MUSI 662: Introduction to Research in Music

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.

Music Online allows users cross search music databases published by Alexander Street Press. These databases include: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and  Opera in Video.

History database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests.

Stream audio of over 50,000 tracks of recorded classical repertoire by over 1,800 composers from the medieval era through the late present, in most genres. Contents are licensed from over 30 record labels; in addition to playback via streaming, many items can be purchased for download as MP3 or Windows Media Player files. Updated regularly.

Contain 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. Included are  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.

A comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Wide range of popular music from around the world. Includes tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, Christian, country, electronic, hip-hop, metal, new age, punk, R&B, reggae, rock, and soundtracks.

A virtual encyclopedia of over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds that includes recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and others. Browse by musical instrument, geographical area, or cultural group.

Provides streaming access to both standard and rare repertoires of music. Included are classical, world, jazz, and pop/rock music. Additional resources include libretti, pronunciation guide, and glossary.

Offers a large selection of works by jazz legends and contemporary artists. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented. The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 200 labels, and include the catalog of Blue Note Records, Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy and others. note: Access limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Contains over 60,000 professional sound effects for high definition media production. Includes Sonopedia, Hybrid, and Liminal Void collections. Liminal Void collection purchased with funds from the John F. and Kathleen M. Kehoe Film and Video Studies Endowment.

Provides access to a range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. Consists of streamed video and audio footage with relevant critical commentary, including: interviews with key figures in theater history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; footage of legendary practitioners; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries. Spans more than fifty years of documented work direct from renowned practitioners and specialists, and ranges across the entire spectrum of theater topics.

Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Provides transcriptions of Native and non-native speakers of English reading the same paragraph. Produced at George Mason University.