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Music Subscription Databases

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You can log into almost all of the databases listed below from outside the library using your library barcode number. If you don't have a library card, you may register for one online. Please make sure that you are accessing our site via this URL: http://www.carnegielibrary.org/.

Those databases specified with "No Remote Access" must be used from a computer inside the library. "Remote Access (CLP Card)" databases are only accessible with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) library card. Click here if not a CLP cardholder.

Music History and Indexes

Index to Printed Music   Main Library Access Only   NO Remote Access
Citations for individual pieces of classical music printed in standard scholarly editions.

 

The Jazz Discography   Library Access Only   NO Remote Access
Everything you need to know about virtually any jazz record ever released. The Jazz Discography gives you accurate, detailed information on over 100 years of recorded jazz in all genres.

 

JSTOR   Library Access Only   NO Remote Access
Full-text archives of many core scholarly journals, particularly in the humanities, social sciences & music.

 

Music in Print   Main Library Access Only   NO Remote Access
lists currently available printed music.

 

Music Index   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Citations to articles appearing in music periodicals back to 1979.

 

Oxford Music Online   Library Access   Remote Access
Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online (includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Dictionary of Jazz and Grove Dictionary of Opera) and The Oxford Companion to Music.

 

Listen Online: Streaming Music

African American Song   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Historical Recordings of African American music

 

American Song   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
This site contains over 12,000 tracks (with more added regularly) that illustrate our country’s history through music. Songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children and many others are included. Of particular interest is the index by historical event.

 

Classical Music Online   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Listen to classical music online

 

Contemporary World Music   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
A new addition, this site aims to be one that “delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent.” Currently this constantly growing site features over 8,000 tracks of music from around the world.

 

DRAM Online
Digital Recordings of American Music
  Library Access   NO Remote Access
A scholarly resource of recordings, including liner notes and essays, from New World Records, Composers Recordings (CRI) and other labels such as Albany, Frog Peak, Mode, and XI.

 

Naxos Music Library   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Listen to classical, jazz and world music online.
You must use the log out button when exiting this database, or future log-ins may be unsuccessful.


 

Naxos Music Library Jazz   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Listen to streaming audio of jazz music.
You must use the log out button when exiting this database, or future log-ins may be unsuccessful.


 

Smithsonian Global Sound   Library Access   Remote access
(CLP Card)
Listen to world, folk and traditional music online.

 

Music Scores Online

Naxos Music Library Sheet Music   LIMITED*
Library Access
  Remote Access
(CLP Card)
View and download classical and jazz sheet music. This database requires the Freehand Solero Viewer plugin to download and view sheet music.
You must use the log out button when exiting this database, or future log-ins may be unsuccessful.
* ONLY accessible in Music, Film and Audio, Main Library, Oakland