Electronic Resources

...for MUN users only:

Music Online: Classical Music Library
-Stream musical sound recording and MIDI files, and browse program notes, reference texts, and images
-Includes vocal and instrumental works from the middle ages to the present.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
-Contains classical music scores, manuscripts, and unpublished material.
Naxos Music Library
-Streamover 75,000 classical music tracks a long with historical recordings, jazz, world, folk, and chinese muisc
-Read notes on the music while you listen, as well as composer/artist biographical information!
Smithsonial Global Sound for Libraries
-"Virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions"
Oxford Muisc Online
-Provides access to: The Oxford dictionary of muisc; Grove Music Online; The Oxford Companion to Muisc; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music; New Grove dictionary of muisc and musicians; New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Opera in Video
-Video performances from the Baroque to the 20th century.
Dance in Video
-Video performances in such genres as Jazz, Ballet, Tap, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
IMSLP -- International Music Score Library Project
-contains "all public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music to the world without charge"

MIDI and MP3 files

Classical Archives:
-provides free access to more than 18,000 classical music files in MIDI and MP3 format including works by more than 1,200 composers. Site maintained by Pierre R. Schwob.
Discover Classics:
-features free, downloadable MP3 files of complete movements/works from nearly every genre of classical music. Includes biographical information on both the performers (all of whom are Russian) and composers whose works appear on this site.

Classical music radio stations on the Internet

CBC Radio 2
Classical Radio Live Online:
-find another classical music radio station from this collection of sites maintained by Peter Ribbens. All stations broadcast live on the Web in RealAudio or MP3.

Music Resource Centre,
M. O. Morgan Music Building,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7
Tel: (709) 864-4471 Fax: (709) 864-2153

June 1, 2009