Library: Music Research Guide: Open Source Free Music Sites

I need sheet music!

IMSLP
Free scores to get you through a crisis. These are not great editions, but it will do when your music is 2,000 miles away.
Variations Indiana
Indiana University's score digitization project.
Harvard Open Source Listing
Comprehensive listing by Harvard of sites that have digitized scores for download.
Sibley Music Digitization Project
Sibley's project to digitize their public domain scores. Some are unique to their library.

Creative Commons Free Music
These are clips you can use for your video productions legally!
CCMixter Music Discovery
Need a quick something to put with your video? This site may have what you're looking for.

This is a listing of new open source journals and free music sites I have come across through list servs or just looking around.

Journal of Music History Pedagogy
Dedicated to the publication of original articles and reviews related to teaching music history all levels and disciplines. The JMHP is a publication of the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society.
Internet Archive
There are all kinds of cool internet digitization projects here. This is a fun place to explore. Some projects are current, some are old and musty and seeing the first light of day on your computer!
Music Necrology File
Want to know who died, when? This is the place to find out.

Directory of Open Access Journals (Music)
Need a listing of FREE online music journals that are scholarly? Check this list!

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