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Music Databases

African American Music Reference (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Text and liner notes covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
The world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries.

Classical Music Reference Library (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.

Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores.

Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Delivers the musical sounds of all regions from every continent.

Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.

IPA Source This link opens in a new window
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Jazz Music Library (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Library Music Source This link opens in a new window
The largest collection of Western Classical sheet music ever assembled.

Naxos Music Library (Naxos) This link opens in a new window
Streaming access to more than 80,000 musical CDs including global sounds, jazz, contemporary and classical music.

Naxos Sheet Music (Naxos) This link opens in a new window
Formerly FreeHandMusic.com, this library service delivers 45,000 digital sheet music titles, in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part.

Naxos Video Library (Naxos) This link opens in a new window
An extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access point for Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference resources.

Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Books, Ebooks, and Media

Library Catalog [Books & EBooks] This link opens in a new window

Includes searching the library's collection of e-books which can be accessed online.

When you are visiting the library, feel free to browse the library's collection on the 2nd floor by call number. These call number ranges are of interest to the field of Music:

M Music

ML Literature on music

MT Instruction and study

Music

Art Song Transpositions (AST)

Citations and Formatting Turabian

Director of Library Services

Music Databases

Books, Ebooks, and Media