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Holiday playlists

Get in the spirit of the season with holiday-themed playlists from Alexander Street. Our music editor, Liz Dutton, has created five new playlists to help you celebrate the holidays. If you subscribe to any of the streaming audio collections, there is a playlist available to you. And if you're a Music Online subscriber, you'll see all of these playlists featured on the homepage.

• Holiday Favorites in American Song - Featuring Hanukkah Dance performed by Woodie Guthrie, and Esta Navidad: Puerto Rican Christmas Song.
  
• Holiday Music from Around the World in Contemporary World Music - Enjoy holiday music from every corner of the world, including songs from Tahiti, Lebanon, Cameroon and Argentina.
  
• A Very Jazzy Christmas in Jazz Music Library - Listen to Christmas classics performed by Marian McPartland, Ella Fitzgerald, Irving Berlin, Charlie Byrd, and others.
  
• Music for Christmas in Classical Music Library - Classical Christmas classics.
  
• Holiday Music from Around the World in Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries - More worldy holiday tunes from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

And don't forget the free download from Classical Music Library is Greensleeves.

Happy Holidays from Alexander Street Press!

Free Download: Greensleeves (What Child is This?)

'Greensleeves' is a traditional English folk song with no known composer. References to the song can be traced back to 1580. In 1865, William Chatterton Dix set the tune of Greensleeves to the hymn 'What Child Is This?', and it has since become a popular Christmas hymn and carol.

This recording is performed by guitarist Michel Dintrich.

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Subscribers to Classical Music Library can also check out our featured playlist Music for Christmas, created by music editor Liz Dutton.

Enjoy the last free download of 2009.

Downloading available in Classical Music Library

If you're a Classical Music Library subscriber, you're probably familiar with the new interface by now. We've made slight adjustments over the past few months based on your feedback, adding useful functionality such as the "browse by composer" option. Now, libraries have the option to enable downloading from Classical Music Library.

Most tracks in Classical Music Library are available for purchase, however a few labels do not allow their recordings to be downloaded. The cost to download varies depending on the length of the track. The average cost per track is about $1.00. If your library has enabled downloading, you will see this download icon next to available tracks.

If you're a longtime subscriber to Classical Music Library and you had downloads enabled on the old platform, you'll notice significant improvements to the download process. All download transactions are now completed through Google Checkout. Purchasing tracks from Classical Music Library has never been easier.

And as always, all purchased downloads are stored permanently in the "My Downloads" folder in Classical Music Library. You can save the track to any location on your computer as many times as you want.

More information on downloading tracks from Classical Music Library can be found here.

If you are a librarian and would like to enable downloads for your institution, please email support@alexanderstreet.com.

Free Download: Tartini's Trumpet Concerto in D Major, D. 53

This recording is a trumpet arrangement of Giuseppe Tartini's Violin Concerto in E Major.

Tartini (1692-1770) wrote almost exclusively for string instruments, composing mostly violin sonatas and solo violin concerti.

This recording is performed by Bernard Soustrot, trumpet, and the Ensemble Instrumental de Grenoble; Marc Tardue, conductor.

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If your library subscribes to Classical Music Library you can browse all of Tartini's works here.