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Opera in Video
Contains 500 hours of video comprising 288 operatic works. Each video is navigable by act and scene, or use the searchable, self-scrolling transcript to jump to any point in the performance. Mobile-web friendly; supports playlist and clip creation.
Metropolitan Opera On Demand
Met Opera on Demand provides access to more than 550 full performances from the Metropolitan Opera House, including more than 400 audio recordings of performances originally broadcast over radio and more than 150 video recordings from classic telecasts and the Met's Live in HD series. All operas include a synopsis in English, and all videos include English subtitles.
Limited to 10 concurrent users at a time
NAXOS Music Library
Audio collection with over 110,000 albums and 1.6 million tracks. Mostly classical, with modest holdings in Jazz, Folk, and World Music genres. Searchable and browsable. Includes downloadable liner notes to many albums, and an extensive biographical database of composers and artists. Also available as a mobile app for Android and iOS.
Classical Music Library
Audio collection with more than 57,000 albums. Includes downloadable liner notes to many recordings and a database of biographical and historical information. Supports playlist and clip creation.
Jazz Music Library
Audio collection with more than 52,000 albums. Includes downloadable liner notes to many recordings and a database of biographical and historical information. Supports playlist and clip creation.
Popular Music Library
Audio collection with more than 413,000 albums. Supports playlist and clip creation.
American Music
Audio collection with more than 47,000 albums. Includes downloadable liner notes to many recordings. Supports playlist and clip creation.
Contemporary World Music
Audio collection with more than 147,000 albums. Includes downloadable liner notes to many recordings. Supports playlist and clip creation.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Audio collection with more than 3,000 albums, including not just music but also spoken work and oral history recordings. Includes downloadable liner notes to many recordings. Supports playlist and clip creation.
Vocal MasterClassics
Index to publicly available videos about master classics. Search the Menu options by Artist, Song, Composer, etc. to get the best of our this resource!
Ethnographic Sound Archive
Historic audio recordings and their supporting field materials for the study of music in its cultural context. The collection brings together 2,000 hours of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Medici TV
Classical music channel featuring concerts, operas, ballets, and documentaries.
Music Online: Qwest TV Collection
This collection preserves diverse liveperformances, covering the evolution of jazz and beyond, representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres.

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