Electronic Databases: Music
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 African American Music Reference via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: African American Music Reference contains 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 3,323 essays and images from 84 sources, over 23,603 pages.
African American Song via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
American Song via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
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Classical Music Library
Coverage: Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource, a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. The music moves from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. User can listen and learn at any time from any computer, while simultaneously searching and browsing the reference database.
Classical Music Library via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Classical Music Reference Library via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.
Classical Scores Library via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores.
Contemporary World Music via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
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 ERIC via EBSCOhost
Coverage: Indexes over 750 journals in the field of education from 1966 to present. Includes full text of ERIC Digests from 1967 to present.
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 Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
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Jazz Music Library via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
JSTOR
Coverage: Archive of over 100 full text scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Does not include
issues from recent volumes usually the last 2-5 years.
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 Music Index Online
Coverage: The Music Index ONLINE edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually. Covering all styles and genres of music. It duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Music Online via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of following Alexander Street Press music databases.
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NAXOS Music Library
Coverage: The NAXOS Music Library is a comprehensive collection of Classical music. It includes the complete NAXOS and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, and also includes other genres such as Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. It provides biographical information on composers or artists and it allows you to listen as you read notes on the works being played
NAXOS Music Library - JAZZ
Coverage: NAXOS Jazz database includes the Fantasy label, which has the world's best variety of Jazz repertoire and offers the very best in Blues and R & B. the database has over 23,00 tracks, 1,800 albums and 500 renowned artists.
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 Oxford Music Online
Coverage: Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of the New Oxford Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, The New Oxford Dictionary of Opera, and the New Oxford Dictionary of Jazz. It provides
written music examples, biographies, bibliographies, illustrations, sound archives and etc.
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 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Coverage: The RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is comprehensive international index of scholarly writings on all types and aspects of music. It provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festschriften, films, videos, iconographies, ethnographic recording, concert reviews and etc. from 1967 to the present.
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries via Alexander Street Press
Coverage: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms
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