Music Online is a new search tool that lets you cross-search the Alexander Street audio, video, scores, and full-text music reference collections. The full suite of music collections comprises the broadest and most comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. Only Music Online will deliver audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images – all the Alexander Street music content in your library – through a single interface. Music Online brings something entirely new to digital reference!

Rich controlled vocabularies and Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ give you powerful search capabilities. All the content in Alexander Street’s music collections is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, and ensembles. You can combine keyword and fielded searches to ask creative and highly targeted questions.

The hundreds of thousands of cross-searchable items in Music Online include more than 235,000 tracks; 450 hours of dance and opera video; more than 15,000 scores; and more than 55,000 pages of reference content from dozens of different record and video labels, print and score publishers, including EMI, Boosey & Hawkes, Garland, Rounder Records, Rebel, Arhoolie Records, Verve, Arabesque Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Opus Arte. The continuously growing collection also makes cross-searchable thousands of liner notes, biographies, and images. By the end of 2009, all of the content in Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries will also be cross-searchable though the new interface.

Robust playlist functionality and an easy-to-use clip-making tool allow you to build playlists, incorporating content from anywhere in Music Online—and from anywhere on the Web. You can annotate your playlist, keep it at a permanent URL for private use, or share it. Your playlist can include multiple recordings of a single work, the score, a performance video, an essay published somewhere on the Web, and a biography and photograph of the composer. Music Online also comes with built-in playlists that match leading music textbooks or ready-made playlists for university level courses.

Subscribe to the Alexander Street music products:

• Individual collections
• The Music Online: Listening package
• The Music Online: Reference package
• Dance in Video and Opera in Video as optional add-ons to the packages

Alexander Street music is affordable! A 3 SU subscription to Classical Music Library is under $900. The entire Music Online: Listening package of all 5 audio collections starts at under $3,000 for small libraries. Contact sales@alexanderstreet.com for more information.

The individual collections are available as standalone services.

For the best value and functionality, subscribe to all of the music in money-saving packages.

PACKAGE - Music Online: Listening

Classical Music Library

Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries

American Song

Contemporary World Music

Jazz Music Library

PACKAGE - Music Online: Reference

Classical Scores Library

Classical Music Reference Library

The Garland Encyclopedia  of World Music Online

African American Music Reference

OPTIONAL ADD-ONS - Music video collections

Opera in Video

Dance in Video