Streaming Audio Databases
Reed Library subscribes to a number of streaming audio databases. Click on the database vendor name below for complete listings, links, and descriptions of each database.
Alexander Street Press Databases
Naxos Music Library
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
Alexander Street Press
- Music Online - A cross-searchable index of various Alexander Street Press databases, including: African American Reference, Classical Music Reference, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Classical Scores Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music and the Jazz Music Library.
- Classical Music Library - "Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. 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."
- Jazz Music Library - "Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. At launch, the collection includes works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige. Labels being added include Circle Records, GHB Records, Good Time Jazz, GRP Records, Impulse, Peak, Riverside, Solo Art Records, Stretch Records, Verve, and dozens more."
- Smithsonian Global Sound - "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. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies."
- American Song - A historical 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.
- Contemporary World Music - This database delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains 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.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library provides access to over 640,000 audio tracks from more than 44,000 CDs with thousands of composers represented. The library offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues and recordings from dozens of other participating labels such as BIS, Berlin Classics, Opus 111, and many others. NML also offers recordings of contemporary jazz, world music and a host of online educational products.
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
A not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. The main focus of the database is to provide access to 20th-century American music that is not otherwise readily available in recorded format.
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