Wednesday, March 12, 2008

New Online Music Resources

Bring more than 160,000 streaming music tracks to your desktop, the library offers four online music resources from our Articles and Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm

We now offer the Classical Music Library with selections ranging from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers—including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.

The American Song database with the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests.

The Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical forms. The collection also encompasses animal sounds, calypso; classical violin instruction; drama; poetry; sounds of the deep ocean and great performances of traditional music from virtually everywhere in the world.

African American Song includes jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.

Include a little music in your day by visiting our Articles and Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm

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