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Historic American Sheet Music
Provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
Music for the American Nation
Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
New Mozart Edition
The Mozart complete works edition in digital form.
Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Online
Scores and books in the public domain, many .... unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Finding Musical Scores in our Catalog
Brief video showing how to use our catalog to search for musical scores

Library Catalog - Find books, journal articles, videos, and more

Library Catalog

Find books, journal articles, videos, and more.

Find Articles and Music

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature using a Google search interface.

* Please consult this link to set up Google Scholar with the Carthage College catalog: http://tinyurl.com/pxtrwbl.

* If you find an item in Google Scholar that is not full-text, please check Hedberg Library's catalog to see if we own it or can obtain it via interlibrary loan.

Journal of Music Therapy (JMT)
The Journal of Music Therapy (JMT) is a forum for authoritative articles of current music therapy research and theory, including book reviews and guest editorials.

Fine Arts & Music Collection
The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.
Journal of Voice
The Journal of Voice is widely regarded as the world's premiere journal for voice medicine and research. This peer-reviewed publication is listed in Index Medicus and is indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information. The journal contains articles written by experts throughout the world on all topics in voice sciences, voice medicine and surgery, and speech-language pathologists' management of voice-related problems. The journal includes clinical articles, clinical research, and laboratory research.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library providing access to books, primary sources, and archival and current issues of over 2,000 scholarly journals across from over 50 academic disciplines. View this tutorial:
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
This sound library contains over 174,300 CD-length recordings, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music, which users can search for by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument, or genre. View Tutorial:
Oxford (Grove) Music Online
Oxford (Grove) Music Online offers comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Grove’s 51,000 articles offer overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies, which are curated to guide users through existing scholarship. Grove’s 33,000 biographical articles provide life information and detailed works lists for composers, performers, and other important musical figures. Grove Music Online also features more than 5,000 images, musical examples, and links to audio and video examples.