Research Guides: Music and Dance: Listening

Music Audio Databases

Explore musical genres, discover new artists and composers, and build your own playlists.

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To see an alphabetical list of all SSU Library databases, visit A-Z Database List.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
A streaming classical music listening library, with acess to almost 130,000 CDs with more than 1.9 million tracks. Updated monthly. Limited to 10 simultaneous users.
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Database of Recorded American Music This link opens in a new window
High quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composer Recordings (formerly Composer Recordings Inc./CRI) and other important labels. It is a diverse catalog over 4,000 albums from 42 independent labels of American music in genres such as folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, and electronic.

Boston Public Library Resources
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Web-based, free resources:
IMSLP
Spotify
YouTube