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NEW Databases for Streaming Audio! 

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.

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.

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Note: Listening to music online via streaming audio from these services is free for Temple affiliated library patrons. However, there is a fee for downloading 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.

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.

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.

To find sheet music or sound recordings in the libraries, use the Advanced Keyword search option in the Diamond Catalog.

Example: You want to look up Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

Do a keyword search: Stravinsky AND Rite.

This will bring up a list of various items including books, sheet music, and audio recordings. Icons towards the right side will identify each. Clicking on one of the titles will bring up further detailed information on the item. Immediately underneath the author, you will also see the link (in our example): "Vesna Sviashchennaia". This is the Uniform Title, or the title of the work in the original language. Clicking on this title will lead you to more manifestations of the same work.

Generic titles are rampant in music materials: symphonies, sonatas, overtures, quartets, suites, concertos, etc. For generic titles, enter the plural form of the title (in English) in your keyword search, even if you only want ONE particular symphony, or sonata, etc. You can add other identifying elements such as number or key to your keyword search to narrow your results.

Example: You want to look up Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major, no. 25, K. 503.

An advanced keyword search works best: "Mozart AND Piano AND Concertos and K. 503", or even just "Mozart and K. 503".  Before clicking Search select PRINTED MUSIC or SOUND RECORD under Material Type if desired.