Music Online: Listening - Package

"Music Online is the LexisNexis of music, and it may make the use of many traditional library resources unnecessary."—Booklist

A Booklist 2009 Editors' Choice for Best Reference

The Music Online Listening package delivers all of the music content you need, from the world's best record labels and music publishers, together in one place.

• The largest online collection of music recordings available anywhere.
• The most comprehensive collection of materials for the study of music, covering every time period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region.
• The highest quality content—the world's best record labels, artists, and recordings.

The Music Online Listening package of 5 online collections provides unparalleled resources in the following genres:

Classical

• Hundreds of thousands of major-label audio recordings from partners such as EMI, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Boosey & Hawkes, Universal Edition, and the BBC.
• 16,000 classical works, over 200 genres, and thousands of artists and ensembles.

American

• Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings.
• 50,000 pages of reference texts chronicling the African American music experience.
• All genres of American music and time periods covered, including blues, popular, old time, ragtime, protest songs, rockabilly, and more.
• Hundreds of American historical events, commissioned folk songs, and thousands of artists and ensembles.

World

• Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings.
• Extensive reference content, including The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music Online and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
• Traditional and contemporary genres covered, worldbeat, Afropop, ritual songs, folk traditions, Indian classical, and more.
• More than 160 countries, 400 languages, 1,000 cultural groups, and 2,000 instruments.

Jazz

• Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings—the largest available online collection of jazz recordings.
• Great labels, including Verve, GRP, Impulse! Records, Universal Classics & Jazz, Blue Note, Concord Jazz, Riverside, Milestone, Original Jazz Classics, Jazzology, Pablo.
• All genres covered, including vocal jazz, bebop, big band, swing, acid jazz, modal jazz, traditional jazz, Latin jazz, and ragtime.
• More than 100 genres and thousands of artists and ensembles.

Subscribe to one, some, or all of these collections:

Trial and Pricing Information

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