Music

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Contents 1 Select Book Titles 2 Music on CD 2.1 Explore Subgenres 2.2 Search Classical Music 2.3 Search by Instrument 2.4 Music by Decade 3 Books about Music and Musicians 4 Magazines and Journals at the Library 5 Community Resources 6 Web Resources

Select Book Titles

Music on CD

• All music CDs are cataloged within one of thirteen genres (see below).
• Music CDs are shelved alphabetically by genre.
• Each genre is further alphabetized by band name or artist's/composer's last name (World Music is arranged first by country of origin, then by artist).

Classical Country Folk Holiday

Jazz Miscellaneous Opera

Popular R&B Rap

Religious Soundtrack World

Explore Subgenres

Alternative Country Alternative Rock Ambient Ballads Banda Big Band Bluegrass Blues Broadway Casts

Contemporary Christian Cumbia Dance Disco Duets Electronic Fado Funk Garage Rock

Gospel Great American Songbook Grunge Gypsy Hip Hop House Islamic Klezmer Live Recordings

Local Music Lullabies Meditation Merengue Metal Motown Musicals Native American New Age Noise Music

Protest Songs Psychedelic Punk Ragas Reggae Remixes Rockabilly Salsa Ska

Smithsonian Folkways Soul Spirituals Tango Techno Tejano Work Songs Yoga Zydeco

Search Classical Music

Aleatory Music Arias Ballets Baroque Cantatas

Chamber Chansons Choruses Concertos

Decca Records Deutsche Grammophon Grand Rapids Symphony Hyperion Records

Madrigals Marches Masses Minimal Music

Motets Naxos Records Orchestral Sacred

Sonatas Suites Super Audio CDs Symphonies

Search by Instrument

Accordion Bagpipes Brass Clarinet Dulcimer Fiddle

Flute Guitar Harp Harpsichord Lute Mandolin

Oboe Organ Percussion Piano Saxophone Sitar

Synthesizer Theremin Trombone Trumpet Violin Vocal

Music by Decade

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Books about Music and Musicians

Acoustics Ballet Broadway Musicals Careers in Music Computer Sound Processing

Digital Music Guitar Tabs Music Appreciation Music Encyclopedias Music History

Musician Biographies Percussion Instruments Philosophy of Music Piano Recording Industry

Songbooks and Scores Songwriting and Publishing String Instruments Wind Instruments Voice Instruction

Magazines and Journals at the Library

• Music Magazines at the Main Library

• The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.

• Search our catalog for specific titles.

• Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan eLibrary) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database.

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Community Resources

The Bach Chorale of Grand Rapids Blue Lake Public Radio Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Ballet Company Grand Rapids Federation of Musicians Grand Rapids Sweet Adelines Grand Rapids Symphonic Band Grand Rapids Symphony Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Choruses Grand Rapids Women's Chorus Grand River Folk Arts Society

Great Lakes Barber Shop Chorus Local Spins The North American Choral Company Opera Grand Rapids St. Cecilia Music Society Schubert Male Chorus of Grand Rapids West Mich Music Hysterical Society West Michigan Gay Men's Chorus West Michigan Jazz Society WYCE 88.1FM

Web Resources

• A to Z Lyrics Universe - Comprehensive source of lyrics to popular songs and artists.
• ChoralWiki - One of the world's largest free sheet music sites.
• Last.fm - A UK-based internet radio and music community website.
• Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection - Collected by Johns Hopkins University, this collection contains over 29,000 pieces of music, primarily American.
• Metacritic - A website that collates reviews of music albums, as well as other media.
• mixcloud - Listen to the best radio presenters & DJs in the world.
• Myspace Music - A social networking site that hosts pages of virtually every band.
• Operabase - This site features information on over 500 opera houses and festivals.
• Opus 1 Classical - This site provides information on classical music concerts, festivals and opera world wide.
• Pandora - An automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project.
• Pitchfork Media - A Chicago-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews.
• Playlist - A social music community website where you can create a playlist from an extensive database to share with other users.
• PureVolume - A website where bands and musical artists can promote and advertise themselves.
• SoundCloud - A social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere.
• In case you're wondering, the written music at the top of the page comes from Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988).