Audios/Videos
Use The Gramophone Classical Music Guide to find reviews of recordings of classical music in CD, DVD and electronic formats.
Use library's catalog to locate music CDs and vinyl records.
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Global Music Archive Multi-media reference archive for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.
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Naxos Music LibraryOnline streaming audio collection of over 144,000 classical music recordings.
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NPR Music Music news, concerts and videos.
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Pandora Internet Radio A online music streaming and automated music recommendation service.
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YouTube. UNESCO TV Videos produced by or in cooperation with the UNESCO.
Song Lyrics
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MLDb, the Music Lyrics Database A music lyrics database with 220 000+ song lyrics and more than 10000 artists.
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LiederNet Archive Includes: texts and translations to Lieder, melodies, art songs, choral pieces, and other vocal music.
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Folk Song Index An index to traditional folk songs of the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Each entry includes the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and full bibliographic information on the source. The index contains over 62,000 entries, and, to date indexes over 2,400 anthologies.
References
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Music Online. African American Music Reference Includes: full-text from major reference works, personal narratives and oral interviews, manuscripts, songsheets, lyrics, discography data.
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Music Online. Classical Music Reference Library Includes: Baker's dictionary of Music; Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians; Baker's student encyclopedia of music. and other titles. Contains: musical and notational terms, score and lyric excerpts, biographical info, images biographical information on major composers and artists, music score and lyric excerpts, musical and notation terms. Coverage: medieval to the 21st century
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Music Online. Classical Scores Library. Volume I Description of this database.
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Music Online. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Includes: over 9000 description of different musical genres, practices, performances
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Public domain music scores.
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Music Treasures Consortium (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress) Online access to music manuscripts and print materials from 16th to 20th centuries, held at the world renowned music archives.
Print resources:
Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians Ref ML105 .S612 1997
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians Ref ML105 .B16 2001
The encyclopedia of popular music (3rd ed.) Ref ML102.P66 G84 1998
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians (2nd ed.) Ref ML100 .N48 2001
Journal Articles (Databases)
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JSTOR. Archival JournalsProvides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles and books in 75 subject areas.
Coverage: The availability of most journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "moving wall," which is an agreed-upon delay, usually three to five years.
Find all JSTOR journal titles in library's catalog