Music 

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A union catalog of digital resources. The search engine allows limiting by resource type (text, audio, image, etc.).

The University of California's free public gateway to more than 150,000 digitized primary sources.

A guide to the vast performing arts collections of the Library of Congress, including many digitized resources.

Over thirty collections from the American Memory project of the Library of Congress, including the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Aaron Copland, and Irving Fine collections, Southern Appalachian fiddle music, folk music from the Dust Bowl, and several large collections of nineteenth-century sheet music, among many others.

Broadside ballads are songs that were published in Britain on single sheets (broadsides) and sold for a penny or half-penny from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries. This database provides bibliographic access via a searchable Web database to 30,000 of the ballads, along with digitized images of each ballad sheet. Note that most of the sheets do not contain musical notation, but for those that do, sound files are included.

Stream or download thousands of cylinder recordings from the Performing Arts Collections of the UCSB Library. A significant resource for the study of society and culture of the early twentieth century.

A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts from 800 to 1550. Provides access to high-quality images of some of the manuscripts.

From the Early Modern Center of the English Department at UCSB, the EBBA is "dedicated to mounting online surviving early ballads printed in English," including online images of each ballad, sung versions, and background essays.

An online collection of "138 music autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers' proofs, and first editions, which were donated to the Juilliard School in 2006." Included in the collection is an engraver's proof of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the original manuscript of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge in his arrangment for piano four hands.

Database of over 9,000 folk songs, many with an accompanying audio file.

A searchable and browsable database providing access to online collections of historic sheet music from the combined holdings of several libraries.

Approximately 50,000 rare, digitized 78- and 45-rpm commercially produced recordings from the Frontera Collection, the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican American music in existence.

Texts and audio files of over 640 songs dealing with work, slavery, protest, unions, and other activisms.