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Digitization of sheet music, musical manuscripts, and other primary music resources continues to advance rapidly. Here is a selection of digital archives that could be useful in your research.
Featuring choral music from the collections of the Library of Congress, this resource is a result of collaboration between the Library and the American Choral Directors Association.
483 reel tapes from Juilliard's first decade of audio recordings, 1951 to 1959, are available online. Featured performers include John Cage, Isaac Stern, and Risë Stevens, as well as student performances by Van Cliburn and Leontyne Price.
Brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
Multimedia reference archive and resource center from the Wilson Music Library at Vanderbilt University, providing access to sound recordings and images related to indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas.
Links to over 100 sites compiled by the Harvard College Library, including archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; and musical reference works, most of which are accessible to users outside of Harvard.