Online Listening Reserves
Listening assignments for students enrolled in courses.
American Song and African American Song.
American Song now incorporates African American Song. It is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. Currently (July 2009) includes 53,1671 tracks.
Classical Music Library
Classical music from major labels.
DRAM
A scholarly resource of recordings, liner notes, and essays from New World Records, Composer's Recordings Inc., Albany, Çedille, and several other important lables stressing contemporary music.
Dance in Video
Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Currently (July 2009) includes 150 videos.
D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection
The D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection from the UCLA Ethnnomusicology Archive consists of approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, song, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes. The digital collection features the field tapes.
Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archives’s primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas. The first database in a series of databases is now available: the Digital Collection of East African Recordings which consists of over 2,000 discrete musical performances recorded by an East African ethnomusicologist, Centurio Balikoowa.
Naxos Music Library
Classical music from Naxos and other major labels.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Jazz from major lables.
Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520
An online repertorium of polyphonic Masses composed in Europe, 1440-1520. Synthesized voices. From Princeton University.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Folkways recordings of world music.
Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican American Music
Digitized from "largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence". Fifty seconds of any recording is available. For further access apply to the UCLA Digital Library.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Audio from the turn of the 20th century digitized from the earliest commercial sound recording format, cylinders. Popular music, early jazz and blues, opera and classical music. From University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Department of Special Collections.
Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
Provides online access to digital audio files of cylinders in the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University. Belfer’s cylinder collection includes over 22,000 cylinders, 12,000 of which are unique titles. The goal of this digitization project is to provide 6,000 audio files by 2010.
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