Creative Spirit: THTR 0807

Chronicles the diverse history of African American music, including blues, jazz, slave songs, spirituals, rhythm and blues, gospel, and more.

Contains the digitized scores of over 40 composers including Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Ned Rorem. Links to streaming audio in the Classical Music Library database.

Standard, comprehensive encyclopedia of World Music now online. Each volume covers a geographic region. The last volume includes reference tools and general perspectives on World Music.

Concurrent user limit: 11
Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search several works, including: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music (Second Edition Revised). Sources can be searched independently or together.

Contains 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 contains online listenable classical recordings. This is a collection of music from Medieval to contemporary.

Contemporary world music contains sounds of all regions from every continent. It includes genres and a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world.

DRAM contains a collection of sound recordings documenting American music . Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.

Jazz Music Library is an online collection of streaming jazz, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Music & Performing Arts (formerly Music Online) combines all of Temple's Alexander Street Press music resources: streaming audio, video, scores, and reference material. This includes the following resources: African American Music, African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound.

Concurrent user limit: 10
Naxos Music Library has audio tracks from the complete Naxos Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues. Genres include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese. Biographical information on composers and artists, and album liner notes are also included.

Concurrent user limit: 5
Naxos Music Library Jazz provides music from labels such as Naxos Jazz as well as the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label as well as many other archival audio collections from around the world.