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/
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Song Index – California Library Systems Cooperative
http://www.sjvls.org/songs/
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Song Index - Los Angeles Public Library
http://www.lapl.org/resources/indexes/allsong.html
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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
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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
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Choral Public Domain Library - notated music and MIDI renditions of choral music
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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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
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Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1820-1860 and 1870-1885 - Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome.html
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Online Music Scores – a directory of websites with scanned sheet music, from Acadia University
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/scores.htm
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Sheet Music Consortium – a cooperative project of UCLA, Indiana University, John
Hopkins University and Duke University
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
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Variations – classical music, including opera, art song, orchestral, chamber and piano
music, from Indiana University
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/
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