MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for instrumental and music studies.
Browse a wide selection of textbooks on music.
The main purpose of this book is to explain certain physical considerations useful not only to a beginner learning how to play a musical instrument, but also to an accomplished musician trying to gain full technical mastery of an instrument.
Project Gutenberg's list of Music books in the public domain that is available freely online.
Project Gutenburg is a database containing books that are either free in the United States because their copyrights have expired, or are copyrighted works that the authors have given permission for them to be distributed freely, in non-commercial means. It also contains a variety of written and recorded music. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org." It has a wide variety of materials that could be of use as supplemental materials to an equally wide variety of courses.
The world's largest open index of digital resources for the study of music.
This selection includes music written by musicians such as Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, etc.
This category contains many more materials than the above, including works by Beethoven, Mozart, and many more artists.
Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.
Interactive Music by drums: African Music - Traditional West African Drumming - Percussion Lessons - Instructional Movies, Texts, and Manuscripts - Drum Set Orchestrations - Interactive African Instrument Museum - Online Music Education - Anlo-Ewe History, Ethnology, Ethnomusicology .
Travel through the history of musical notation and learn how to decode medieval music manuscripts or learn about the psychology of music and movement, and how researchers study music-related movements, with this free online course.
Course videos covering the basics of music, classical masterpieces and orchestral instruments.
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses. Course format generally includes lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).
Find online courses in jazz appreciation and hip hop culture from the University of Austin and Rice University or get an introduction to the music business from the Berklee College of Music.
Open Learn provides eight courses such as "An introduction to music research", "Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective", and "Voice-leading analysis of music 1-3."
This Digital Library portal contains the metadata of the YouTube Channels of the world's Top Universities.
List of scores and books available online.
including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice with links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings and more.
Sharing the world’s public domain music. The contents include searchable scores and recordings.
Electronically available musical scores and more.
Free Sheet Music for Everyone. 2,097 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses, in PDF, MIDI, and editable LilyPond file formats.
These primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. They are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.
History and audio of American folk music curated by the Library of Congress.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
Seach for composers or musical scores. Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.
Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
This searchable database provides bibliographic information on approximately 34,000 ethnographic sound recordings. Most were recorded between 1933 and 1950.
An open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses. Supports active student engagement with music in the theory classroom.
Introduction to works representative of a variety of music traditions. These include the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas.
This textbook is presented in 5 modules: Universals; Instruments; Rhythm; Melody, Harmony, and Texture; and Form
The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
The OER Commons is a single search source that pulls from multiple OER collections, including MERLOT and Connexions. It is a great first step in an OER search, but often more results can be found by searching the specific collection.
MERLOT is a collection of online resources curated by a community of faculty, staff, and students of higher education. This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty. MERLOT allows its users to rate materials and comment on specific resources.
Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism by Thomas Patteson
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Date: 2015
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