The following list is by no means complete, but it is a great jumping off point for anybody who is looking to study music, theater, dance, and the performing arts in general more in depth. These databases and organizations offer a plethora of information on all aspects of the arts from theater seating to sheet music to dissertations.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198428446{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n
Eastman School of Music Sibley Library<\/a><\/p>\n Duke University Music Library<\/a><\/p>\n Sibelius Academy<\/a><\/p>\n Golden Pages for Musicologists<\/a><\/p>\n Performing Arts Links<\/a><\/p>\n Musical America<\/a><\/p>\n New Music USA Online Library<\/a><\/p>\n Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics<\/a><\/p>\n Bach Bibliography<\/a><\/p>\n Jacobs School of Music Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature<\/a><\/p>\n Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection<\/a><\/p>\n The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies<\/a><\/p>\n International Association of Music Information Centres<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198477760{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n RILM<\/a><\/p>\n EBSCO Music Resources<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198536177{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n MTO Dissertation Index: Music Theory Online<\/a><\/p>\n ProQuest Dissertations and These<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”5133″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198552850{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n Musicians Necrology at the Gaylord Music Library<\/a><\/p>\n Social Security Death Index<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”5134″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198632534{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920<\/a><\/p>\n New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division<\/a><\/p>\n Dance Studies Association<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1737146138936{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n Theatre Library Association<\/p>\n American Society for Theatre Research<\/p>\n Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920<\/p>\n The New Deal Stage: Selections From the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-39<\/p>\n Playbill<\/p>\n Theatre History Sites<\/p>\n Power Reclining Chairs<\/p>\n Talkin\u2019 Broadway<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198719340{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n Opera America<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198759433{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n Classical Music in Movies<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198875981{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n ChoralNet<\/a><\/p>\n The Cyber Hymnal<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198901711{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n American Music Therapy Association<\/a><\/p>\n American Musical Instrument Society<\/a><\/p>\n American Musicological Society<\/a><\/p>\n The College Music Society<\/a><\/p>\n Music Library Association<\/a><\/p>\n Society for American Music<\/a><\/p>\n The Society for Ethnomusicology<\/a><\/p>\n Society for Music Theory<\/a><\/p>\n Society for Research in Music Education<\/a><\/p>\n International Alliance for Women in Music<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198933480{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n ASCAP<\/a><\/p>\n BMI<\/a><\/p>\n Harry Fox Agency<\/a><\/p>\n SESAC<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198759433{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n National Music Publishers’ Association<\/a><\/p>\n JW Pepper<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198759433{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n Music Library Association Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians<\/a><\/p>\n Music Publishers Association Copyright Resource Center<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright Clearance Center<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198759433{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n This database is part of the Library of Congress and boasts more than 47,000 pieces of sheet music that were all registered for copyright protection between 1870 and 1885. This collection includes music of all kinds, including popular songs, piano music, choral music (both sacred and secular), solo instrumental music, instrumental music for bands and orchestras, and instructional materials.<\/p>\n African-American Sheet Music<\/a><\/p>\n This collection is part of the Brown University Library and currently has more than 1,450 pieces of African-American sheet music.<\/p>\n Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920<\/a><\/p>\n This collection is part of the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections and has more than 3,000 pieces of sheet music that were published between 1850 and 1920.<\/p>\n The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection<\/a><\/p>\n The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection is part of Johns Hopkins University’s library. This collection has more than 30,000 pieces of American music from 1780 to 1980.<\/p>\n This collection was established by the Lewis Music Library at MIT; it consists of popular songs and piano compositions published in the United States. Most of the items in this collection date from 1890 to 1920, although there are selections of sheet music that were published outside of those dates.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553198759433{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n This database contains 2,700 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900.<\/p>\n UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Music Library: 19th Century American Sheet Music<\/a><\/p>\n This collection is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Music Library. It contains approximately 3,500 titles from the 19th century starting from the 1830s.<\/p>\n UT Song Index<\/a><\/p>\n Part of the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, this song index contains about 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published anthologies.<\/p>\n Online Song Indexes and Scanned Sheet Music Collections<\/a><\/p>\n The San Francisco Public Library put together an index from libraries all over the country that point to their own songbook collections in order to help track down song titles.<\/p>\n Music Library Collections<\/a><\/p>\n Center for Popular Music: Sheet Music<\/a><\/p>\n The Center for Popular Music has a collection of 110,000 sheet music items with dates that range from the late 18th century to the present.<\/p>\n Bert Buhrman Sheet Music Collection<\/a><\/p>\n This collection has more than 5,000 titles with a focus on music from the 20th century.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553199196307{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]\n Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”5146″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text text_direction=”default”]\n [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″] The following list is by no means complete, but it is a great jumping off point…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theater"},"yoast_head":"\nPeriodical Indexes<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554004199{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]ProQuest Music Periodicals Database<\/a><\/p>\n
Doctoral Dissertations<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554024990{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology<\/a><\/p>\n
Obituaries and Necrologies<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554052196{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Find a Grave<\/a><\/p>\n
Dance Sites<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554071164{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Dance Heritage Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n
Theater Sites: From Reclining Theater Seats to Famous Stages<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1745837243102{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n
Opera<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554145803{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]OperaGlass<\/a><\/p>\n
Film Music<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554131514{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Film Music Society<\/a><\/p>\n
Church Music<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554161903{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Musica International<\/a><\/p>\n
Music Organizations<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554184601{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]New York Foundation for the Arts<\/a><\/p>\n
Music Industry Sites<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554203279{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]American Federation of Musicians<\/a><\/p>\n
Music Publishers’ Sites<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554225792{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Music Publishers Association<\/a><\/p>\n
Copyright Information<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554246205{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]U.S. Copyright Office<\/a><\/p>\n
Sheet Music Sites: Databases With Music<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554271258{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-85<\/a><\/p>\n
Sheet Music Sites: Databases Only<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554289205{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]19th Century California Sheet Music<\/a><\/p>\n
Song Lyrics Sites<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”.blogpostfont” max_width=”1000″ css=”.vc_custom_1589554309657{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]The LiederNet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n
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