Music
The Library has a large collection of online resources including books, scores/sheet music and audio visual material.
Tip for searching for a musical score
- Search the Library collection for a keyword e.g. the piece of music or composer
- Use the Refine options to narrow Resource Type to Scores
- Not sure of a specific item search for the keyword Music
- See only online items use the Refine options Show Only to Full Text Online
Browzine journals
TIP: Not all journal titles are available to browse, search for a title to see if it is available outside of Browzine e.g. Journal of Jazz Studies
Databases
Search in one of the Library's databases to find more relevant results or items not available through the Library collection. Here are some relevant databases:
- Bloomsbury Popular MusicProvides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day.
- Oxford Music Online An enhanced electronic version of the print Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on all aspects of music.
- Arts:LivePromotes active collaboration between teachers and students and supports teachers in delivering arts education across all Australian Curriculum art forms of music, media arts, dance, drama, and visual arts.
- Gale OneFile Fine ArtsProvides 10.4 million articles to serious students of drama, music, art history, and film-making. More than 250 journals covered in databases are available in full text.
- EduTVAn online TV streaming resource features over 10,000 programs including documentaries, movies and tv shows from free to air and Foxtel channels.
See the Databases page for the full list
TIP: See Multidisciplinary databases for databases that cover a range of topics
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
The collection spans over 120 years of Australian sound recordings, showcasing a wide range of subjects, genres and formats.
Listen to sound recordings from the collection at Search the Collection and Sounds of Australia (selection of recordings of significance to Australia)
LinkedIn Learning Videos
LinkedIn Learning contains thousands of courses (made up of quick videos), covering a wide range of professional, creative and technical topics.
Music topics include:
- Music Theory for Songwriters
- Learning Music Notation
- Music Production: Techniques and Concepts
- Vocal Lessons
- Learn an instrument
National Library of Australia's music collection
The National Library of Australia's collection of digitised sheet music features:
- more than 15,000 items
- refine by decade or by author
- beautiful cover artwork
Trove
Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of partner organisations around Australia.
Search the collections of sounds (includes music & radio segments), printed music, audio books, videos and more...
Here is an example search for Jazz in the 'Music, Audio & Video' category.
For more information see:
Copyright at UniSA
UniSA has a music licence which permits the University to use music in certain ways without seeking separate licences or permissions each time. It covers rights that are controlled by the Australian Music Collecting Societies, APRA/AMCOS, ARIA and PPCA.
Want to know more?
See our Tertiary Music Licence page for details
websites/organisations?
- State Library of South Australia - Music collection
Aims to collect all recordings by SA artists in all genres and all formats. Over 7000 items including sheet music, music dictionaries and encyclopedias and much more - MusicSA
Dedicated to promoting, supporting and developing contemporary music in SA
- Australian Music Centre
The leading provider of information, publications and scores relating to Australian music - Australian Council for the Arts
The Australian government's arts funding and advisory body
- Australian Jazz RealBook
A collection of Australian jazz tunes from Australian composers. Most can be listened to online and sheet music
- Music Australia - Directory
Directory of major performing arts music organisations, music professionals, educators and community organisations from around the country
- SOUNZ - Centre for New Zealand Music
A diverse collection of quality NZ music resources (scores, audio, video etc) - British Library sounds
A collection of unique sound recordings from all over the world, covering the entire range of recorded sound.
- Audio Archive
Recordings ranging from Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.
- National Jukebox (USA)
Historical sound recordings available free from the Library of Congress
- CHARM - AHRC Research Centre of the History & Analysis of Recorded Music (UK)
Online discography and library of recordings, information about history of recording and more...
- Library of Congress Notated Music Collection (USA)
One of the largest collections of notated music in the world
- Early Music Online - Royal Holloway Repository (UK)
A digitised collection of more than 300 volumes of 16th century music from the British Library
- The Mutopia Project
Sheet music of classical music in the public domain
