Quick Search the Catalog for Recorded Music
| MCPL also offers you an astounding variety of streaming music from the following collections. You will need your Montgomery County Public Library card number and PIN to use these resources if you are not in one of our buildings. |
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American Song - Listen to music from America's past. Songs by and about American Indians, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests. As of June, 2009, fully incorporates the African American Music collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime and more. |
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Classical Music Library - Listen to over 50,000 tracks of streaming classical music, ranging from Gregorian chant to contemporary chamber pieces. Offers one piece for free download several times a month. |
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Classical Scores Library - Scores for instrumental and vocal works of all types of classical music. Listen along when pieces are also in the Classical Music Library. |
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Contemporary World Music - Listen to music from around the world in genres such as reggae, worldbeat, swing and jazz, plus traditional music including Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, and zydeco. |
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Jazz Music Library - Listen to thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. |
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Smithsonian Global Sound - Listen to traditional and world music, plus nature sounds, dramatic performances, poetry, political speeches, and war and protest songs. |
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Music Online- Search across all of our streaming music resources at once, with the exception of Smithsonian Global Sound, which is to be added in Fall 2009. Music Online includes all the contents of American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library. |
Technical Requirements: Macromedia Flash Player version 7 and higher, and Microsoft Windows Media Player version 10 and higher are required to listen to streaming music. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view the scores.
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