4. Digital Music Collections
Digital Audio Services
African American Song (Harvard users)
Online collection of African American song including important artists in the history of black American music. Contains diverse genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, and folk.
American Song (Harvard users)
American Song will contain 50,000 tracks of American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music and include country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing.
Classical Music Library (Harvard users)
Online collection of recorded classical music. Includes short biographies of composers and other reference information.
Database of Recorded American Music (Harvard users)
Recordings (with liner notes, essays, bibliographies, and discographies) on labels such as New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. and more. Includes folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, electronic, contemporary.
Naxos Music Library (Harvard Users; please log out of session after use and turn off pop-up blockers)
Online collection of recorded music, primarily classical, delivered via streaming audio. Naxos Music Library: Jazz: 23,000 additional tracks of music from the Fantasy jazz catalog. The collection spans the genres of jazz, blues, R&B, and more.
Smithsonian Global Sound (Harvard users)
Online collection of recorded sound, including folk, popular, and classical world music, speeches, and oral histories
Sheet Music and Multi-Media Resources
