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Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Includes all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Contains full, study, piano, and vocal scores.

Subject Matter Timeframe: Middle Ages -21st Century
Dates of Coverage: 500 A.D. - Current

Classical Music Library
Contains tens of thousands of licensed recordings that are cross-referenced with program notes, composer biographies, glossary terms, and historical context.

Subject Matter Timeframe: Medieval - Modern
Dates of Coverage: 500 A.D. - Current
Jazz Music Library
Streaming jazz music, searchable by song or album title, instrument, performers, and genres. Covers major and secondary artists, ensembles, labels, and genres, ranging from historical recordings to contemporary.

Dates of Coverage: 20th and 21st Centuries
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
An encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes over 35,000 tracks of world music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.

Dates of Coverage: Varies
Naxos Music Library
Offers streaming access to more than a million tracks of world, folk and pop/rock music with a heavy emphasis on classical music. Download the app from the website to play music on your phone.

Dates of Coverage: Circa 1150 - Current (updated monthly)

Oxford Music Online
Includes articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works. Includes Grove Music Online.

Dates of Coverage: Various

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
General information search tool for World Music researchers.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
A bibliography of music literature providing international coverage of Western and Eastern classical, pop, folk, and jazz music, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music.

Dates of Coverage: 1967 - Current