Music Subject Guide

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BadgerLink Songbook Database
   Songbook Database

Songbook Database
Locate music in a collection of 1,900 songbooks in the Badgerlink Songbook Database.
*Home Use

Soundzabound
Royalty free music and sound effects designed specifically for K-12 school use.
This resource is made available to you as part of BadgerLink.
 For an explanation of Home Use, go to the Research Center page.

All-Music Guide
Biographies, discographies, and essays about music, searchable by artist, songtitle, album title, and style of music. This is the on-line version ofthe music reference book.

Billboard.com
Online version of Billboard magazine with latest music news, charts & album rankings, featured artists & more.

Classical Archives
A music website designed for a vital but often overlooked audience: lovers of classical music, jazz, Broadway hits, film soundtracks, and world music.

NLS: Music Services
The National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has a collection of large print and braille scores available. Contact the Wisconsin Library for the Blind for information and an application at 1-800-242-8822. For a list of titles, search the catalog using the advanced search option and limit by large print format and music.

Pandora
Type in your favorite artist, composer or song & Pandora will create an Internet radio station with similar songs just for you.

The Piano Education Page
Provides information on learning to play the piano, buying a piano, links to other piano sites, and other piano information. Provided by the West Mesa Music Teachers Association, a nonprofit professional music education organization.

Summerfest
Concert ticket and schedule information for Milwaukee's annual Summerfest celebration.

Ultimate Band List
Provides links and files on thousands of musical performers, bands, and genres.

Wisconsin Music (FolkLib Index)
Discographies and links to biographies, and official sites for hundreds of musicians from Wisconsin. There is a special emphasis on folk musicians, but all genres are represented.

Wisconsin Public Radio
Program schedules, information and news from the State of Wisconsin's public radio network.


Song & Sheet Music Indexes

Appleton Public Library's Songbook Index
Search for song titles in a collection of this library's 600+ songbooks for words and music to a song.

Badgerlink Songbook Database
Search the Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library collection of songbooks and sheet music.

Free-scores.com
Good site to look for classical music.

Mutopia Project : free sheet music for everyone
The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.  Search by composer, instrument, or style.

Patchogue-Medford Popular Song Index
Search for song titles in a collection of this library's 1100+ songbooks for words and music to a song. Also indexes "Sheet Music Magazine" from 1987 to present and is searchable by composer.

Sheet Music Collections
Collections of sheet music with public access (either through a web page or online catalog.) Some sites have digitized collections. From Duke University.

Sheet Music Consortium
Group of libraries providing access to digitized sheet music.

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