Humanities Open Education Resources: Music

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

A searchable database comprised of 182 open access journals focusing on music.

Petrucci library: Sharing the world's public domain music

Home of the Choral Public Domain Library

'The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain."

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 638,000 music incipits. These primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. They are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.

Searches across and provides access to the more than 300 digital collections created by the Library of Congress. Includes photos, prints, drawings, maps, books, manuscripts, audio recordings, films, notated music, newspapers, and archived websites.