NAXOS Music Library
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 170,737 CDs with more than 2,673,340 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 600 new titles are being added to the library each month.
The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 950 record labels, with more labels joining every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.
- Recent Additions Albums added in 2022
- New Releases New releases for 2022
- Naxos News Hot off the press news items from Naxos
- Composers Access a wide and diverse list of composers
- Aural Training Listen! is designed as an aid for those involved in teaching aural perception skills, either to school classes or individual students. The exercises that follow are graduated in difficulty, from an initial level of simple recognition of individual musical elements, to the more sophisticated demand of synthesising these in order to deduce in which period of music history a composition may have been written. At most of the levels in this course, teachers will find three sets of exercises: A, B and C. Students are given fewer seconds to arrive at their answers as the tests proceed from set to set. The aim is to encourage and develop a rapid aural acuity in students, so that they do not simply hear music, but Listen! intently to it.
- Work Analyses Focussing on core classical works, these analyses – all written by music experts in the UK – are both clear and detailed. They are suitable for advanced level students but also for anyone who is keen to explore a work in greater depth. Notation examples and references to audio enhance the texts and enable a greater level of understanding and appreciation. About NML |Terms of Use |Privacy Policy |Accessibility Statement |Contact Our Sales Team General Enquiries: All countries except USA | USA | Visit Other Libraries:Jazz |World |Video |Spoken Word |Works Database Follow Us: Certain historical recordings are not available in the United States, Australia and Singapore due to copyright laws in these countries which may provide terms of protection for sound recordings that differ from the rest of the world.. Copyright © 2022 Naxos Digital Services US, Inc. All rights reserved.
Articles/Databases
- Naxos Music Library The contents can be browsed by composer, artist, genre, category and label. Users can search with our fast and easy-to-use keyword search engine, or by our sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 14 search criteria. In addition to listening to recordings, NML provides liner notes for many albums. Listeners can create personalized playlists or enjoy our predefined Naxos Music Library playlists.
- Grove Music (Oxford University Press) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Instruments, music theory, musical eras, and other music related topics. Best for: Starting your research or defining a term. Includes: Short reference entries and definitions.
- Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Architecture, art, design, and manufacturing. Includes: professional magazines, scholarly journals, conference papers, and news.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): All topics. Best for: Starting your research. Includes: scholarly journals, news, and magazines.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new windowBest for: Assignments needing information on authors, scientists, politicians, artists, celebrities, historical figures, etc. Includes: Biographies, news, media, and some scholarly journals.
View a video tutorial or a printable handout on this database. - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSubject(s): Humanitites, social sciences, and sciences. Includes: Scholarly journals, book chapters, and primary sources.
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NEW Collections - October 2021
Video/Media
- MUSAICLarge video collection dedicated to providing access to classical music instruction and study. Videos are aimed at students and performers, so you will find live performances, how-to instructional videos, and artist profiles, among other topics.
- Music & Dance Collection (Films on Demand)Over 1,000 relevant videos to every aspect of music study.
- Music & Performing Arts Collection (Alexander Street Press)Collection of videos covering American Music, Classical Music, Jazz, Popular Music, and World Music
Music Scores
- Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press)Thousands of full, study, piano, and vocal scores of all classical music genres and time periods. Includes both major and less-known composers' works.
Audio
- British Library: Sounds"Over 90,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments" from the British Library.
- The Global JukeboxReally interesting collection of music recordings from around the world. Excellent way to explore music from around the globe!
- Music, Arts, & Culture - Internet Archive"This collection features audio collections reflecting music, art and culture. Collections include the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the Other Minds collection, the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th Century found in the 78 RPM collection and oral history projects."
- National Jukebox - Library of CongressDigitized versions of some of the earliest sound recordings in the Library of Congress.
Websites
- International Music Score Library ProjectCollections of sheet music and recordings - all of which are in the public domain.
- Library of Congress - Music Resources OnlinePresented by the Library of Congress, this site acts as a directory to the digitized pieces of their music collections. Here you'll find sheet music, videos, interviews, and even articles related to several different areas.
- Musictheory.netContains quick tutorials and practice exercises on many components of music theory including notation, scales, chords.
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