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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.
Call Numbers in Music
M – Music Scores
ML – Books, information about music
MT – Music Education
Most libraries in the United States use the Library of Congress classification. Therefore, if you become familiar with this arrangement of materials for music, you will be able to find materials quickly and easily not only at Temple University Library, but also at most major libraries in the U.S. A further explanation of Library of Congress call numbers for music can be found at the
Guide to Music Classification Numbers.
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Music, Dance, Theater
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