Searches across notable OER collections including MERLOT, OASIS, and OER Commons
Searches 90,000+ records with the option to search other OER collections and the web
Searches 380,000+ records from 90+ reputable OER sites
Searches 50,000+ records of curated, high-quality OERs
Free resources and educational materials: recordings, sheet music, and textbooks
Textbooks from the University System of Georgia
Interactive, online textbook for college-level music theory courses
Textbooks and additional resources on introductory courses
Textbooks used at higher education institutions
Textbooks, course sites, syllabi, course materials, lectures and more
Books, documents, and lecture notes
Books from academic presses
Directory of academic, peer-reviewed books
Directory of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals
Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musicians' Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing by Kathleen DeLaurenti & Andrea I. Copland
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.
Online music school
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.
Courseware with tools that drives engagement and collaboration
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.
Images under creative commons licenses from museums and other sites (Wikimedia Commons, Flickr)
Search for images licensed for reuse by clicking Tools under the search box then Usage Rights
Search for videos under Creative Commons licenses by clicking Filter then Creative Commons (under Features)
TED Talks from experts on various topics
Search the whole Internet's podcasts; Podcasts are free to students but usually not under CC licenses
List of scores and books available online.
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.
Sounds of world culture
Over 6,000 contemporary music compositions
Diverse types of materials from America’s cultural heritage institutions
Artworks, artifacts, books, videos, and sounds from across Europe
An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU
A database of music in the public domain.
Software applications, recordings, videos, books, and more
Audiobooks in the public domain
2098 pieces of music to download, perform, and distribute
Historical sound records from the Library of Congress
Books (specifically literature) for which the copyright has expired
1,010,000 records of historic music materials
Tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections.
Some elements of this guide were borrowed from the East Tennessee State University Music Subject Guide (CC-BY-NC 4.0) and the Cal Poly Humboldt Library Open Educational Resources (OER) Research Guide (CC-BY 4.0)