Music

Contains 500+ 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.

Subscription is for Vol 1 & 2. A streaming video database of dance productions and documentaries by 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.

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.

The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. 3 concurrent users

Thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, and albums, with works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, and more. 4 concurrent users

Cross search interface for Alexander Street Press music and dance databases.

Streaming audio including 253,000+ tracks from Naxos and other music labels. Primarily for classical music, but also includes jazz, world, folk, and other contemporary genres. Full-text content includes opera synopses, libretti, and composer and artist biographies. 5 simultaneous users

An online listening service and encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions with more than 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes the published recordings of Smithsonian Folkways and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records and other labels. Also included is music recorded around the African continent for the International Library of African Music as well as material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Limited to 3 concurrent users