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Recommended Music Databases

Oxford Music Online
Grove Dictionary of Music is accessible here!
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Encyclopedia devoted to ethnomusicology and music research of all the world's peoples. Scholarly articles and audio recordings of music from every continent.
Music Reference Collection
Music reference works, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, and songsheets covering genres, cultural groups, time periods, and geographic regions.

America: History & Life
Scholarly journals, magazines, and books covering history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to present. For coverage of the rest of the world see Historical Abstracts.
Historical Abstracts
Scholarly journals, magazines, and books covering the history of the world from 1400 to the present (excluding the history of the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

Music Online: Listening
Streaming music from around the world; breadth and depth in coverage of key musical genres: Classical, Jazz, World, American, and Pop.
Musical Genres covered:
* Classical: All major genres & time periods, from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, & the avant-garde.
* Jazz: All major genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band, modern jazz.
* World: Music from 169 countries and more than 1,000 cultural groups
* American: Country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, R&B, & shape note singing.
* Popular: Wide range of popular music from around the world that is not available in our genre-specific collections.
Naxos Music Library
Online music library containing thousands of albums and tracks.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online
Historic audio recordings and materials from field expeditions around the world, focused on the 1960s through the 1980s. Highlights the early study of ethnomusicology and music in its cultural context.
Detailed Guide to this resource.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Audio encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic streaming films and videos, including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs, and more. Films from PBS and the BBC are included.
Kanopy Streaming Video
Streaming documentaries, feature films, & training videos.