Contains a variety of essential reference materials allowing users to chronicle the history of music of diverse origins and walks of life. Includes manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Listen to American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, pioneers, cowboys, etc. Over 14,000 tracks and growing.
Over 52,000 audio tracks of classical music from the Medieval to the contemporary, with chamber music, symphonies, choral music, solo vocal and instrumental, and other forms.
A growing database of audio tracks to include reggae, world beat, world fusion, Balkan jazz, African film, Arab swing and jazz, and traditional genres such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, and gagaku.
A collection of jazz recordings from acclaimed artists on thousands of albums, from the beginnings of jazz to today.
Includes hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, and soundtracks.
Over 1,800 classical music performances (3000 original works), including concerts and archived historical concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, and master classes.
Approximately 1,500 performances of leading orchestras, chamber music, solo performances, master classes and interviews with world renowned performers and teachers.
Streaming videos of important opera performances from some of the world's leading opera houses, also interviews and documentaries.
Features contemporary self-published scores by major composers and critical editions of compositions that are lesser known but often studied.
A streaming video resource that includes high-quality, full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music, and other forms.
A collection of contemporary music scores presented in a virtual booklet format allowing you to read music while you listen.
