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As a branch of the Vassar College Libraries, the Dickinson Music Library serves as a resource for the entire Vassar community providing books and periodicals on music, printed musical scores, sound and visual recordings and music-related research help.

Vassar College Completes Grant-funded Archival Audio Digitization Project Completed

Vassar Archival Recordings Project: "Music as Document and Indicator of Social Change"

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MUSIC RESOURCES

MUSIC RESEARCH HELP

ALL MUSIC DATABASES

MUSIC INDEXES

MUSIC REFERENCE: Grove Music Online

MUSIC RESEARCH GUIDES

eBOOKS:

Cambridge Companion Core series (music titles): all Cambridge Companions Core ebooks
JSTOR has also made its library of online books available for free. There are quite a few music-related titles. The music librarian at Ball State University created this alphabetical list of music-related titles that are available through JSTOR.
MIT's new open access monographs program, Direct to Open (D2O).

SCORES (ALL DIGITAL SCORES) Music Online: Classical Scores Library

STREAMING A-V DATABASES

WORLDCAT
InterLibrary Loan and ILLIAD

MAKING SOUND VISIBLE

Check out cymatics, the power of sound vibrations!

Download the Public Domain Song Anthology: With Modern and Traditional Harmonization. Edited by David Berger and Chuck Israels. Charlotteville, VA: Aperio Press, 2020. Or use the PDF below: