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The Basics

Recordings

The Greer Music Library contains a collection of several thousand recordings in various formats:   compact disc, vinyl, cassette.   In addition, the library subscribes to several online audio databases, such as African-American Song, Classical Music Library, Naxos Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound (for descriptions of these databases please visit the “Databases” list linked off of the library home page).  Researching a music question may require the use of sound recordings, and they can also be a valuable adjunct to work being done for non-music courses, such as dance, theater, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.

Possible Uses :

  • Become thoroughly familiar with a work assigned as a research or analysis topic
  • Compare different performance interpretations of the same piece
  • Become familiar with works mentioned in various sources as you conduct research on a topic
  • Enhance research in other disciplines (e.g., labor movement songs, Civil War songs, Civil Rights Movement songs, political songs, ethnic/world music, musical settings of language materials)

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