Classical music databases now available through UD Library

4:08 p.m., March 4, 2005--Two new classical music databases are now available through the UD Library. The Classical Music Library and the Naxos Music Library databases will be available online at all times to students, faculty and staff from classrooms, offices and residence halls.

The new databases will link to important online reference works, such as Grove Music Online and Biography Reference Bank and Classical Music Library Further, to which the library subscribes. Users can listen and learn via computer while simultaneously searching and browsing the reference database.

Access to the databases was made possible by the Henry Newton Lee Jr. Family Library Music Fund.

“It’s going to be a marvelous addition to the University,” Henry Newton Lee Jr., professor emeritus of music and Newark resident, said. “It makes musical literature very accessible to anybody who wants to hear it but doesn’t have the recordings. It is going to be a tremendous advantage to the cultural and musical life of the University, which should take advantage of it.”

Classical Music Library, produced by Alexander Street Press, is a fully searchable comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet.

The database contains a large assortment of music, from medieval to contemporary, choral works, symphonies, operas and the avant-garde. The collection includes multiple versions of works, which can be used for comparative listening.

Naxos is the world’s leading producer of classical music. The Naxos Music Library database provides the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogs, as well as jazz and world music, educational products and a growing range of historical recordings featuring the best-known performers in the history of classical music.

Naxos is in the process of adding the catalogs of other independent labels, including Celestial Harmonies, Analekta, BIS, ARC, First Edition and CBC.

The Classical Music Library can be accessed via [www2.lib.udel.edu/database/cml.html]. The Naxos Music Library can be accessed via [www2.lib.udel.edu/database/nml.html].

“I know students, faculty and staff will gain much pleasure from these databases,” Susan Brynteson, May Morris Director of Libraries, said.

Article by Martin Mbugua

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