Databases and Indexes

Streaming Audio
(available to Conservatory students, faculty and staff only)

Naxos Music Library
Thousands of audio tracks! Includes classical music as well as jazz, new age, educational

DRAM (Recorded Anthology of American Music)
Currently DRAM's collection contains nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a diverse set of record labels, including New World Records, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music.

Free Streaming Audio (available to all)
These sites are believed to offer content legally.

Art of the States
Audio and accompanying essays for a wide range of music from across the United States, focusing on new, unusual and lesser-known repertoire

CBC Radio 2: Concerts on Demand
Over 800 free concerts, in all genres, from the Canadian Broadcasting Company

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
A digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the University of California at Santa Barbara

Eduard Alekseyev Fieldwork Collection of the Musical Culture of Yakutia, 1969-1990
Original field recordings by ethnomusicologist Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev, made in various regions in Russia, primarily representing the musical culture of the Yakut (Sakha) peoples, as well of Crimean Tartar and Ukrainian peoples

National Jukebox
Historical recordings from the Library of Congress

New Music at Carnegie Hall
Listen to new compositions that have been commissioned by Carnegie Hall

Radio 365
Free Internet radio offering music in many genres

RadioIO
Free streaming music in many genres

radiOM
Concerts and interviews from the archives of Other Minds, a global new music community

Sound of the World
From BBC World Service. Charlie Gillett hosts a program of contemporary and classic tracks from around the world.

Sounds of the Met
Over 200 historical recordings of singers who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera

Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
The Arhoolie Foundation's digital collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American recordings, issued on 78 rpm phonograph discs during the first half of the twentieth century.

Musical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

These links available on site only to Conservatory students and faculty:

Oxford Music Online
Covers all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms.
(Includes: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and New Grove Dictionary of Opera.)

General Dictionaries and Reference Works

Merriam-Webster Dictionary – word definitions, plus Spanish-English dictionary, thesaurus and more.
Thesaurus – find synonyms and antonyms
Bartleby.com – dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations and more

Music Business

Musical America
Includes searchable directories for performers, artist managers, companies, festivals, competitions and schedules.

Abstracts and Indexes

These links available on site only to Conservatory students and faculty:

Music Index
Indexes more than 640 international music periodicals. Includes musicological data, book reviews, record reviews, first performances and obituaries.

Index to Printed Music
Use IPM for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present. Content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments, and results can be limited by genre and/or language.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. All document types and media such as books, conference proceedings (going back to 1835), journal articles, dissertations as well as internet resources, sound recordings and motion pictures are included. RILM also features bilingual abstracts and all non-Roman scripts.