Research Guides: Music: Open Educational Resources

Welcome

This guide can help you find Music materials from various OER providers.

Please visit the Open Educational Resources Subject Guide to learn more about the following:

General OER providers
Finding and evaluating OER
Licensing
Attribution

Discovery Search

Highlighted Subject Materials

MERLOT
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons-Music
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for instrumental and music studies.
Open Textbook Library
Browse a wide selection of textbooks on music.
The Physical Basis of Music
The main purpose of this book is to explain certain physical considerations useful not only to a beginner learning how to play a musical instrument, but also to an accomplished musician trying to gain full technical mastery of an instrument.
Project Gutenberg-Music Bookshelf
Project Gutenberg's list of Music books in the public domain that is available freely online.

These materials are open educational resources (OER) that are free to use without first seeking permission from the author. However, how they may be used is determined by their licensing .

Music OER Collections

The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.