Music Research Guide

Chorus America is the advocacy, research, and leadership development organization that advances the choral field.

The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades.

The Music Publishers Association is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all ultimate users of music.

The Society for Music Theory promotes the development of and engagement with music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline.

The International Music Score Library Project is a virtual library of music scores in the public domain. There are over 110,000 works from over 14,000 composers.

The Library of Congress has several different digital music collections, ranging from Early American sheet music to the Leonard Bernstein collection.

Part of Johns Hopkins University, the Levy Music Collection of Sheridan Libraries contains over 30,000 pieces of American music dating back to 1780.