Research Guides: Music: Websites

Evaluating Websites

Evaluating Web Sources
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Library of Congress - Digital Collections
A gateway to the Library of Congress's vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress. The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials.
Open Music Library
The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street (ProQuest) to build the world’s largest free index of digital resources for the study of music. Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books, music scores, audio, and video recordings from the world’s digital collections.

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