Performing Arts Special Collections

Music Digital Collections at UCLA

For help or information about these collections, please contact the UCLA Digital Library Program.

Archive of Popular American Music

Sheet music from the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections' Archive of Popular American Music, a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra.

Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings
A collection of 78rpm phonograph recordings from the largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence.

Sheet Music Consortium
Using the Open Archives Initiative protocol, this project provides integrated access to digital sheet music collections at UCLA, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, the National Library of Australia, the Maine Music Box, and the Library of Congress.