Recordings. Scores. Reference. Video.

Music Online delivers all of the music content you need, from the world's best record labels and music publishers, together in one place.

  • The largest online collection of music recordings, scores, reference, and video: over 255,000 recordings from over 17,500 albums; over 17,000 scores totaling more than 330,000 pages; over 400 full-length videos; nearly 65,000 pages of full-text reference.
  • The most comprehensive collection of materials for the study of music, covering every time period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region.
  • The highest quality content—the world's best record labels, artists, scores, and recordings—together with the most essential full-text reference content.
  • Growing in 2010 to 750,000 recordings; 17,000 printable scores; 1,000 hours of video; 500+ full-length video titles; and 100,000 pages of reference content.

"Music Online is the LexisNexis of music, and it may make the use of many traditional library resources unnecessary."—Booklist

A Booklist 2009 Editors' Choice for Best Reference

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Music Online provides unparalleled resources in the following genres:

Classical

  • Growing to 400,000 pages of scores.
  • Hundreds of thousands of major-label audio recordings and top quality video.
  • Partners like EMI, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Boosey & Hawkes, Universal Edition, and the BBC.
  • 16,000 classical works, over 200 genres, and thousands of artists and ensembles.


American

  • Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings.
  • 50,000 pages of reference texts chronicling the African American music experience.
  • All genres of American music and time periods covered, including blues, popular, old time, ragtime, protest songs, rockabilly, and more.
  • Hundreds of American historical events, commissioned folk songs, and thousands of artists and ensembles.


World

  • Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings.
  • Extensive reference content, including The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music Online.
  • Traditional and contemporary genres covered, worldbeat, Afropop, ritual songs, folk traditions, Indian classical, and more.
  • More than 160 countries, 400 languages, 1,000 cultural groups, and 2,000 instruments.


Jazz

  • Hundreds of thousands of audio recordings—the largest available online collection of jazz recordings.
  • Great labels, including Verve, GRP, Impulse! Records, Universal Classics & Jazz, Blue Note, Concord Jazz, Riverside, Milestone, Original Jazz Classics, Jazzology, Pablo.
  • All genres covered, including vocal jazz, bebop, big band, swing, acid jazz, modal jazz, traditional jazz, Latin jazz, and ragtime.
  • More than 100 genres and thousands of artists and ensembles.


Subscribe to one, some, or all of these collections:

MUSIC REFERENCE

MUSIC LISTENING

MUSIC VIDEO

Click on a title above to see details and pricing for the standalone collection.

There are packages available, too! Get unlimited-SU access and the exclusive cross-search interface with the Music Online - Listening package (prices start at $3,000 for small libraries and $9,000 for large sites); and the Music Online - Reference package (prices start at $800 for small libraries and $7,000 for large sites).

Trial and Pricing Information

For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote for your library, email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

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