Song Indexes
The following are song indexes maintained by other libraries that point to their own songbook collections, which may be useful for tracking down song titles:
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Popular Song Database - University of Washington
http://db.lib.washington.edu/popsong/ - Song Index – California Library Systems Cooperative http://www.sjvls.org/songs/
- Song Index - Los Angeles Public Library http://www.lapl.org/resources/indexes/allsong.html
- UT Song Index - University of Tennessee at Knoxville http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/songdb/
Digitized Collections
Scanned (or digitized) images of songs that don't violate copyright restrictions, i.e., songs in the public domain (usually published in 1923 or earlier):
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19th-Century California Sheet Music - from the collections of public and private libraries and museums, primarily in California, including San Francisco Public Library
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Emkduggan/neh.html -
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection – a collection of ragtime, blues, minstrel, and old-time popular sheet music from Mississippi State University
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/main.html -
Choral Public Domain Library - notated music and MIDI renditions of choral music
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -
Free Printable Music on the Web – a directory of websites of scanned sheet music, from Wright State University
http://www.wright.edu/%7Emartin.jenkins/printmusic.html -
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) - a wiki with scanned music scores in the public domain
http://www.imslp.org/index.php?title=Main_Page -
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1820-1860 and 1870-1885 - Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome.html -
Online Music Scores – a directory of websites with scanned sheet music, from Acadia University
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/scores.htm -
Sheet Music Consortium – a cooperative project of UCLA, Indiana University, John Hopkins University and Duke University
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ -
Variations – classical music, including opera, art song, orchestral, chamber and piano music, from Indiana University
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/
