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Memorial Hall Library

MHL now offers Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library services

Memorial Hall Library is pleased to offer unlimited access to three sources of streaming music: Naxos Music Library, Naxos Music Library Jazz, and Naxos Music Library World.

Naxos Music Library (NML) includes 2.5+ million tracks (165,000+ albums) to listen to. Its library is comprised of mostly classical music, but it also includes hundreds of film soundtracks and cast recordings of musicals. Most recordings come with a booklet containing program notes. Naxos Music Library also comes with thousands of composer and artist biographies, a pronunciation guide for musical terms, composer and artist names, opera libretti and synopses, professional analyses of major classical works, and an interactive dictionary with music examples.

Naxos Music Library Jazz has over 20,000 jazz albums by more than 32,000 artists. Its library includes the catalogues of Warner Jazz, Fantasy, and 500+ other record labels.

Naxos Music Library World offers music from 150+ countries, from historical performances to contemporary world music. Its library includes the complete Arc and Smithsonian Folkways catalogues.

New albums are added to all three services every week, and each service lets you create and customize shareable playlists. For each service there is also an app you can use to stream or download for offline listening music to a smartphone or tablet.

The Naxos Music Library services are available to all library visitors and to remote users with an Andover library card. Happy listening!

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