Hot jazz, cool classical...

or a poem on the go.

The library's popular Naxos Music Library, Jazz Library, and Spoken Word Library has apps so you can listen to streaming music on your internet device (e.g., smartphone, iPad, iPod, iPhone). Download the Naxos app from the iTunes store or Android Market, then:

1. On a computer, click on one of the Naxos services from the UHMC Libraryʻs Search Us page.
2. Navigate to the Playlist area and click “Sign Up” in the "Personal/Student" playlist account area.
3. Create a login on the sign up page. This login, consisting of your email address and a custom password, then becomes your login for the app.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Rolling Stones...

The library has a display on The Rolling Stones, the band, that along with The Beatles, brought the British rock to the USA in the 1960s. The display includes books, DVDs, and CDs from the libraryʻs extensive music and media collection.

Spotlight on Naxos streaming music

Need to listen to music for a class? writing a paper on music and need to listen to a piece? want to listen for pleasure? The UHMC Library subscribes to Naxos Music Library and Naxos Jazz Library.

• Complete catalogues or selected recordings of over 400 independent labels such as ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, CPO, EMI Classics, Erato, Haenssler Classic, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naïve, Naxos, Nimbus, Ondine, Teldec, Vanguard Classics, Virgin Classics and Warner Classics
• Classical, Jazz, World, Classic Rock, Nostalgia music
• Wide range of standard and specialist repertoire
• More than 81,090 CD-length recordings equivalent to 1,165,300 tracks uploaded, with addition of over 1,000 CD-length recordings every month
• Music notes, cover artwork, tracklist, instrumentation and publisher information
• Libretti and synopses of more than 700 operas
• More than 40,000 composer and artist biographies
• Pronunciation guide for composer and artist names
• Glossary, guide to musical terms and work analyses

New music database at the library!

Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 480 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals. The comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music makesMusic Index an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar.

Music and more

UHMC students and faculty now have access to three new streaming media serivices:

• Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 43,030 CDs with more than 616,300 tracks.
  On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month.
  
  The Naxos Music Library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others; and there is also jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. 
•  Naxos Spoken Word Library - literature and poetry ranging from medieval times to the twentieth century, and many newly written texts supplement an ever-expanding range of non-fiction. 
• Naxos Jazz Library - streaming jazz library.

The Naxos libraries can be accessed from any internet enabled device. An iPhone/iPod touch/iPad application is available from the iTunes Store.

The UHMC Library also provides access to Films on Demand.  This streaming media service gives UHMC students and faculty access to thousands of films online.