American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. Genres includie country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, and shape note singing.
American Music is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Video coverage of instrumental and vocal performances by major artists, as well as rehearsals, interviews, documentaries, and master classes.
Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music. All major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde.
Streaming audio of classical music recordings from over 45 labels with searching available by composer, performer, instrument, genre, historical period, or label. Liner notes also searchable. Provides personal playlist and clip-making options. Offers selected downloads for free and for purchase. Includes themed playlists and listening designed to accompany the major music history and appreciation textbooks.
Features music from 169 countries and more than 800 labels from around the world. Focus is on contemporary genres, such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, and jazz. Also traditional music—Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Lays the foundation for the study of dance in all its forms with 500 hours of content in modern dance, ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and more. Films feature many of the greatest dance companies and performers worldwide, including Agnes de Mille, Mark Morris, Lestor Horton, Anna Sokolow, Anthony Tudor, Jose Limon, Paul Draper, and Chuck Green. Also includes an array of rare and hard-to-find archival material, including footage from the George Balanchine Interpreters Archive and Archive of Lost Choreography, and historical footage from Creative Arts Television, featuring dance performances from 1950s and 1960s CBS television productions.
Instructional materials cover specific techniques, such as basic and advanced ballet techniques, jumps, turns, pirouettes, barre work, and pointe technique, providing a valuable resource for technical analysis and study.spanning from traditional ballet to hip hop, street dance, and modern dance.
Definitive audio database of jazz from the early ‘20s to today, including all major jazz genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band music, modern jazz, and more.
Largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online - with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Contains videos of concerts, operas, masterclasses and documentaries about music. Concerts from across the world are also live-streamed on Medici.TV on a regular basis.
Medici.tv boasts a collection of 1500 classical music videos: concerts, operas, ballets, archives, documentaries, artist profiles and educational programs, among others. This wealth of programs makes Medici.tv the largest online classical music video library in the world. Each year, several hundred new programs are added to its catalog, including films about the current music scene, and archives from the 1950s.
The world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 107,650 CDs with more than 1,570,400 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels, with more labels joining every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented. Additional background material includes:opera libretti and synopses, a pronunciation guide, work analyses, and classical music podcasts.
Provides streaming audio of music recordings, including over 500,000 tracks and 48,000 CD’s on over 132 record labels. Genres include classical, jazz, folk, and some non-western world music.
Offers a wide selection of recordings from Naxos and independent Labels, spanning historic jazz legends to contemporary jazz from around the globe.
Streaming audio service providing nearly 20,000 tracks of jazz, blues and R&B from Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz including Prestige, Debut, Riverside, Stax, Volt, Specialty, and Pablo, along with Prophone and Proprius. Covers international jazz.
A comprehensive collection of operatic performances covering the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Also includes interviews with singers, stage designers, and directors, integrated with excerpts of live performances, showing the development of each production.
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
Contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Popular Music Library from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Provides streaming access to over 42,000 tracks from the Smithsonian archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa, and is growing regularly as new recordings are added. In addition to a vast collection of folk and world music, the collection includes natural and human-made sounds, as we as spoken word recordings, such as literary readings, speeches, and historical documentaries.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.