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SHEET MUSIC

Music-in-Print
Description: Online, searchable listings of music available in print.
Updates: Monthly.

Patchogue-Medford Library Classical Music Index
Description: An index to classical sheet music at the Patchogue-Medford Library.
Updates: Whenever new music is added to the collection.

Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index
Description: An index to Patchogue-Medford Library's popular songbook and sheet music collection.
Updates: Whenever new music is added to the collection.

WORLD WIDE WEB LINKS

Archive of Popular American Music at UCLA
"The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder."

California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index
The California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index contains listings of over 180,000 song titles from over 2,000 sources. The emphasis is on popular music.

Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
"The Center for Popular Music is an archive and research center devoted to the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present...The Center's collection of sheet music includes items from the late 18th century to the present. Approximately 62,000 items have been cataloged and may be searched online.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
"The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain."

Music for the Nation
"Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, all of it published in the United States."

Sheet Music Collections
The Music Library at Duke University provides this listing of sheet music collections with web sites.

U.S. Sheet Music Collection at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"The U.S. Sheet Music Collection in the Music Library at the University of Illinois contains about 100,000 titles of popular music (as well as some classical) from the early 19th century through the 1980s. The music is located in the Special Collections area on the second floor and is building use only. It may not be checked out."

This page was last updated on April 27, 2007.