Research Guides: Music: Listen

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All Music (All Music Guide)
Gramophone
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VCU access only, includes archive it's classical music reviews to 1923.

A cultural dictionary of punk : 1974-1982
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference ML3918.R63 R66 2009
Classical music : the listener’s companion
Call Number: MRS Reference ML156.9 C56 2002
The Jazz Discography by Lord, Tom
Call Number: Reference ML156.4 .J3L6 1992 v. 1-24
The JVC video anthology of world music and dance
Call Number: MRS DVD M1627 .J96 2005 v. 1-30

Naxos Music LIbrary
Offers a comprehensive streaming classical and world music from primary and independent labels. Jazz, rock, classic pop music, and audio books are also represented. Also, explore online resources on musical works, terms, genres and periods and biographies on composers or artists.

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Naxos Music Library
A comprehensive streaming collection of classical and world music. Find also Jazz, rock, classic pop music, audio books and resources on musical history, works, composers and artists.
Music Online
Music Online provides the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Integrated searching by ensemble, genre, historical events and more provides in-depth context for music history.

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(Ancient World - present) VCU access only
Jazz Music Library
Music Online's comprehensive collection of jazz recordings covering thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres from all over the world from the beginnings of jazz to today.

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Classical Music Library
Music Online's largest multi-label database of classical recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Browse, search, create playlists.

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Opera in Video
Music Online's collection of over 500 hours of operatic performances, interviews, and documentaries; comprising 288 operatic works.
Global Music Archive
An archive and resource center of traditional and popular song, music and dance of African and the Americas.
Music Collections, American Memory, The Library of Congress
32 online music collections, including Appalachian, folk music of the Southern U.S., African American music, and Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland Collections.

John L. Clark Collection of Jazz Recordings
78 RPM recordings from 1928 - 1955, in Special Collections and Archives.