Conducting Research in Music at Yale University Library 

Supported by UNESCO, the World Digital Library is a growing database of primary source material. It includes manuscripts, prints and photographs, maps, motion pictures, and sound recordings.

Archival Sound Recordings at the British Library

The Bodleian Library at University of Oxford holds over 30,000 "broadside ballads," popular songs sold for a penny or half-penny in the streets of towns and villages around Britain between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries.

What are primary sources?

Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.

For an overview of primary sources at Yale, click here.

Use the Yale Finding Aid Database to search Yale's special collections.

Oral History, American Music (OHAM) is a vast collection of video and audio interviews of 20th-century American composers and musicians.

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