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Musical Styles & Genres
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Academic Search Premier
Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Updated daily. Details
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Music Online
Find streaming audio, video, reference, and musical scores in a single search. Details
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Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive dictionary and encyclopedia for all types of music. Includes biographies of composers and performers, histories of musical instruments, descriptions of musical styles, terms and genres, etc. (formerly Grove Music Online) Details
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Opera in Video
Performances of 250 of the most important operas representing the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses, in streaming video. Details
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African American Song
50,000 tracks by the top names in the history of black American music. Details
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American Song
Listen to over 12,000 tracks of American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. Details
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Music in Print
Locate music scores and sheet music in print. Details
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Music from every part of the world, every ethnic group, and on any instrument imaginable, from Appalachian music featuring the washboard to vocal music from Oceania. Details
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  Yahoo's Music Directory 
Links to virtually every kind of music. Organized into categories of: news, sub-genres, most popular sites, an...more

Jazz Review 
Find great album recommendations, interviews, live jazz radio and discussions about jazz.

Country Music Television 
Find news, music, pictures and biographies of your favorite country singers. Or listen to a radio station with...more

Rock on the Net 
Music news, artist spotlights, information on new releases, charts of top singles and music videos, award winn...more

All Hip Hop 
Find news, reviews, and more.

Classical Net 
Articles and reviews of classical music, descriptions of musical periods, lists of recommended books, scores a...more

Red Hot Jazz Archive:Jazz before 1930 
Essays and articles about the early years of jazz.

FolkLib Index Library of Folk Music Links 
Excellent collection of folk music links. Includes links to artist's home pages, biographies, lyrics, magazine...more

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the legendary performers, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys and other...more



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