Music

This edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach was published in a series of 46 volumes from 1851-1899, by the Bach-Gesellschaft and Breitkopf & Härtel. This is also available in print in our library (M3 B1133 1968)

Sheet Music written about British Columbia, its cities, geographical features, people and other features

This collection features rare and unusual string quartets not available in modern editions from the Duke University Special Collections

This collection holds digitised images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music.

A large collection of online scores in the public domain

This database provides multilingual access to an annotated version of the correspondence of Mozart and his family - approximately 1,400 letters

The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers

A Collection of Books and Scores from the Eastman School of Music. Many of these scores are unique to the Sibley Music Collection

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

The DME is the online version of the New Mozart Edition (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, NMA) which is located in the Music and Media library (M3 M9 1955)

The Virtual Gramophone database contains information and images for more than 15,000 78-rpm and cylinder recordings released in Canada, as well as foreign recordings featuring Canadian artists and/or compositions.

The Wiesbaden Codex (“Riesencodex“, or “chain codex”), is the most significant legacy of Hildegard of Bingen (1097/8-1179).

American Song is a history database that contains over 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

The music comes from Rounder Records, the Smithsonian Institution, Document Records, and other labels and sources. There are fully searchable lyrics where available, beginning with the second release, along with links to Web resources, sheet music, and more.

Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times to the present, including contemporary composers.

This database contains important genres such as Reggae, Worldbeat, Neo-traditional, World Fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

DRAM provides quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. Currently, there are over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions).

Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress

Naxos contains more than 61 000 recordings available as streaming audio 24 hours a day. Along with the Naxos label there are 320 other independent labels included. Genre includes Classical, Jazz, World, Rock and Nostalgia.

OM Archives includes concerts, sound poetry performances, lectures and documentaries in classical music, jazz, experimental music and other forms

This database includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

The Virtual Gramophone is a growing multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound. With a database of images and digital audio recordings, as well as biographies of musicians and histories of music and recorded sound in Canada, The Virtual Gramophone provides researchers and enthusiasts with a comprehensive look at the 78-rpm era in Canada.

The Journal of Music History Pedagogy is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed, open-access, on-line journal dedicated to the publication of original articles and reviews related to teaching music history of all levels and disciplines.

The guiding aims of Search are those of sharing perspectives and fostering discourse concerning the creative arts, above all the art of music.