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Women in Music

This guide is designed to help researchers identify resources useful for researching women in music.

Streaming Audio and Video

Music & Performing Arts
(extensive audio and video for classical, opera, jazz, world, & American music)
Naxos Music Library
(classical music)
App version available on your mobile device. Contact the Music Library musiclib@utk.edu for our institutional activation code.

CDs

CDs by specific composers/performers can be found by doing an advanced search in the online catalog with the format limited to compact disc.

Historical Anthology of Music by Women
Call Number: CD M2.H5 1997
Great Women of Gospel
Call Number: CD M2198.G748 1996
Deferred Voices: Organ Music by Women
Call Number: CD M7.R39 1993
Ska Down Her Way: Women of Ska v.2
Call Number: CD6566
Women of Note
Call Number: CD7405
Blues Masters. The Essential Blues Collection, Volume II, Classic Blues Women
Call Number: CD7508
Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women
Call Number: CD7524
Global Divas: Voices From Women of the World
Call Number: CD7930
Chamber Works by Women Composers
Call Number: CD8278
Songs of the Suffragettes
Call Number: CD8455
R*E*S*P*E*C*T: A Century of Women in Music
Call Number: CD8631 v.1-5
Music by Women: A Celebration
Call Number: CD9599
Sacred Women: Women as Composers and Performers of Medieval Chant
Call Number: CD9794
Ladies Sing the Blues
Call Number: CD10157
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women
Call Number: CD11598

DVD and VHS Videos

Videos by specific composers/performers can be found by doing an advanced search in the online catalog with the format limited to video recording.

Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
Call Number: DVD ML390.Y68 1999