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Naxos Music Library Guide
Hot to use the Naxos Music Library database
Searching Naxos Music Library
You can locate alternate recordings of the music required for your class in the Naxos Music Library.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 144,000 CD-length recordings equivalent to 2.2 million tracks uploaded, with an additional 1,150 CD-length recordings added every month. Covers Classical, Jazz, World, Classic Rock, and Nostalgia music. Also has more than 40,000 composer and artist biographies, music notes, cover artwork, tracklist, instrumentation, publisher information, and a glossary.
Searching in Naxos
- Search the Title of the piece; Naxos may not have the exact same recording group. These classical pieces have been recorded by many different groups
- Example: Mass for Christmas Day
- The search box is at the top right of the screen
Music for Chapters 1-3
Below are a few pieces from the selections for Chapters 1-3 to get you started.
- Epitaphe de Seikilos This link opens in a new windowANCIENT GREEK MUSIC (Madrid Atrium Musicae, Paniagua)
- Sequentia: Dies irae This link opens in a new windowattributed to Thomas of Celano (ca. 1190–ca. 1260): sequence Dies irae
Schola Cantorum of Amsterdam, Gregorian Chant, Vol. II (Sony Essential Classics, 1973) - Graduel: Viderunt omnes; Mass for Christmas Day [12th Century] This link opens in a new windowEnsemble Organum
Pérès, Marcel - Conductor
