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Based on Professor Richard Greene's excellent site,  "Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers", " Black Composers - Scores" provides links of composers' names to library holdings of scores of Black composers of classical music.  Clicking on a name will yield the composer's scores in Worldcat, the combined online catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide.  Clicking on the title of a work will show the libraries that own the work.  Musicians wishing to perform a work can check if a local library has the score to a particular work, or request a score on interlibrary loan.  It is our hope that this tool will encourage increasing numbers of performances of this beautiful and overlooked repertoire.  Enjoy!

Introducing TU Library news - Performing Arts! 

Introducing an exciting new site, TU Library News - Performing Arts, created particularly for the Theater, Dance, and Music community, and other interested parties at Temple University.  Check out the Database News, where you will find changes and updates to your favorite databases including Music Online, Opera in Video, and Smithsonian Global Sound.  Under New Resources, you can find new library acquisitions, as well as important and interesting web resources.   The Current Events page features a piece on Michael Jackson, where you can find insight that goes well beyond the news media, as well as news feeds from the arts sections of the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and more.  Enjoy!

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.

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.