Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.

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Music Online offers a single platform for cross-searching audio recordings, 400,000 pages of scores, 100,000 pages of music reference and over 500 hours of video.

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Naxos is an online classical music library offering access to the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues. With over 800 new albums added every month, genres including classic pop, rock and Chinese orchestral music are also represented. Also see Naxos Music Library Jazz.
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Online jazz music collection offering over 100,000 jazz tracks from more than 12,000 represented artists. Contains the catalogues of Blue Notes Records, 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz and over 150 other labels. Also see Naxos Music Library.
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Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.

Music Online: African American Music Reference brings together the very best of Alexander Street Music text collections relevant to African American music in one accessible package. Music scholars will easily access useful encyclopedias, scores, manuscripts, biographies, and other reference texts that make up the core of music curricula around the world.

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Classical Music Reference Library brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.

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Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century is a collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements. Over 200,000 pages of material will be available for research on the Alexander Street multimedia platform – the only resource that allows users to cross-search the full text of all articles with videos, audio recordings, photographs, scores, and reference texts.

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Music Periodicals Database is a music journal resource with more than 1.3 million articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. An unrivalled resource for music research, it t provides indexing and abstracts for more than 425 international music periodicals, plus full text for around 140 journals. No other individual resource has comparable index-plus-full text coverage.

The database currently includes over 1.3 million article records, the majority of which are journal articles from 1996 onward. Around 200,000 index records in the datavase are from the backfile (up to 1995) and much of this coverage commences at the first issue of the journal run, some starting as early as 1874.

Music Periodicals Database covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.

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The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an account of the evolution of Western classical music by musicologist Richard Taruskin.

This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes almost a million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal. Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
Coverage: 1864 - current

Indexes articles on music and related subjects from over 500 journals; also books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, concert reviews, films and videos. 1967 to present. Updated monthly. Available via the Proquest platform.

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BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. You can choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions.

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Kanopy is an online video streaming platform with access to a unique collection of films in the world, including documentaries and training films.

Classical music performances in video

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Music Online: Opera in Video 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.

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Digital Theatre brings live performance into every classroom and library, over 900 full-length productions + curriculum-linked resources including backstage insights, practitioner interviews and written analysis.This range of educational resources can be used for illustration, explanation, and critical reflection.

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Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY® and more.