Four New Music Collections

The library now offers access to four new music collections--

Classical Scores Library - "will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores." Many of these scores are also found as audio tracks in the Classical Music Library.

African American Music Reference - "From early slave spirituals to 20th century movements revolving around jazz, blues, and gospel," this is a collection of reference texts covering up to the 1970s. Besides standard reference texts, this set includes images, discographies, songsheets and more.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - With more than 700 worldwide experts, this important reference source is now online with detailed articles about music from around the globe.

Classical Music Reference Library - This is a collection significant music reference sources, such as Baker's Dictionary of Music, that is now available online. It covers Medieval to the 21st century and includes terminology, biographies, critical texts, and much more.