Off Campus Access

Subject Guide: Music

Music Links

 

  • Music at FIU
    Links to music resources for the FIU Community made available by FIU Libraries.  Off-campus users will need to login via "Off Campus Access" button on the top-right of the page. 

 

Music Analysis
  • Analysis Index (via University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
    Indexes descriptions or analyses of musical compositions and program notes in books.

 

Scores
  • ChoralWiki (via Choral Public Domain Library)
    Offers free scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
  • Petrucci Music Library [via International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)]
    An internet-based collaborative music score library; you can find tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers here, all available for free download. (Instrumental)
  • SheetMusicFox / sheetmusicfox.com
    Access to completely free public domain sheet music; download-able and printable; content is also browseable by composer
  • Free-Scores.com
    The worldwide free sheet music directory; over 12670 pieces of music available to download in PDF format; site can be accessed in French or English-language
  • Free Printable Music on the Web: A Guide to Internet Resources (by Martin Jenkins)
    A guide to some of the most commonly found music printing formats on the web with sample sites that allow music to be printed or downloaded free of charge.

 

Sheet Music Collections

 

Composer Biographies

 

Music Obituaries

 

Opera
  • The Aria Database
    Collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.
  • OperaGlass
  • Detailed information on many operas, including Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies, Rôle Creators.
  • Operabase
    Database of opera performances, artists, managers and companies.
  • Opera Resources (via University of Washington Libraries)

 

Vocal/Choral Music
  • ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music
    Includes repertoire lists, reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology, and specialized sections for Church Music and choirs in educational institutions.
  • The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
    Archive of texts used in 61,804 Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces.
  • Lyrics World
    Covers songs from 1930s to present.  Lyrics found in English and Portuguese.
  • University of Tennessee Song Index
    This database provides access to about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, located in Knoxville.

 

Jewish Music
  • Jewish Music WebCenter
    Provides an online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music, also includes a database on Women and Jewsish Music.

 

Latin American Music
  • Latin American Music Center (via Indiana University School of Music)
    The collection includes rare manuscripts and published scores, records and books, anthologies of colonial music, photographs of musicians, periodicals, microfilms and miscellaneous documents.
  • The Diaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection (via Florida International University Libraries)
    FIU's Green Library hosts the world's best Cuban music collection. The entire collection has approximately 100,000 items that span the history of popular Cuban and other Latin Music.

 

Directories

 

Dissertations

 

Music Libraries' Links to Internet Resources

 

Citation of Music Sources