Music and Art

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Classical Music Library
CML is the world's first online collection of classical music recordings with a supplementary reference database. CML enables patrons to listen to music both in the library (with headphones) or at home (by remotely accessing the service via the library's secure system), while simultaneously searching and browsing a reference database."

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff
  • Maximum number of simultaneous users: 3

Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
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Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It is updated annually.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
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IPA Source
This resource provides transcriptions and literal translations of songs and arias.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.

Music Index (Harmonie Park Press)
The Music Index is compiled from US and international music periodicals offering the researcher access to a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. A broad range of subjects is covered, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music.

Naxos Music Library
This resource contains the music of over 18,000 CDs, covering rock, pop, adult contemporary, classical, jazz, folk, and world music genres. The music is streamed to your computer in CD-quality audio. NML also includes valuable information, including artist and composer biographies, liner notes, opera synopses, and more. Use the playlist to create your own list of favorite NML music.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.

Naxos Sheet Music Library
This resource offers over 45,000 sheet classical and jazz music titles in all genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part.

  • You must install the free Solero Music Viewer to use sheet music from the Naxos Sheet Music Library. Click here to download Solero.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.

Music Net Resources
A directory of useful music-related Internet sites compiled by Indiana University.