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American History in Video (ASP) |
American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period. A landmark collection—the largest of its kind—American History in Video will enrich any history program and will see wide use across the curriculum. At completion, this online collection will include more than 2,000 hours of streaming video—more than 5,000 titles in all. |
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American Song (ASP) |
Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song, including 17,000 tracks from the original interface, plus 18,000 newly released tracks. American Song 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. Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song, including 17,000 tracks from the original interface, plus 18,000 newly released tracks. See the About page for details. |
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Classical Music in Video |
(Expires May 2, 2013) 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. |
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Classical Music Library (ASP) |
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels). Never before have institutions been able to offer library users such ease of access to our recorded heritage.
Moore Library thanks Talbott for sharing this resource with the Lawrenceville Campus. |
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Classical Scores Library, Volume II |
(Expires May 2, 2013) Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores. |
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Contemporary World Music (ASP) |
Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain 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. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian global sound for libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world |
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Dance in Video |
(Expires May 2, 2013) Dance in Video will contain five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. |
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DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) |
A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings (formerly Composers Recordings Inc./CRI) and other important labels. |
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Jazz Music Library (ASP) |
Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. |
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Medici.tv |
All year long you can enjoy free live concerts, operas, ballets with the greatest artists of our time on our audio-visual platform. These live events are then available for a limited time on our website. Since its opening in 2008, medici.tv has built an international reputation by broadcasting over 200 classical music events and by connecting a community of aficionados from over 180 countries. |
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Music Online (ASP) |
Music Online will deliver audio recordings, video recordings, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images from the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products on a single cross-searchable platform. Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases:
- African American Music Reference
- American Song
- Classical Music Library
- Classical Music Reference Library
- Classical Scores Library
- Contemporary World Music
- The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
- Jazz Music Library
- Opera in Video
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Naxos Music Library |
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies. Naxos Online Libraries YouTube Channel |
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Naxos Video Library |
The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300* operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos. |
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Opera in Video (ASP) |
A streaming video database that will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. The 2008 release includes 40 videos, equaling 80 hours. |
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (ASP) |
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. |
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