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Search all Alexander Street Press databases (American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound); includes some unique popular music tracks, both classic and obscure.
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American Song
Tracks: 69,000+
Scope: American music with historical emphasis, including politics, civil rights, prohibition, war. Includes content from African American Song.
Labels include: Rounder, McNeil, Native Ground, Smithsonian Folkways, Stax.
Extras: create playlists; get updates via rss feed.
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Tracks: 65,000+
Scope: Western classical music of all periods and repertoires.
Labels include: Arabesque, Artemis Classics/Vanguard, ASV, Bridge, EMI Classics, Hänssler Classics, Hyperion, Lyrichord, Nimbus, and Vox (34 labels total).
Extras: bi-monthly free download, themed play lists, biographies, still images, glossary, blog. Downloads available for purchase.
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Tracks: 25,000+
Scope: a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings. Focus on contemporary genres such as fusion and world beat.
Labels include: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, Lyrichord World Music, Navras Records, and INEDIT.
Extras: personal and themed playlists.
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Tracks: 15,000+
Scope: Primarily American music including folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic.
Labels include: New World, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, Pogus, Deep listening, Mutable Music, Cold Blue, Artifact and Frog Peak Music.
Extras: complete liner notes.
Tracks: 60,000+
Scope: Jazz, blues.
Search by: performer, composer, title, genre, instrument, ensemble, recording date and place, label.
Labels include: Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Jazzology, Prestige, and more.
Extras: personal play lists, complete liner notes.
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Tracks: 22,600+
Scope: jazz, blues, R&B.
Labels include: Naxos Jazz, Prophone, Proprius, and the 22 labels in the Fantasy Jazz family.
Extras: personal play lists.
Downloads available for purchase.
iPhone app available.
Tracks: 658,000+
Scope: Western classical music of all periods and repertoires, jazz, world, folk, Chinese, New Age/“adult contemporary”.
Labels include: Naxos, Analekta, BIS, Chandos, Gimell, Hungariton, Marco Polo, Opera Rara, Signum Classics, Wergo.
Extras: “moods and scenarios” search, opera libretti and synopses, glossary, musical terms dictionary, pronunciation guide, audiobook transcriptions, podcasts, blog, newsletter.
Downloads available for purchase.
iPhone app available.
Creating a student playlist account in Naxos (YouTube)
Building playlists in Naxos (YouTube)
Tracks: 41,000+
Scope: traditional, vernacular, folk, spoken word, sound environment, field recordings, children’s music.
Labels/archives include: Smithsonian Folkways, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, the International Library of African Music, and the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology.
Extras: radio shuffle streams, video clips, podcasts, artist biographies, play lists, lesson plans.
Downloads available for purchase.
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High-definition webcasts from many other leading festivals, including Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis, Aspen, Glyndebourne, and Lucerne, as well as from such music venues as the Opéra National de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, Cité de la Musique, and Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Milan's famed La Scala. Many operas and concerts performed by the world's top-flight artists and orchestras have been webcast both as live events and later as video-on-demand.
Works: 540+ full-length videos
Scope: Operas, ballets, concerts, documentaries
Labels include: Arthaus, EuroArts, Haenssler Classics, Innova, Opus Arte
Extras: playlists; track markers
Works: 286 videos
Scope: classical and contemporary dance; coaching sessions; interviews
Extras: playlists; track markers
