All Guides: Music: Media & Scores

Media

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The Metropolitan Opera: Nightly Opera Streams
"Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers."
Jazz at Lincoln Center
"This portal consolidates access to all of the online activities Jazz at Lincoln Center is offering globally, for free. We hope these programs, concerts, and discussions bring you solace, comfort, and community during this challenging, unprecedented time."

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Minnesota Opera
At Home With MN Opera: "Minnesota Opera will be here throughout the COVID-19 crisis with regular updates that include music to make you smile, MN Opera news and ways to connect with opera digitally, and fun quizzes, games, and trivia to help pass the time."

YMusic Search Engine
"YMusic is a search engine associated with a music database comprising approximately 39,000 analyzed tracks, a good part of which has an audio link to YouTube and/or Spotify. It covers practically all styles and musical periods until today, which allows interesting comparisons (Bach versus The Beatles, ...)."
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Music Online: African American Music Reference
Text content from various publishers. Includes encyclopedias, scores, manuscripts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, cover art, lyrics, liner notes, songs, and discographies. Use the content = scores limiter to highlight resources containing scores.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works.

International Music Score Library Project/Petrucchi Music Library
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The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge. However, another main goal of IMSLP is to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of compositions: for example, the analysis of a particular piece of music.
Library of Congress: Notated Music
"The Library of Congress has one of the largest collections of notated music in the world with over 22 million items. These include popular sheet music, instrumental and vocal music, scores and parts, and original manuscripts from composers of all eras."
Aperio: The Public Domain Song Anthology
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"Aperio, the University of Virginia’s open access press, and the Music Library Association are pleased to announce a joint publication: The Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels. This collection of 348 songs with modern and traditional harmonization is available for all to use and is free of copyright restrictions. The original songs and the anthology itself are in the public domain, which allows the material to be studied, performed, adapted, and shared without constraint."