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Alexander Street Press - Music Online
Now the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource, the first in its kind to deliver audio, video, scores and text reference through one centralized interface. This release represents a milestone in digital music reference. The new interface now cross-searches the music related products below.
Alexander Street Press - African American Song
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
Alexander Street Press - American Song
American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include 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. This release includes 1,043 albums, equalling 17,859 tracks.
Alexander Street Press - 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. This release includes 3,628 albums, equalling 55,903 tracks.
Alexander Street Press - Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important 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. This release includes 1,030 albums, equalling 13,726 tracks.
Alexander Street Press - Dance in Video
Dance in Video contains 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most 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. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles.
Alexander Street Press - Opera
Opera in Video will contain five hundred 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.
Alexander Street Press - Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a joint venture with Smithsonian Global Sound®), an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries allows educators and students around the world to access full-length streams of the vast audio database through an array of subscription options.
Alexander Street Press -Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Films on Demand - Music & Dance
A collection of streaming videos about music appreciation, history and various types of world music.
Arts & Humanities
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