Music: Image / Sound Databases

Alexander Street allows users to cross-search three video collections published by Alexader Street Press: Counseling & Therapy in Video, Opera in Video, and Theatre in Video.

Contains over 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. There is also traditional music.

Coverage: 1838 to the early 1900s
A collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements. Over 200,000 pages of material will be available for research on the Alexander Street multimedia platform – the only resource that allows users to cross-search the full text of all articles with videos, audio recordings, photographs, scores, and reference texts.

Provides footage of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Delve into the cultural study of music and explore content from across the globe with this diverse and comprehensive collection. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. The collections include 76 peer-reviewed music scholarly journals as well as academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.

The world leading classical music channel streamed live. Watch live and on-demand classical music videos from the world's largest catalogue of operas, concerts, ballets, and more. Explore the latest and upcoming stunning live events from the world’s most prestigious halls, plus thousands of concerts, operas, ballets, and more.

The world's largest online classical music library provides access to more than 34,000 CDs, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

Offers over 3,000 CDs of jazz music.

It is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places.

Coverage: before 1800
This is a free internet resource on Music. It includes (a) series A/II: music manuscripts between 1600 and 1800; (b) series A/I: prints issued before 1800 and (c) series B/I: anthologies issued between 1500 and 1550. Digital versions can be searched exclusively and read online.