Naxos Music Library is the world's leading producer of classical music. Naxos produces more new recordings than any other label or corporate entity. The library offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogs as well as Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music, and educational products that feature the biggest performers in the history of classical music. Naxos is in the process of adding thousands of titles of other independent labels including BIS, Fantasy, Celestial Harmonies, Analekta, ARC, Artek, First Edition, CBC, Morrison Music Trust and Prophone to the library. Naxos will continue to include leading independent labels from around the world. Naxos also offers Naxos Sheet Music, Jazz and Spoken Word databases.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the world’s largest online music listening service for libraries and universities, given an A+ rating from Library Journal's e-Reviews. Streamed directly from our servers at near-CD quality, our growing collection of over 264,000 tracks (with updates benchmarked against the Music Library Association’s ‘A Basic Music Library’ guidelines) supplements an existing music collection and includes additional features especially designed for librarians and educators. These including static URLs for tracks, allowing instructors to link to specific pieces, full liner notes and comprehensive biographical materials, and usage statistics available in real time online.
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Naxos Music Library Sheet Music
Enable your users to download and print their own copies of sheet music from this catalog of over 40,000 editions of classical music and jazz from some of the world’s most famous publishers, artists, and composers. In cooperation with FreeHandMusic.com, the Internet’s largest sheet music catalog, highlights include:
- The whole range of classical masters, from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Strauss, Albéniz and Debussy.
- Famous classical and jazz artists, including Chick Corea, James Galway, Steven Isserlis, Joe Lovano, David Liebman, NH0P, and many others.
- Thousands of original sheet music editions from Universal Edition, Josef Weinberger, Chanterelle, Pizzicato, Zen-On, Oxford University Press and many others. Nobody else offers this much original material!
- Exclusive archive collections such as those from Gotenborg Library and Uppsala University Library.
Copyright holders—the publishers, artists, composers and editors—are paid a royalty for every piece of music downloaded and printed. The digital distribution of sheet music therefore rewards the musicians for their work and reduces the damage done by the frequent photocopying of sheet music.
By downloading sheet music for your library patrons, you are saving all the costs involved in purchasing printed editions—no shipping, no administration, no waiting, no checking in and out, no damages, no lost editions. In addition it is not necessary for the library patron to return his/her music, as you can print a new copy for every interested patron.
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Naxos Spoken Word Library
Comprises one of the most comprehensive collections of classic audiobook material available online. Produces around 30 new titles a year and concentrates largely on literary classics and educational themes and allows access to almost 1,500 CDs of spoken word (almost 1,300 works). Also included are Naxos Educational products, which focus closely on the background to operas and the lives of great composers. All the recordings are illustrated with music from the unrivaled Naxos catalog.
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