String Resources
Audio Databases
- Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Listen to recordings from dozens of classical music labels, including Arabesque, Bridge, EMI, Hanssler, Hyperion, and Newport Classic. Browse or search by composer, title, artist, label, genre, etc., and create your own playlists. Reference section includes composer biographies, a dictionary of terms, and other features. Apps for some mobile devices available!
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- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowExplore music from all regions and from every continent in this audio streaming database: reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Arab swing, African film, Bollywood, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, gagaku, and more.
- Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowListen to more than 60,000 tracks of all types of jazz by solo artists and ensembles from throughout jazz history to the present day. Make and save playlists for listening for classes or just for pleasure. Also accessible through Music Online.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowAccess almost 700,000 tracks from over 47,000 CDs from 300 labels, including the entire Naxos catalog. Includes classical, world, folk, and new age. Features text resources such as music terms, a pronunciation guide, opera synopses and libretti, historical notes, and more.
- Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new windowMore than 40,000 tracks of music and other sound, including American folk and blues idioms, American Indian, world music, jazz, children's songs, historical spoken word, and many natural and human-made sounds. Browse the collections, search for specific recordings, create playlists.
Video Databases
- Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new windowVideo streaming of over 1,100 dance productions and documentaries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Make your own playlists and save clips.