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The Music Recommended Sites are broken
into the following categories: Community Resources,
General Resources, Genres, Lyrics
and Venues.
If you experience any outages or errors and are located in a branch
please report the problem to the Information Desk. If you are connected
remotely from home, please use our Webmaster
contact form.
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Alexander Street Press Streaming Audio and Video  |
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Classical Music Library |
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A fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet.
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® |
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An encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The database includes more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
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African American Song |
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Includes 50,000 tracks of music consisting of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American music.
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Theatre in Video |
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Contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all.
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Naxos |
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Naxos |
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Streaming classical music, jazz, folk, pop & rock. This product is streaming rather than downloaded. The user has to be connected to the Internet in order to listen or view it. Available in branches and remotely. For remote access, use this link and enter your library card number at the prompt.
Naxos is compatible with the MAC
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Community
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Maryland
Hall for the Creative Arts |
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A community art center for the visual,
performing and creative arts.
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General
Resources |
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All
Music Guide |
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Extensive information on music of all styles/genres
featuring key artists, albums and definitive music by decade. Search
by song, album title, artists, label or style. |
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Billboard
Online |
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Industry charts on best selling music of
all genres, links to other music-industry sites, touring information,
industry-events calendar and original music reviews going back to
1970. |
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Rolling
Stone Network |
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Multimedia-enhanced edition of print version
with video and print news, music reviews and extensive collection
of artist bios. |
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Genres |
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Blues |
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Blue
Highway |
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Blues resources, annotated links with biographical
profiles of legendary blues musicians, news and essays.
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Classical |
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Classical.net |
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Basic repertoire list, CD buying guide, CD reviews,
profiles of composers and their works and links to sites on composers,
performers, societies, publishers and record companies. |
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Music-scores.com |
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Provides a selection of free classical sheet music
downloadable in PDF, Midi and Scorch formats searchable by composer
or type of music.
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Country
and Western |
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Country.com |
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Artist and recording information, bios, photos, discographies,
new special events and new releases.
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Jazz |
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Coming Soon. |
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Rock |
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The
Ultimate Band List |
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Annotated directory of bands and solo artists, extensive
index to sites on bands, record labels, CD purchasing, concerts, ticket
sales, tours, radio stations and artist bios.
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Showtunes |
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Musicals.net |
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Song lists, lyrics, plot synopses and links for over
80 popular musicals with a searchable database. |
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Lyrics |
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Digital
Tradition Folk Song Database |
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Maintained by volunteers, this site features
the lyrics to folk songs. |
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