This guide offers a wide variety of platforms you can explore to surface research materials, scores and sheet music, films, and recordings to support your learning, research, and teaching.
As you move through this guide, you'll find:
While you may find a few video tutorials throughout, this guide still only scratches the surface of how to maximize the tools and resources presented here. Contact your music librarian, lisa Hooper, to schedule a research consultation or workshop for help getting through that research assignment or a deeper dive into the possibilities.
The NLS music collection, authorized by Congress in 1962, includes braille and large-print musical scores, recorded instructional materials, and recorded materials about music and musicians. All materials are circulated postage free, and some digital audio and ebraille materials are available for download over the Internet.
Visit the NLS website for more information.
Across the disciplines there are certainly many shared skills and knowledge sets that maximize your time efficiency in research, but there are also very specific knowledge sets unique to music research that can enhance the depth and richness of your work. The following music research skills resources are written by music librarians and scholars with music students in mind.
Music Library and Research Skills by 
Music Research Data Management by 
Scholarly Research for Musicians by 
Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition by 