Music Online lets you cross-search audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content. It’s the broadest and most comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. Only Music Online will deliver audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images through a single interface. Music Online brings something entirely new to digital reference!

Rich controlled vocabularies and Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ give you powerful search capabilities. Everything in Music Online is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, and ensembles. You can combine keyword and fielded searches to ask creative and highly targeted questions.

The hundreds of thousands of cross-searchable items in Music Online include more than 100,000 tracks; 285 hours of dance and opera video; more than 13,000 scores; and more than 45,000 pages of reference content from dozens of different record and video labels, print and score publishers, including EMI, Boosey & Hawkes, Garland, Rounder Records, Rebel, Arhoolie Records, Verve, Arabesque Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Opus Arte. The continuously growing collection also makes cross-searchable thousands of liner notes, biographies, and images. By September, all of the content in both African American Music and Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries will also be cross-searchable though the new interface.

Robust playlist functionality and an easy-to-use clip-making tool allow you to build playlists, incorporating content from anywhere in Music Online—and from anywhere on the Web. You can annotate your playlist, keep it at a permanent URL for private use, or share it. Your playlist can include multiple recordings of a single work, the score, a performance video, an essay published somewhere on the Web, and a biography and photograph of the composer. Music Online also comes with built-in playlists that match leading music textbooks or ready-made playlists for university level courses.

Subscribe to the entire Music Online suite or to specific subsets (get all listening collections, for example, with prices for unlimited SU access starting at around $3,000 for small libraries). Contact sales@alexanderstreet.com for more information.
 

For the best value and functionality, including the content from all our individual collections, subscribe to all of Music Online.

The individual collections are also available as standalone services.