LibGuides: Women's History Month LibGuide: Online Resources

Online Collections and Databases

American Women: Resources from the Performing Arts Collections
The Music Division's collections present myriad resources to study American women music makers and provide a unique lens through which to explore women's movements in the United States.
Boulanger Initiative Database: Women and Gender-Marginalized Composers Repertoire Database
Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender marginalized composers by fostering inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be.
Grove Music Online: Women Composers by Time Period
Browse a list of women composers by time period with this interactive timeline.
Kassia Database: Art Songs by Women Composers
The Kassia Database is a resource for musicians to aid in the discovery and celebration of art songs by women composers. The database includes songs from the Baroque period through the 21st century, and have been categorized by level, voice type, language, composer, and composer dates.
Many Women Database
An index of over 1,000 composers, improvisers, and global sound makers--the main focus of this index is on women making various kinds of experimental/avant garde music.
A Modern Reveal
A project that compiles and publishes primary and secondary sources on women in the development of classical music.
A Seat at the Piano
A Seat at the Piano promotes and advocates for the inclusion, study, and performance of a more equitably representative body of piano works. By creating a resource for musicians, pedagogues, and curious music appreciators, ASAP aims to broaden their knowledge of composers and their works.
Sheet Music in Library Special Collections
UCLA Library's research guide on the roles and depictions of women in their special collection of sheet music.
Women in Dance
Women in Dance aims to provide opportunities in accessing broader and more visible platforms, expanding the voices of artists/scholars, and strengthening the capacity and vibrancy of women in dance-making and dance-related fields.

Brava: Women Make American Theater
Digital collection from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on the role of women in the development of American Theater.
Her Noise Archive
Her Noise Archive is a resource of collected materials investigating music and sound histories in relation to gender bringing together a wide network of women artists who use sound as a medium. While it exists as a physical archive, this digital collection highlights key elements of the original project with a number of artist materials made available via this site.
Jacob's Pillow: Women in Dance Archives
A collection of women in the history of dance from Jacob's Pillow, a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts.
Kennedy Center: Women in the Arts
From providing historical inspiration to preserving cultural traditions to pushing the boundaries of creativity, explore the contributions women have made (and continue to make) to the arts.
Music by American Women Composers
NYPL's archival collection of American Women Composers (located at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Playbill Women's History Interactive Timeline
Use Playbill's Women’s History in Theatre Interactive Timeline to explore the milestone moments that pushed representation forward in the industry.
Women's Music Archives Records and Collected Music
The Women's Music Archives records and collected music consists of materials collected and recorded in order to document music made by women. Materials include bibliographies, biographical sketches, ephemera, correspondence, visual material, songbooks, and a/v material
The Women's Philharmonic Archives and Advocacy.
The Women’s Philharmonic began with the vision of compensating for the under-representation of women within the mainstream classical music world by creating an orchestra comprised entirely of women performing music composed by women.
Women Composer's Collection
A collection of mostly 19th- and early 20th-century musical scores by women composers held at the University of Michigan Music Library.
Women in Music
Explore collections related to women in music from across the Smithsonian's collections.
Women in Music from the Smithsonian
Digital collections compiled by the Smithsonian that highlight the role of women in the development of American music.

Arthur Unger Collection of Recorded Interviews
Critic Arthur Unger collection consists of taped interviews with television personalities, including Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, and many others.
Berklee's Women in Music & Performing Arts Podcasts
This is a guide to discover books, articles, and videos on women and gender via resources available through The Library at Berklee
Lewis Archibald Collection of Recorded Interviews
Collection consists of cassette tape recordings of actors and performers collected by Lewis Archibald, a jounalist who wrote for the magazine 'Downtown.' Personalities interviewed include many famous actresses and performers from twentieth-century New York.
Women of Rock Oral History Project
A collection of digital interviews and written transcripts housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, focusing primarily on women who have been left out of the popular rock narrative.
Women Who Rock Oral History Project
The Women Who Rock Digital Oral History Archive fosters the development of participant-driven scholarship, on-line exhibits, curriculum, and media production. This collection will expand as we continue to conduct more oral histories, generate more programming, and create new media and scholarship in coming years.