Resources

Audio Streaming
Naxos Music Library
Thousands of audio tracks! Includes classical music as well as jazz, new age, educational.

DRAM (Recorded Anthology of American Music)
Nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a diverse set of record labels, including New World Records, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music.

Video Streaming
Films on Demand 

This link available on site only to Conservatory students and faculty

Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Abstracts and Indexes
These links available on site only to Conservatory students and faculty: 

Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 6066 titles!
*Only available within SFCM
 
Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works.
 
Covers all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms.
(Includes: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and New Grove Dictionary of Opera.)
 
These databases available on site only to Conservatory students and faculty:
 
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music serving the global music research community. Today RILM has over 600,000 records in 214 languages from 151 countries.
 
Published by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicale - RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources) is an international, non-profit joint venture, which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
 

General Dictionaries and Reference
These links are free to use by public:

Merriam-Webster Dictionary – word definitions, plus Spanish-English dictionary, thesaurus and more.
Thesaurus – find synonyms and antonyms
Bartleby.com – dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations and more 
Includes searchable directories for performers, artist managers, companies, festivals, competitions and schedules.