Recommended Online Music Sources
- Naxos Music LibraryThe Naxos database contains over 2 million tracks, with music of many different genres, from Classical Baroque to Blues. You can search by title, genre or time period, artists, composers, labels, and playlists.
- Choral Public Domain LibraryCPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
- ChoralNetChoralNet's resources and links include repertoire lists, reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology.
- New Music USA Online LibraryThe New Music USA Online Library is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 57,000 works by more than 6,000 American composers, and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).
- Petrucci Music Library (International Music Score Library Project)Petrucci is a wiki-based collection of musical scores, both instrumental and vocal.
- Latin American Choral Music (created by Suzanne Tiemstra)Provides information on a wide variety of relevant subjects to scholars, educators, and performers at many levels, while guiding them to music and other informational sources.
- The Mutopia ProjectA volunteer-built web-based collection of musical scores deriving from public domain editions of music from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, along with many hymns and traditional/anonymous pieces.
Special Resource: Audio Recordings and Sheet Music in the Media Collection
Hekman's Media Collection is on the fourth floor of the library, and houses all of its movies, music, audiobooks and other multimedia items. Here, you can find and check out CDs, DVDs, and even LP records with music of many different genres, including worship music!
- Music CDs are stored in grey file cabinets
- Most popular - Cabinet 4 (classical and popular music), Cabinet #5 (world and ethnic American music), and Cabinet #6 (worship music)
- Choir sheet music kept in Choral Music Collection shelves
- Organized in blue binders by voice arrangement (SA, SATB, etc.)
- Search this collection using the Calvin Choral Music Database here
- You can make copies of any public domain music here - talk to a librarian for more help
- Media items can only be checked out for 7 days, with 2 renewals