Digital Musicology

CHARM was established to promote a musicology that better reflects the nature of music as experienced beyond the written text.

The archive includes sheet music for film, cue sheets, instruction manuals for film accompanists, and a bibliography of resources on silent film sound and music.

The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collection includes published and unpublished recordings, contained on a variety of physical formats representing the history of sound recording from late nineteenth century cylinders and discs to the latest digital files, with radio broadcasts and spoken word, as well as vocal and instrumental music.

Explore recordings, sheet music, instruments and music-related collections from European audio-visual archives, libraries and museums.

Presents 50,000 recordings from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

This is a website designed to explore historical urban soundscapes in Andalusian cities, enabling users to recreate music of the past in historical locations through the use of online interactive maps with digital resources (documents, videos, sounds, etc.).

Searchable access to recorded track information for concert Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo Classical vocalists. The resource contains a selection from a century of historic and contemporary concert spiritual recordings produced on compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs, audio cassettes and streamed audio files, as well as demonstration recordings from musical score collections.