Music


Met Opera on Demand offers users instant access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, including stunning HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1935.  Please note this resource is not compatible with the iPad due to its use of Flash Player.  The iPad app does not allow one to access the resource through one's institutional subscription.  (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

Indexes journal articles covering classical, popular, and world music.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works.

Music Online: Listening provides streaming access to over 11 million audio tracks*, across all the key musical genres.  Includes Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound, a ten volume print set of encyclopedias, associated audio tracks, musical illustrations, photographs, drawings, song texts, score examples, charts, and maps.

Formerly known as International Index for Music Periodicals

Provides indexing and abstracting for international music journals from 20 countries, plus full-text from 140 of the indexed journals. 

Music Reference Collection brings together the most comprehensive written collection of materials for the study of music, covering virtually every musical time-period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region.  The collection contains a variety of essential music reference materials allowing users to chronicle the history of music of diverse origins and walks of life.  Includes access to Music Online: African American Music Reference, Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library, and Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.

Find songs according to multiple parameters, including voice type, character's age, tempo, composer, lyricist, and more.

A streaming audio source for classical music. It includes all the music issued on Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo, plus selections from 100+ other labels.  (Restricted to 10 simultaneous users.)

A streaming audio database which includes music from Naxos, Fantasy, Prestige, Pablo, and other labels.  (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

A database of over 45,000 works for consultation or downloading. The FreeHand Solero viewer plug-in available at the site is required for transposing, listening, and optimized printing.   This software is installed on public computers in Gorton Music and Dance Library only.