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Music Collections in the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library

• Historic American Sheet Music
• American Song Sheets
• Jazz Archive
• The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840
• Additional Music Collections at the Rubenstein Library
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Research

Catalog

Music Research Guide

Databases and Encyclopedias

• Oxford Music Online (Includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
• Harvard Dictionary of Music
• IIMP (International Index of Music Periodicals)
• RILM Music Abstracts
• Oxford Bibliographies Online. Music
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• IPM (Index to Printed Music)
• IPA Source (International Phonetic Alphabet)
• Rock's Backpages
• Full-Text Dissertations
• WorldCat

• More Music Databases

Online listening

• Music Online
  • Classical Music Library
  • Jazz Music Library
  • American Song
  • Smithsonian Global Sound
  • Contemporary World Music
• Naxos Music Library
• Naxos Video Library
• DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

Useful Links

Area Libraries and Resources

• Duke University Department of Music
• Duke Music Department Calendar
• Duke Performances
• Department of Music, UNC Chapel Hill
• Music Library, UNC Chapel Hill
• UNC Southern Folklife Collection
• Classical Voice of North Carolina

 Digital Scores

• IMSLP (Petrucci Music Library)
• Choral Public Domain Library
• Sibley Music Library
• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
• Mutopia Project
• Werner Icking Music Archive

• More Digital Scores

Sheet Music Resources:

• Sheet Music Consortium
• Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 (NYPL)

More Music Links