LibGuides: Music: Audio and Video

Listening Online

Music Online: Listening (United States) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. It cross searches American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
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ASP Video Tutorials
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Largest online classical music library with streaming access to over 45,000 CDs. Includes composer and artist biographies and comprehensive liner notes.
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Archive of Recorded Church Music
Archive endeavors to acquire and preserve audio and video recordings of Church Music from 1902 to the present day. Find here a major collection of Radio & TV broadcasts, such as BBC Choral Evensongs, religious services, concerts and documentaries.
BBC Sound Effects Archive
Over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years.
British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library's extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
EVIA Digital Archive
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a joint effort of Indiana University and the University of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnographic video for use by scholars and instructors. Media in the EVIA Project consists of video collections that have been selected for inclusion by an editorial committee, and annotations have gone through a scholarly review process. The Archive is designed to be a long-term preservation repository for unedited ethnographic video recordings as well as a unique kind of peer-reviewed scholarly publication. The grown of the content is ongoing.
Free Music Archive
An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by radio station WFMU.
The Great 78 Project
The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings. Found here are over 20 collections have been selected by the Internet Archive for physical and digital preservation and access. Started by many volunteer collectors, these new collections have been selected, digitized and preserved by the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music.
Internet Archive Audio Recordings
This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
National Jukebox
The National Jukebox makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
Pandora
Pandora is a free or subscription online radio service. A sign-in is required.
radiOM.org
Contains Other Minds music festival concert productions; selected recordings of new music by contemporary composers; and KPFA -FM Radio in Berkeley California, tapes containing live conversations, interviews, and performances with many of the innovative musicians who created 20th Century new music. A free log-in is required to listen to archival materials.
UbuWeb
Resource for avant-garde audio and film.

Recordings in the Library

WSU Library Catalog

The Music Library contains thousands of compact disc recordings, as well as LP recordings. Search the Library Catalog to find a recording to check out or to listen to in the Library.

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Creating Playlists in Naxos Music Library

Using Music Online

For more Music Online Tutorials, consult the Alexander Street Press webpage: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/

Music Videos in the Music Library

The Music Library holds DVD and VHS titles of many opera, jazz, symphonic and chamber music performances, along with a variety of documentaries relating to the study of music. Note: Staged versions of musicals are found in the Music Library, while cinematic versions are found in Ablah Library. All videos are are listed in the Libraries' online catalog: http://libcat.wichita.edu

Joyce Didonato - Norma intermission interview 2017

To see the production, check out the DVD from the Music Library in the Music and Languages Innovation Center, Jardine 313, under call number M1500.B44 N6 2018.

Videos Online

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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This is a comprehensive video collection that delivers more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. It includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs & newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. It has award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.
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60 Minutes: 1997-2014, American History in Video, Art and Architecture in Video, Asian Film Online (Volumes * & II), Black Studies in Video, Business Education in Video, Classical Music in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volumes I-III), Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Current Affairs in Video, Dance in Video (Volumes I & II), Education in Video (Volumes I & II), Environmental Studies in Video, Ethnographic Video Online (Volumes I-III), Fashion STudies Online, Filmakers Library Online (Volumes I-III), Health and Society in Video, Latin American in Video, LGBT Studies in Video, The March of Time, Meet the Press, new World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present, Opera in Video, BBC Video Collection, PBS Video Collect (2nd Ed), Silent Film Online, Theatre in Video (Volumes I & II), Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy, World History in Video, and World Newsreels Online.
Classical Music in Video This link opens in a new window
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Music Online: 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. Terms of Use
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
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A source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Includes the Master Academic Collection and the FMG Archival Films and Newsreels Collection.
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Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window
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Streaming collection of over 300 Sony films from 1992 to 2015, including world cinema. The collection features a strong emphasis on documentary. Films in the catalog have received more than 133 Academy Award® nominations, with 33 wins, including thirteen awards for Best Foreign Language Film and four awards for Best Documentary Feature. Terms of Use

Carnegie Hall on Youtube: Workshops and Masterclass Videos
Experience Carnegie Hall's series of workshops and master classes firsthand through this archival video library.
Folkstreams
Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures. Among other films relating to folk music, find here the American Patchwork series, hosted by Alan Lomax.
Open Culture
Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns; Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.
Operavision
Watch performances streamed live from the theatre, and on demand for several months thereafter. Enjoy a variety of shows - including opera, operetta, musical theatre, dance, ballet and concerts - all for free, live and on demand. OperaVision offers new streams every week making up a balanced online season of the best loved titles alongside world premieres and new discoveries.
Robert Shaw: Preparing a Masterpiece
Carnegie Hall provides the opportunity to witness sessions of Robert Shaw Choral Workshop, Volumes 1–8.
rarefilmm
Free site with over 3,000 archived "forgotten" films.
UbuWeb
Resource for avant-garde audio and film.

Music Scores Online

Naxos Sheet Music Library This link opens in a new window
Online sheet music with over 45,000 works available for instant download and printing.
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Online sheet music with over 45,000 works available for instant download and printing.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library Vols I - IV This link opens in a new window
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Music Online: Classical Scores Library is a series of four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars. Includes Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I - IV. Terms of Use

Partifi
Partifi was created for musicians by musicians, freely offering this part-making tool and maintaining a publicly accessible library of user-contributed scores. Click on the "help" button for video instructions.

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