Guides: Subject Guide ~ Music: Images & Multimedia

Audio

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of classical music. Currently the collection totals 2,539,019 tracks of fine recorded music with hundreds of albums added monthly.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. Please Log Out when you are finished.
Faculty: Stable URLs for albums, tracks and playlists can be placed in Blackboard. To create playlists for your students, please contact Lynn Mayo for the faculty username and password.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
More than 550 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. All videos contain English subtitles and recent performances include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

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American Memory Sound Recordings
From the Library of Congress, this online resource contains sound recordings from a wide variety of interests, including African-American music, Civil War era music, Fiddle tunes, and much more.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
From the University of California, Santa Barbara. Contains over 8,000 digital audio files of recordings made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including popular songs, Vaudeville, minstrel music, and more.
National Jukebox
Contains more than 10,000 historical recordings made by the Victor Talking Company between 1901 and 1925. From the Library of Congress.
Songs of America
From popular and traditional songs, to poetic art songs and sacred music, the relationship of song to historical events from the nation's founding to the present is highlighted through more than 80,000 online items. The user can listen to digitized recordings, watch performances of artists interpreting and commenting on American song, and view sheet music, manuscripts, and historic copyright submissions online. The site also includes biographies, essays and curated content, interactive maps, a timeline and teaching resources offering context and expert analysis to the source material.

Video

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Full-length British theatre productions (from Shakespeare to contemporary), in-depth interviews with cast and crew, documentaries, masterclasses, study guides and teaching materials.
Includes works from:
Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, Frantic Assembly, BroadwayHD, the Lincoln Center Theater, the Old Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Young Vic, the Stratford Festival, Complicité, Shakespeare's Globe, Gecko Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, L.A. Theatre Works, the Liverpool Everyman, the Royal Opera House, the Almeida Theatre, the English Touring Theatre, the English National Ballet, and many more.
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of more than 25,000 documentary videos and over 240,000 video segments, organized into 25 subject areas. Special features allow faculty and students to bookmark favorites, create and share playlists, embed videos and clips into Blackboard, create proper citations, and easily export citations to RefWorks. Captioning and searchable transcripts available for all titles.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
A streaming video collection for colleges. Over 25,000 films from producers such as PBS, Media Education Foundation, Criterion Collection, First Run Features, HBO, Kino Lorber, and more.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
More than 550 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. All videos contain English subtitles and recent performances include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

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OntheBoards.TV This link opens in a new window
Videos of full-length, contemporary performances (dance, theatre, music) from around the world.

Images

America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
Full image reproductions of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in the U.S. over a 170-year period. Items include advertisements, almanacs, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, laws, maps, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.
Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Note: A personal account on JSTOR is required to download images. If you had an Artstor account, you already have a JSTOR account.
An image library for the arts and sciences. A rich collection of more than one million high-resolution images and tools for teaching and research. Subjects include architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Coverage: prehistory to present.
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Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Note: Limited to 1 simultaneous user.
Scholarly encyclopedia for music research with more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies.

Songs of America
From popular and traditional songs, to poetic art songs and sacred music, the relationship of song to historical events from the nation's founding to the present is highlighted through more than 80,000 online items. The user can listen to digitized recordings, watch performances of artists interpreting and commenting on American song, and view sheet music, manuscripts, and historic copyright submissions online. The site also includes biographies, essays and curated content, interactive maps, a timeline and teaching resources offering context and expert analysis to the source material.