Popular Music Research
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- Music Index This link opens in a new windowBest for articles on popular music, music education, jazz, and performance; also includes some foreign-language material.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowBest for scholarly journals and articles, book chapters, dissertations, and foreign-language materials; best coverage for musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowAn archive of full-text scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, science, and business. There is typically a 2-5 year gap in coverage, so do not use for current events.
- Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowBest for inter-disciplinary studies in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion.
- Who SampledTrace who sampled which artists and songs
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies. Naxos Online Libraries YouTube Channel
- Medici.tv This link opens in a new windowAll year long you can enjoy free live concerts, operas, ballets with the greatest artists of our time on our audio-visual platform. These live events are then available for a limited time on our website. Since its opening in 2008, medici.tv has built an international reputation by broadcasting over 200 classical music events and by connecting a community of aficionados from over 180 countries.
Use the Library One Seach or the Library Catalog to find music available online or in CD.
On your results page, look to the left-hand menu
- Under Limit to, choose Rider University Libraries Catalog
- Under Source Types, choose Audio
In the library catalog, on the left-hand side, limit to "At the library" (for items not checked out) or Online.
Under Format: Music Recording
- Free Music ArchiveThe Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.