Music
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Finding Songs
General Resources -- Art Song and Opera -- Broadway/Musicals -- Popular Music-- Sacred Music --Sheet Music
General Resources
ASCAP's Ace - Database of songs licensed by ASCAP in the US
From studio to stage : repertoire for the voice. Music Ref. ML128.V7 D67 2002
MusicLink - University of Tennessee, Knoxville Song Index - Index to songs in over 1400 published anthologies, searchable by either song or anthology.
Song Index (Arizona State University) - Indexes both popular and art songs in anthologies owned by ASU.
Songs: A Finding Guide (UC Santa Barbara)
Art Song and Opera
Aria Database - The Aria Database is a diverse 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..
Classical vocal music in print. Music Ref. ML128.V7 N335. Includes supplements.
Texts of Lieder and Art Songs - Includes indexes by composer, title, first line and poet; some include English translations.
Broadway/Musicals
Musicals.Net - Includes lyrics to many popular musicals.
Popular Music (including Sheet Music)
Elsie Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection, originally the University of Arizona collection of popular music, was renamed after Elsie Phillips, the first University of Arizona Music Librarian. The collection contains music to 5,000 tunes. Please ask at Fine Arts reference desk for assistance.
Hill Collection, Fine Arts Library Use this database to find individual songs in the UA LIbrary's Hill collection of popular music.
Historic American Sheet Music - digitized sheet music from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The database can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject, illustration type, advertisements found in the sheet music, or by decade.
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 The Library of Congress American Memory Project's website. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject or author's name.
Indiana University Sheet Music Collection. Sheet music is held in several repositories at Indiana University. This web site allows you to search some of the holdings from the Lilly Library's approximately 150,000 pieces of sheet music, including those for which there are digitized images available.
International Lyrics Server - Includes lyrics to nearly 100,000 songs of all styles such as Rock, Pop, Oldies, Folk and many more.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.
Library of Congress American Memory Project Sheet Music Collections. A number of collections of sheet music are accessible here, including collections of African American sheet music and historic American sheet music from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Official State Songs (U.S.) - Includes texts of the official state songs of all 50 U.S. states, arranged by state.
Popular American Music Collection (UCLA) a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder.
Second Hand Songs: A Cover Songs Database. Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song. The database already contains 46377 songs (11875 originals, 33135 cover songs and 1367 songs with samples) and 17586 artists (performers and songwriters).
Sheet Music Collection (UW-Milwaukee) - Indexes a small but growing collection of sheet music, mostly popular songs from the 1890s to the 1940s, some patriotic war songs, love songs, songs from movies, sacred songs, etc., from University of Wisconsin's Music Library.
The Song Tapper. This site lets you search for a song, by tapping the rhythm of its words (lyrics).
Sacred Music
Catalogue of choral music arranged in Biblical order. Music Ref. ML128.C54 L4 1996. Inlcudes supplement.
Church and worship music: an annotated bibliography and information guide. Music Ref. ML 128 C54 S53 2005
The Cyber Hymnal - Includes texts, sound files, background information for over 1300 hymns from many denominations.
The Hymn Tune Index: a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820. Music Ref. ML 128.H8 T46 1998. 4 vols.
The Hymnal Companion. Contains information about hymns, including history, composer and audio files of the actual hymns. Does not include lyrics.