Friday, January 22, 2010

New Database: Music Online

We are pleased to announce a significant upgrade to a comprehensive Music Online subscription* that integrates ALL Alexander Street online music databases, as well as the full text of several music reference sources and music scores.

With Music Online, Alexander Street Press presents a database that contains streaming audio, videos, reference materials, and scores online. Users can cross-search all of the music-related databases from Alexander Street Press at one time to view results with mutiple databses in one results list. Music Online can cross-search any combination of these databases:

Music Online Collections:
  • American Song
  • Classical Music Library
  • Contemporary World Music
  • Dance in Video
  • Jazz Music Library
  • Opera in Video
  • Smithsonian Global Sound

Music Reference Titles (Full text)

  • African American Music Reference
  • Classical Music Reference Library
  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
  • Classical Scores Library

The complete Music Online Collection will pull together 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video all in one place for easy research. Each item will be tagged to make it searchable by subject, genre, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, and ensembles. Users can also search individual databases by navigating to the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.


*This resource is only available to the students, faculty, and staff of Monmouth College.

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