Music

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.

Classical Music in Video contains classical music in streaming video format. This is a collection of performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances, and solo performances from around the world.

Concurrent user limit: 5
Naxos Video Library provides a streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

Note: Met Opera has an updated URL as of 4/4/24. The original URL will not automatically redirect. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.
Concurrent user limit: 10
Met Opera On Demand provides access to full-length Metropolitan Opera performances for college and university libraries.

Medici .tv offers classical music content filmed from the 1940s through to the present day, including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries and master classes as well as live events streamed every year from the world's most prestigious venues.

Opera in Video contains an overview of commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Included are videos of staged productions of important opera performances, interviews, and documentaries. Performances cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century. Users can browse by composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role.

PBS Video Collection assembles documentary films and series from the history of PBS into one online interface. The diverse subject matter of the included films makes this an important collection for the study of history, science, business, technology, performing arts, anthropology, psychology, politics, health, and literature.