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We like music at Christchurch City Libraries, and currently have more than 15,000 CDs, tapes, LPs and videos and DVDs as well as thousands of music scores, music magazines and online music pages.
New Zealand Music Month
Christchurch City Libraries celebrates New Zealand Music Month by hosting a wide variety of local musicians in our libraries during May. 2008 events.
- Advert music
- some New Zealand ads and the music used on them.
- Best Music
- Your picks for 2007
- Find out about the top music of 2006
- If you like…
- some selections for classical music.
- Mozart turns 250
- Links and catalogue searches for this composer's birthday.
- The All-TIME 100 Albums
- Time magazine's list, November 13 2006.
New Zealand music
- APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time
- In 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association invited its members and an academy to vote on New Zealand's top songs of all time.
- Listener Lists 2004
- 10 Past Slices Of NZ Brilliance and 10 Present Acts Of Genuine NZ Class.
- Māori Music
- learn about traditional Māori music
- New Zealand's Musical Heritage
- Our heritage resources about music: a Christchurch music timeline, articles about early New Zealand music and more
- On demand
- Learn more about New Zealand music with audio and video on-demand.
- Top picks
- 10 favourite Kiwi songs of Nemesis from Ill Semantics.
Christchurch music
- Christchurch Music Timeline
- Explore the history of Christchurch music.
- Christchurch Band Posters from the 1980s
- We've digitised a small collection of posters like the one shown here.
- localeye's guide to Local Music resources
- Christchurch's Music Scene Today
- Christchurch Music Venues, past and present
- Information on The Gladstone Hotel, The Winter Garden and The Civic of Canterbury
- Classical Sparks
- Find out more about this popular annual concert in Christchurch and search the catalogue for the music it has featured.
- Profiles
- Find out more about some locally produced musicians such as Bic Runga. Read Richard James' thoughts on the changing face of the New Zealand music scene over the last 30 years and listen to some clips of his music.
Music Resources
- Grove Music
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 2nd edition.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - Music on CINCH
- Find musical groups and courses in Canterbury.
- Music Quest
- Get specialist help finding music (scores and recordings).
- Naxos Music Library
- Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 170,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries. - New Audio / Video titles
- New AV titles in our libraries for the previous two months (this section includes CDs, talking books, videos & DVDs).
- New Zealand Music Month
- Our events for New Zealand Music Month.
- Music collections at our libraries
Music Online
- Music links through Internet Gateway
- Our directory of selected web sites.
- Music @ the Pulse te Auaha
- Links to music sites for teens, interviews with bands and musicians and add your reviews.
- Music on localeye
- Information for Christchurch and Canterbury.
