Search books, scores, and recordings held in the Music Library by searching IUCAT.
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Most of the classical repertoire. Some recordings have accompanying PDFs of liner notes.
Primarily classical music, but also some coverage of jazz and world music. Due to copyright restrictions, some titles are not available in the United States.
Sound files of traditional music from around the world, plus notes, images, video, and lesson plans. Search by culture, genre, instrument, year, etc. Includes access to volumes 1 and 2.
Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Includes music recorded around the African continent for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Access to opera performances, staged productions, interviews, and documentaries covering repertoire from the Baroque period to the 20th century. Includes access to both Opera in Video Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Selections represent a wide range of performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.