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- Licensed Databases
- Naxos Music Library - Listen Online!
10,000 CDs waiting to be streamed for your listening pleasure. Classical, jazz, folk, blues, chinese, and new age music.
- eAudiobooks Overdrive
Downloadable music from Overdrive. Selection of titles is limited but growing. Unlike Naxos which only offers streaming music, these titles can be downloaded for 21 days, after that they expire.
- Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (now called Oxford Music Online)
Read the full text of this large authoritative music encyclopedia. Available in all 16 locations and from your home or office.
- Music Online
More than 150,000 tracks of streaming music. Includes Classical, Contemporary World, Jazz and American Song. Also includes the Classical Scores Library with 14,000 scores and manuscripts.
- Lists of Selected Titles
- Find New CDs by Genre - a great way to find new CDs in our collection
- Highlighted Web Sites
- Are You Infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit?
More information about CDs infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit
- List of Infected Music CDs from Sony/BMG
EFF has released a list of CDs known to have Sony's deadly rootkit DRM technology.
- Selected Web Sites
- 2008 best music scribing awards
- A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States
Intriguing and informative site dealing with the history of banned and censored music.
- All But Forgotten Oldies
If you are trying to remember a song or an artist from the sixties or seventies, this is a good place to start.
- All Music Guide
A great starting point for reference searching. Search by artist, album, song or genre. Lots of bios and related links.
- Allrecordlabels.com
A great starting point for label searching on the web with links to record labels worldwide. You can also search by genre.
- Amazon.com Best Music of the Century
- Amazon.com Music Downloads
- anyTitle.com
A terrific search engine site. Search for artists, albums, song titles, MP3's, and more across many sites at once.
- Ask Yahoo!
Interesting questions and informative answers on the subject of music from the web portal.
- BBC Music - Artist/Album Search
Useful site from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) with searchable artist biographies and discographies.
- Billboard Number 1 Songs
A straightforward chronological listing of Billboard magazine's number one songs from 1956-1987.
- Canadian Music Hall of Fame
Established by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1978 to honor the many icons of Canadian music.
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA)
Web site for the non-profit music licensing agency which handles the mechanical licensing for most music publishers in Canada.
- CDNOW Digital Downloads
- Center for Black Music Research
CBMR is an internationally recognized center devoted to research into
the music of the global African Diaspora.
- Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project
Does that new song sound familiar? This site is a good place to start your search.
- Final Credits
From Last Link On The Left, reflecting on lives that have contributed to the world of music.
- Frontline: The Way The Music Died
A comprehensive look at the current state of the music industry and how it got there, this web site goes into far more detail than the hour-long television program could.
- Future of Music Coalition
A not - for - profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy, and intellectual property law communities.
- Gnoosic
A new way to discover music you might like based on what you already like or dislike.
- Grammy.com
Official site for the annual music awards.
- I Hear America Singing
A portal to the music and performing-arts collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
- Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
Downloadable archives of strictly noncommercial, artists - approved live recordings.
- List of Infected Music CDs from Sony/BMG
EFF has released a list of CDs known to have Sony's deadly rootkit DRM technology.
- Liveplasma
A new way to search for related musical acts that graphically displays results.
- Magnatune
New approach to online music sales. Listen to full albums; if you like it, you decide how much it's worth ($5 minimum).
- Massive Database
From the National Science Foundation in the United States, the "Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere", database contains information on over 1700 math and science songs for all ages.
- MP3.com
- Music Rising
Web site for the project spearheaded by U2's The Edge to rebuild the musical heart and culture of United States' Gulf Region by replacing the musical instruments lost during Hurricane Katrina.
- Music Search.com
A search engine for music information on the web.
- Music Searcher.com
A great place to start your music searches.
- Musiciopedia
Great resource of links on all types of music.
- Narcopop
Ambient, jungle, electro, funk, house, industrial, hip hop, punk, jazz, trance, latin, pop, techno, world ...
- National Music Museum
Web site for the American National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota.
- National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Similar to the Library of Congress film preservation project for important American movies, this project will select fifty American sound recordings per year from the past century worthy of addition to a national registry.
- One Million Free and Legal Music Tracks
Compiled by the weblog Red Ferret Journal, an annotated listing of web sites where you can find up to a million (we assume) free and legal music tracks.
- Public Domain Music
This is a good place to start a search for royalty free music.
- PublicRadioFan.com
A great way to discover and listen to public radio from around the world.
- Recording Technology History
In depth look at the development of recording technology.
- Science of Music: Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist
Geared towards the younger set, this site has some entertaining and enlightening online exhibits on the science of music.
- Sheet Music Magazine Index
Santa Cruz Public Libraries (California) includes a searchable index to Sheet Music Magazine, from 1977 to the present, within the song book index for their music collection.
- Sheet Music Magazine Index
Sterling Municipal Library, Baytown, TX, also indexes the music from Sheet Music Magazine, from 1977 to the present.
- Shoutcast
Web site for streaming audio technology used by many web broadcasters with direct links to their sites.
- Sibl Project: Songs Inspired By Literature
A project to promote literacy through music by revealing the literary inspiration behind many songs.
- Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
Web site for Canadian music publishing organization.
- Song Quotes
Searchable database of quotable song lyrics from the rich tapestry of pop music.
- Stanton's Sheet Music Listening Library
A commercial site designed for music educators looking for sheet music for classrooms, the site includes MP3 files for many of the selections.
- The Envelope
From the Los Angeles Times a comprehensive database of winners and nominees from film, music, television, and theatre.
- The Official UK Charts Company
Well done, searchable site for information on the UK pop charts from the fifties to the present.
- TheFreeSite.com
A good roundup of free "streaming" audio and video resources on the web.
- Tinfoil.com
Old tech meets new tech. Explore and sample the world of wax cylinders and old 78's.
- Turtle's "78 RPM" Jukebox
Listen to old public domain 78's converted to MP3's.
- Ultimate Band List
One of the original web pioneers and still going strong. Search for your favorite band/artist websites here.
- UpTo11.net
What to listen to next? This web site offers suggestions from fans who are into the same styles of music that you are.
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
Musical dictionary with audio examples.
- Webjay
A combination of weblogging and webcasting that links to only authorized music files providing numerous playlists compiled by contributing DJ's.
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