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Music

This guide compiles a variety of resources in support of music programs and music education at Walsh University. From scores, databases, and music theory to sound recordings, we've got you covered.

Sound Recording Resources

  • American Memory from the Library of Congress
    Sound records from the collections of the Library of Congress, including music, oral histories and speeches.
  • Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
    Online access to digital audio files of cylinders in the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University Library.
  • Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
    Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections.
  • Free Music Archive
    High-quality, legal downloads from many genres by WFMU, a New Jersey freeform radio station.
  • Live Music Archive
    Community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. All music in this collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly non-commercial, both for access here and for any further distribution.
  • National Jukebox
    The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

In the Library

This is just a sampling of the recordings available in the library. Use the advanced search function (books tab in the search box on the library web site) and under Material Type select "Musical Recording" to limit your search. Sound recordings are located above the print journals on the main floor of the library (across from DVD's)