Lewis & Clark Libraries: Music : Start Here

Ali Farka Touré, July 1995, photographed by Flickr user avantgardener4 and shared under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.

Using this Guide

Welcome to the Music Research Guide, designed to help Lewis & Clark students with research in musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance.

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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access Grove Music Online through Oxford Music Online to find authoritative and scholarly articles on composers, styles, musical forms, and more.
Contains searchable articles about all aspects of music. It is the 2nd edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music, the standard and largest comprehensive music encyclopedia. The print volumes are available in the reference area of Watzek Library. It also includes The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming music, mostly classical.
Includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues, with almost nine hundred labels represented in total. The library currently contains more than 2 million tracks. See separate Jazz and World databases for additional coverage.
Naxos Music Library: World This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library World offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music.
Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented, spanning 150 countries and 1,500 cultural groups. Also includes select recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.

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