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2008

African American Music Reference
Brings togther text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Classical Music Reference Library
Brings together more than 30,000 pages of reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are the reference titles Baker's dictionary of music, Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, Baker's student encyclopedia of music and Women composers: music through the ages. Provides coverage of all classical genres, from the Medieval period to the 21st century.


2007

Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both databases can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score. Content in this first release includes 800 scores (approx. 25,000 pages) of in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series.

JSTOR Music Collection
(through JSTOR Arts & Sciences III)
The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of 52 titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music.

2005

Naxos Music Library
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 140,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these are accessible from computers in the University Libraries, home (via VPN) or office.

Naxos Fantasy Jazz Collection
Gives subscribers access to over 20,000 tracks from the world renowned artists and collections of Fantasy Records. Fantasy Records (and its subsidiary Galaxy) were established in San Francisco in 1949 by Max and Sol Weiss. Over the years, Fantasy acquired other recording companies, including: Prestige (also including its subsidiaries New Jazz, Bluesville, Folklore, Swingville, Tru-Sound, and Moodsville), Riverside, Milestone, Stax Records (and affiliated labels Volt, Enterprise, and Gospel Truth), Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, Specialty, Takoma, and Kicking Mule.  

The library currently has a 5-simultaneous user license for each Naxos product. If you are unable to access them, please try again later or contact Kristin Heath, Music & Catalog Librarian, kheath@andrew.cmu.edu, if problems persist.