Music

Music & Performing Arts provides an integrated search engine to the following online collections published by Alexander Street Press: 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, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video.

Naxos Music Library is a collection of recorded music with over 150,000 albums of classical repertoire, film and TV soundtracks, pop, jazz, and world music.

Naxos Music Library is a collection of recorded jazz with over 18,000 historic and recent albums by artists from around the world.

Naxos Music Library World is a comprehensive collection of world music. Naxos Music Library World comprises the catalogs of Smithsonian Folkways and a variety of other labels.

The Naxos Video Library offers more than 3400 filmed performances of classical music, opera, ballet, as well as documentaries and master classes.

DRAM (Digital Recorded American Music) is a recorded music collection with a particular focus on the American experimental tradition, with recordings from the catalogs of New World Records, Composers Recordings Inc, Deep Listening, Experimental Intermedia, Lovely Music, Mode, Wandelweiser, and other independent record labels.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, along with supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata.

Smithsonian Global Sound is an audible encyclopedia of the world's music and related aural traditions, as documented by recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue and other sources.

Met Opera on Demand is a collection of live performances, some in video and some audio only, selected from the New York Metropolitan Opera's broadcast archives.

Medici.tv is a video streaming channel for classical music, including operas, ballets, orchestral and chamber performances, and master classes, featuring an international roster of distinguished artists.

Qwest TV is a subscription video streaming channel for institutions dedicated to jazz, soul, funk, and world music. The catalog features concerts, award-winning documentaries, rare archival footage, and exclusive content. Each video is accompanied by notes written by journalists and music experts. There are also exclusive playlists personally curated by legends such as Chick Corea, Michael League, Quincy Jones, Ed Motta, and many more.

The Roulette archive is a digital repository of live audio and video recordings, concert listings, posters, photos, press, and ephemera, all documenting Roulette’s history as a center of avant-garde music and intermedia performance on New York’s “downtown” scene since 1978.

BroadwayHD offers filmed performances of selected Broadway plays from the 1960s to the 2010s.

The Criterion Collection offers streaming access to more than 400 cinematic classics selected from the Criterion Films catalog.

Digital Theatre Plus offers full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops with playwrights, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and others involved in the playmaking process.

Dance in Video features filmed productions and documentaries of the choreographic arts, in genres including ballet, modern, tap, jazz, traditional, experimental, and improvisational dance.