The Vassar College Music Library has over 30,000 audio recordings and hundreds of visual recordings, which may be searched through the Vassar's Library Search Online Catalog and the Music Library Card Catalog.
Streamed recordings: All streaming audio databases
Note: When searching for an individual recording of a musical work, a search in Vassar's Library Search Online Catalog can be a good place to begin. Depending on the "content type" you select, "audio recordings", "streaming audio", and/or "video recording", results from many of the databases listed below will display. To do an exhaustive search go to the databases directly.
This scholastic resource focuses on hard-to-find yet culturally and academically important music from folk to opera, Native American music to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond.
Complete original liner notes.
Music Online is an online music resource that cross-searches all Alexander Street Press music databases:
American Song
Classical Music Library
Contemporary World Music
Jazz Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound.
Search all parts with one search. Most have no liner notes.
Streaming audio access to CD-length recordings. Principally classical music, with jazz, world, and pop/rock also represented. Includes program notes, cover artwork, tracklist, instrumentation and publisher information, libretti and synopses of more than 700 operas, and biographical information on composers and artists.
App for iPhone and Android phones includes performance details, but not liner notes.
