Circulating Collection

• Compact discs covering all areas of recorded music
• Feature films on DVD and some rare films on VHS
• Non-fiction DVDs (and VHS)
• Music scores and songbooks
• Popular music on CD
• Instructional CD ROMs
• Spoken-word books on CD, both fiction and non-fiction

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MegaList of sites in alphabetical order. All Inclusive! -- Digital Librarian: listing artists, groups, genres: country, jazz, folk, rock...etc.  Many of the links below were selected from this site.

AllMusic is a search engine for all forms of music. You can search by Artist/Group, Album, Song, or Classical Work. Includes numerous other music industry-related links.

Lyrics - Lyrics World,  Lyrics Search Engine, & Lyrics Connection

AND...Separated by genre:

Classical:

• Aaron Copland Collection - Library of Congress American Memory site includes approximately one thousand items selected from Copland's correspondence, writings, photographs, and complete sets of music sketches
• American Music Center - Information and support center for contemporary classical music. 
• Bach Central Station: a directory of J.S. Bach Resources on the Internet
• Classical Archives - Pierre R. Schwob offers thousands of classical music files in midi format.
• Classical Net - In this rich resource L.D. Lampson provides reviews of more than 1650 CDs.
• DW3 Classical Music Resources - Comprehensive guide to classical music Internet resources.

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Rock & Roll: 

• Beatles - Official site
• Billboard Online
• Elvis Home Page & Graceland
• GRAMMY Awards.
• Progressive Rock Web Site
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Cleveland, Ohio museum provides biographies, discographies, bibliographies and timelines
• Rolling Stone Network: The Magazine -- Artists A to Z provides biographies, discographies, videos, and links for hundreds of artists

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Jazz:

• All About Jazz: A Magazine - Interviews, biographies, articles, reviews, genres, with RealAudio features.
• Blue Note - New York City jazz club, part of the InterJazz site.
• Chicago Jazz Archive - University of Chicago
• Duke Ellington Collection
• Jazz Online

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Folk:

• American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress
• Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - Searchable index containing lyrics for over 6500 songs.
• FolkWeb
• RootsWorld - Online magazine of world roots and folk

Country:

• Country!
• Country Music Awards
• Country Weekly Online
• Cowpie Song Corral  - Lyrics (listed by artist) and search engine for country music.
• Western Swing Music Homepage

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Blues:

• The Blue Highway  Tributes to the blues greats, essays, and more.
• Chicago Blues Archives - Chicago Public Library
• Jelly Music Magazine

Choral:

• Choral Public Domain Library - With over 2800 scores, many with sound files.
• ChoralNet: the Internet Center for Choral Music
• Choral Music, the site offers over 1,000 links to choral music-related sites.

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Rap/Hip Hop:

• Rap Music Online - Ultimate Hip Hop action.

Opera:

• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Metropolitan Opera - New York
• OPERA America - News, schedules, searchable databases
• Opera Magazine
• Operabase - Database of 500 opera houses and festivals worldwide.
• OperaGlass - Rick Bogart provides "detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers."

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Gospel:

• American Gospel Music Directory - Features descriptions, schedules, and sound clips of various local and national Gospel music groups
• The Gospel Music Association
• Gospel Music Hall of Fame

Lyric Opera of Chicago season is covered by a special display of CDs, scores, videos (where available) and the Lyric's own commentaries on audio cassette from each opera being performed.  All non-video material may be reserved by Lisle Library patrons, either in person or by telephone at 719.1675, ext 2006.

Details about performances are available at the  Lyric Opera of Chicago Website

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Audio Book Cassettes and CD's:

• AudioFile Magazine

• Movie Reviews
• Internet Movie Database

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• Museum of Broadcast Communications - Chicago Cultural Center
• National Public Radio
• Original Old Time Radio 

For More Information, contact Tatiana Weinstein,  Director of Adult Services (630) 971-1675 Ext. 1507

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