Stanford subscribes to:
American Song
Classical Music Library
Contemporary World Music
Database of Recorded American Music
Jazz Music Library
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Naxos Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound
Off-campus access instructions
American Song
Tracks: 58,000+
Scope: American music with historical emphasis, including politics, civil rights, prohibition, war. Includes content from African American Song.
Search by: album, genre, instrument, person, historical event.
Labels include: Rounder, McNeil, Native Ground, Smithsonian Folkways, Document.
Extras: playlists, updates via rss feed.
Tracks: 56,000+
Scope: Western classical music of all periods and repertoires. Territory restrictions block access to some recordings in the US.
Search by: title, genre, instrument, period, opus, key, composer, conductor, soloist, ensemble, label.
Labels include: Arabesque, Artemis Classics/Vanguard, ASV, Bridge, EMI Classics, Hänssler Classics, Hyperion, Lyrichord, Nimbus, and Vox (34 labels total).
Extras: weekly free download, themed play lists, biographies, still images, glossary.
Tracks: 25,000+
Scope: a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings. Focus on contemporary genres such as fusion and world beat.
Search by: genre, instrument, place and date of recording, cultural group.
Labels include: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, Lyrichord World Music, Navras Records, and INEDIT.
Extras: personal and themed playlists.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Tracks: 15,000+ compositions on 2000 CDs
Scope: American music including folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic.
Search by: composer, artist, ensemble, work or album title, instrument, composition/ release date.
Labels include: New World, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, Pogus, Deep listening, Mutable Music, Cold Blue, Artifact and Frog Peak Music.
Extras: complete liner notes.
Tracks: 60,000+
Scope: Jazz, blues.
Search by: performer, composer, title, genre, instrument, ensemble, recording date and place, label.
Labels include: Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Jazzology, Prestige, and more.
Extras: personal play lists, complete liner notes.
Tracks: 22,600+
Scope: jazz, blues, R&B.
Search by: artist, disc or song title, catalogue number.
Labels include: Naxos Jazz, Prophone, Proprius, and the 22 labels in the Fantasy Jazz family.
Extras: personal play lists.
Tracks: 545,000+
Scope: Western classical music of all periods and repertoires, jazz, world, folk, Chinese, New Age/“adult contemporary”.
Search by: disc or composition title, composer, arranger, lyricist, performer, ensemble, label, genre, instrument, period, country, year composed.
Labels include: Naxos, Analekta, BIS, Chandos, Gimell, Hungariton, Marco Polo, Opera Rara, Signum Classics, Wergo.
Extras: “moods and scenarios” search, opera libretti and synopses, glossary, musical terms dictionary, pronunciation guide, audiobook transcriptions.
Tracks: 35,000+
Scope: traditional, vernacular, folk, spoken word, sound environment, field recordings, children’s music.
Search by: country, culture group, genre, instrument, label/archive, language, year/decade.
Labels/archives include: Smithsonian Folkways, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, the International Library of African Music, and the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology.
Extras: radio shuffle streams, video clips, podcasts, artist biographies, play lists, lesson plans.
