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Databases for Music

African American Song

History of African American music with online tracks for listening. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

Archival sound recordings

12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments from the British Library.

Classical Music Library

Music tracks arranged by composer, genre and alphabetically.

International bibliography of theatre and dance with full text

This database covers theatre, drama, acting training, ballet, modern dance, choreographers, music, opera, popular music, film, visual arts.

Music Online

Cross-search audio tracks, scores, reference works, and video from African American Song, Classical Music Library and Dance in Video.

NewsFilm Online

Selected news from the ITN/Reuters archives. Video playback and download available. Includes 189 items on Music.

Oxford music online

All aspects of music worldwide, includes access to Grove Music online, the Oxford dictionary of music and the Oxford companion to music.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.