Recommended Online Recording Sources
- Naxos Music LibraryThe Naxos database contains over 2 million tracks, with music of many different genres, from Classical Baroque to Blues. You can search by title, genre or time period, artists, composers, labels, and playlists.
- Hymnary.orgHymnary.org is an online hymn and worship music database for worship leaders, hymnologists, and amateur hymn lovers. At Hymnary.org you can search or browse hymns by title, tune, meter, key, scripture reference, and more.
- The Cyber HymnalThis site has over 7,700 Christian hymns and Gospel Songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and more.
- WOW Christian Worship - YouTube channelFrom the well-known WOW series, listen to the hit Contemporary and Gospel Christian music of recent years on their Youtube channel
Special Resource: Audio Recordings and Sheet Music in the Media Collection
Hekman's Media Collection is on the fourth floor of the library, and houses all of its movies, music, audiobooks and other multimedia items. Here, you can find and check out CDs, DVDs, and even LP records with music of many different genres, including worship music!
- Music CDs are stored in grey file cabinets
- Most popular - Cabinet #4 (classical and popular music), Cabinet #5 (world and ethnic American music), and Cabinet #6 (worship music)
- Choir sheet music kept in Choral Music Collection shelves
- Organized in blue binders by voice arrangement (SA, SATB, etc.)
- Search this collection using the Calvin Choral Music Database here
- You can make copies of any public domain music here - talk to a librarian for more help