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Music Research Guide: Free web resources

Guide to online tools for music research.

Streaming audio (free access)

MITSO audio on MIT Video Services
MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO), conducted by David Epstein, 1960s-1990s
National Jukebox
Historical recordings from the Library of Congress
CHARM
From the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music in the U.K.
Internet Archive (audio)
Free Music Archive
From radio station WFMU.
Apps for music

Public domain music scores online

Note: Music scores in the public domain are usually editions published before 1923.

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Petrucci Music Library. Major database containing public domain scores; includes complete works of many composers.
IMSLP: Other music score websites
Sheet Music Consortium
Choral Public Domain Library
Score Follower
YouTube channel with recording+score videos of modern compositions.

Research tools

Classical.net
Reviews of CDs, DVDs, and books; links to other classical music web sites.
Indexes and other selected sites - music
From the University of California, Santa Barbara Library
Online resources for music scholars
From the Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
WWW sites of interest to musicologists
From the American Musicological Society

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