Music lovers should love libraries because they can borrow music from libraries, usually for free. Music lovers should also love WorldCat. Did you know there are over 3 million musical recordings in WorldCat? Also, WorldCat has over 3.5 million scores (sheet music). The "authors" of this music include both composers and performers. Not surprisingly, classical composers like Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven are at the top of the author lists. But, if the classics are not your favorites, there are dozens of categories of music composition that WorldCat catalogers have assigned to recordings and scores.
Some of the more contemporary types of music include: Popular, Rock, Jazz, Folk, Songs, Country, Blues, and Motion picture music. The authors on the left of the results reads like a "Who's Who" of the styles. With WorldCat, these can be refined to your preferences by format (e.g., score or CD audio), audience (juvenile or non-juvenile), or language.
Combinations of music types allow for searches for:
If you're interested in what's new for a variety of types of music, it is possible to find any of several types and sort them by date (newest first):