Music & Music Education

Contains sound recordings from 25 collections at the Library of Congress, including American music, oral histories, and speeches.

More than 8,000 19th and 20th Century cylinder recordings digitized by UC-Santa Barbara available for streaming or MP3 download. Includes popular songs, vaudeville, minstrel music, comedic monologues, classical and operatic, solo instrumental recordings, bands, foreign and ethnic recordings, and speeches from first recordings ever made.

Interactive library that provides high-quality, legal audio downloads for free and for certain uses (remix projects, production soundtracks, etc.).

Audio archive of live recordings available royalty-free from the Internet Archive.

From Library of Congress.

Online ear-training tool. Includes aural exercises in identifying intervals, chords, scales, and cadences.

A repository for the basics of notation, meter, rhythm, chord structures, and more.

Animated lessons; customizable ear-training exercises including note, key signature, chord, interval, pitch, scale identification drills, ear-training drills, and instrument trainers; compositional tools; and a staff paper generator.

Tutorials on reading music, intervals, scales, chords, harmonic functions, and interactive exercises.

From National Association for Music Education (MENC).

Presented by Children's Music Workshop.

The largest site devoted exclusively to providing free choral sheet music, with more than 10,000 scores available. Searchable by title, composer, musical period, or genre.

Digitized version of Mozart's musical compositions available to the public for personal study or educational use. Includes musical text, sheet music, and commentary.

The e-codices project seeks to provide access to all medieval and early modern manuscripts of Switzerland. Contains 981 manuscripts from 42 different libraries.

International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library. Provides access to more than 200,000 music scores from both the public domain and composers willing to share their music without charge. Also contains more than 20,000 audio recordings.

Contains more than 47,000 pieces of sheet music, including popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books, instructional materials, and music for bands and orchestra.

Nonprofit site, contains both free sheet music and recordings without copyright restrictions.

Offers scores of classical music from composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, and Mozart. Sheet music is in public domain and free to download, print, perform, and distribute. Also contains some audio recordings.

Search engine for scores, sheet music, tabs, backing tracks, audio files, lyrics, MP3s, and other information.

Sheet music browsable by repository, title, composer, publisher, and date from library consortium, including Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, Duke University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and university of Main.

Web site by Donald A. Wyckoff.

Web site by Donald A. Wyckoff.

Blog.

Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy.