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Listen to Music Online!

Note: Listening to music online via streaming audio from these services is free for Temple affiliated library patrons.   Temple users will be asked for a username and password if off-campus, just enter your Accessnet username and password, the same that is used for your Temple email and Blackboard.  Even though the streaming audio services are free to Temple patrons, there is a fee if you wish to download music.

African American Song
Covers the genres gospel, spirituals, folk, jazz, and blues and the time period from the late nineteenth century to the 1970's. Can search and browse the collection as well as make individual playlists.

American Song - over 50,000 songs in every style, period, and genre.  Includes Blues, Tin Pan Alley, Cajun, Cowboy, Ragtime, African-American songs, Bluegrass, sacred, and choral music.  Can browse by historical events such as D-Day, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the first moon landing.  Includes presidential campaign songs from 1789-1996.

Classical Music Library
Covers the gamut of classical music styles, genres, and eras. Ready-made playlists include recordings for Grout as well as themed lists for women composers, various forms of music, era, conductors, instrument, mood, and others. Individuals can compile their own playlists.

Contemporary World Music  - contemporary music from everywhere in the world.  Includes genres such as reggae, world beat, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing as well as more traditional genres such as Indian Classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, and more!

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)  -  a non-profit initiative funded by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and other organizations. This database provides streaming audio of American music from New World Records, CRI, Albany, Innova, Cedilla, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable Music labels. A wide array of genres is represented: folk, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic, and more. Searching and browsing by composer, instrument, performer, record labels, and titles of compositions is available.

Naxos Music Library / Naxos Music Library Jazz Comprehensive coverage of repertoire including classical music, jazz, world music, folk, and contemporary music. Search for music by composer, title, performer, instrument, genre, stylistic period, country, and more.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Provides music from all over the world, many from field recordings of ethnomusicologists. Contains the archival recordings of Folkways Records and other labels as well as African Music recorded for the International Library of African Music and music from South Asia from the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology. The collection is searchable and browsable by country, instrument, language, genre, cultural group, artist, and album label.

Academic Search Premier - multidisciplinary database containing information on music, music education, psychology, and much more.

Education Index - Provides citations back to 1929 to articles in journals and books of interest to educators.

Education Research Complete - Covers all levels and all areas of studies in education.

ERIC - the largest database for education covers articles, reseearch reports, conference papers, lesson plans, ERIC digests, and more. Dates back to 1966.

Grove Music Online - Most comprehensive English-language encyclopedia of music.

International Index to Music Periodicals - Full-text and full-image of a wide variety of journals in music.

International Index to the Performing Arts - "Sister publication" to the International Index to Music Periodicals, providing full-text, full-image, and indexing to a wide variety of sources in dance and theater.

JSTOR – has music, education, anthropology, and sociology components.

Music Index - Provides citations to articles to over 800 international journals.

PsycInfo - The most comprehensive database in psychology, providing indexing to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, research papers, and more, back to 1887.

RILM - International index and abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, articles in books and festschriften, and more. Joint project of the International Association of Music Libraries and the International Musicological Society.

Sociological Abstracts - Most standard database for information in sociology, indexing over 1,800 journals in sociology, and providing indexing and abstracts to dissertations in Sociology.

WorldCat - The combined online catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide, providing citations for books, scores, sound recordings, visual materials, and more.