Music Online: Freegal, Naxos and Alexander Street

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Jul 10

Explore a world of music online with our streaming services: Freegal, Naxos Music Library, Naxos Jazz Library and Alexander Street Music Online!

With Freegal you have access to a collection of over 15 million songs, music videos and audiobooks from more than 40,000 music labels worldwide including Sony Music, Epic, RCA, and Columbia. Streaming is available 24/7, and you can also download up to three songs per week to keep.

Among great song selections, Freegal has curated playlists.

4th of July Playlist

Not the ra-ra go America playlist I thought it was going to be, and instead features songs that are critical of the United States such as Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”, David Bowie’s “Young Americans”, Rage Against the Machine’s cover of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” America, good and bad, is simply the theme that all these songs hang on.

District of Columbia Public Library: Girl Power: Celebrating Women's History Month

21 songs from iconic female musicians of several different genres featuring TLC, Beyonce, Lizzo, Haim, and Christina Aguilera.

Sony Presents: Summer Fever

21 soul, R&B, and disco summer hits featuring Billy Ocean, Lovin’ Spoonful, Boney M.,Hot Chocolate and Barry White. A perfect playlist to dance in your car to.

Studious Nature: A Study Playlist

36 incredibly calming classical tunes that act as perfect background noise for times when you require the most attention. Features Wide Eyed’s “Arc”, Eydis Evensen’s “Deep Under”, and Yo-Yo Ma’s “Ave Maria” as well as instrumentals from Alma Deutscher, Emile Mosseri, and Arcadi Volodos. Truth be told, I wrote this entire post listening to this playlist.

Stream Classical, Jazz, World, Classic Rock, Nostalgia music from over 640 labels such as ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, EMI Classics, Erato, Finlandia, Hänssler Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, Naïve, Naxos, Nonesuch, Nimbus, Ondine, RCA Records, Sony Classical, Teldec, Virgin Classics and Warner Classics.

Aside from the staggering classical music selection streaming on Naxos Music Library, Naxos Musicology International offers music scholarship through essays, opinion pieces and “encounters” which range from interviews to stream-of-conscious musical prose. Naxos Musicology International seeks to advance and extend musicological work on a range of repertoires, genres, creative and scholarly approaches.

Make sure to check out:

ESSAYS

Is it Proper to Eat or Drink while Listening to Classical Music? by Pierpaolo Polzonetti

ENCOUNTERS

Easy Speech of the Land by John Supko

OPINIONS

COVID-19: Have We Been Here Before? by Kate Guthrie

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 162,315 CDs with more than 2,532,747 tracks of both standard and rare repertoires. Over 600 new titles are being added to the library each month.

The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs plus the complete catalogs or selected titles from over 950 record labels, with more labels joining every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.

Some of the highlights from Naxos Jazz Library:

Julie Andrews & Carol Burnett: CBS Television Specials

Nonesuch Records, including the Magnetic Fields, the Black Keys, David Byrne, Rhiannon Giddens, Wanda Jackson, Connor Oberst and more.

Alexander Street Music Online publishes more than 80 collections totaling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. They’re concentrating on building the best collections they can across the curriculum—in literature; music; women's history; black history; psychological counseling and therapy; social and cultural history; drama, medical, theatre, film, and the performing arts; religion; sociology; and other emerging areas.

Check out their Browse Historical Events filter that allows you to find songs correlating to events in history. Look what I found when I searched under the heading: Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919: