extensive collection at Brown University.

Growing collection of public domain art song sheet music. Helpful in a pinch.

These are clips you can use for your video productions legally!

Ongoing free music site to discover royalty free music to use for media projects.

Royalty free music clips with proper credit or license. Wide range of tunes which I have used in making YouTube videos.

Dedicated to the publication of original articles and reviews related to teaching music history all levels and disciplines. The JMHP is a publication of the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society.

There are all kinds of cool internet digitization projects here. This is a fun place to explore. Some projects are current, some are old and musty and seeing the first light of day on your computer!

Want to know who died, when? This is the place to find out.

Music + Practice is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of practices in music.

Open access editions of 17th century music for scholarship provided by the Society for Seventeenth Century Music.

Need a listing of FREE online journals that are scholarly? Check this list!