Music: By Subject Subject Guide

Songs and Sheet Music

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Books about Songs
Secular, ML 1600-2881; Sacred, ML 2900-3275; Texts and translations, ML 54.6 (Reference and General Stacks)

American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion
by Ken Bloom
Ref ML 128 .M78 B6 1996
Basic information on 4800 American musicals-Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, from 1877 to 1995. Vol. 3 lists pop and show songs by songwriter and year. Indexes to song titles and collaborators.

Cyber HymnalLyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and other information on over 2,300 Christian hymns and gospel songs from many denominations.

Encyclopedia of National Anthems
Ref M 1627 .E53x 2003

Folk Song IndexAn index to folk and traditional songs from around the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Contains more than 42,000 entries from more than 2,200 anthologies.
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National AnthemsMP3 files of vocal and instrumental versions of national anthems. Lyrics provided, along with some English translations.

Oxford Book of Carols
Ref M 2065 .N48 1992
Many standard carols, with historical commentary.

Popular Song Index
Ref ML 128 .S3 H4
Use to find popular songs in collections. Lists over 35,000 songs in more than 700 collections published between 1940 and 1988. Includes folk, popular, children's, hymns, spirituals, blues. More info

SongCite: An Index to Popular Songs
Ref ML 128 .S3 G65x 1995
Lists thousands of songs published in collections since 1987. Supplements the Popular Song Index (described above). More info

A-Z Lyrics UniverseLyrics of about 50,000 songs. Browse or search by artist, song, or album. Site users may submit lyrics, so more are being added all the time. Sources aren't always clear, however. More info

Lied and Song Texts PageIndexes by composer, poet, first line, title. Texts in the public domain are available, along with some translations.

Public Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal TextsLinks to sources of opera libretti and secular and sacred song texts.

Song LyricsLinks to sites with opera libretti and lyrics to songs of all kinds. More info

Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920Presents over 3,000 pieces of sheet music from collections at Duke University. Includes minstrels, protest songs, Southern antebellum and Confederate music, spirituals and plantation songs, and more, including some piano music.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet MusicContains over 29,000 pieces of music focusing on popular American music from 1780 to 1960. Images of covers and pages of music are retrievable if music was published before 1923 and is in public domain.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860, 1870-1885Includes over 15,000 pieces of sheet music copyrighted between 1820 and 1860, and 47,000 from 1870 to 1885...popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental, band and orchestra music, method books and instructional materials.

Sheet Music CollectionsA master list of sheet music collections throughout the U.S. Links to digital collections.
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