Access to streaming video of over 700 concert videos from six decades. Also includes live broadcasts, films, documentaries, artist portraits, and interviews with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Please note: individual registration is required for access via apps on mobile devices and smart TVs. Users must revalidate their account once every 90 days by accessing via the IU Libraries and logging into their account.
Recordings of American music, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels.
The Database of Recorded American Music contains compositions drawn from New World, Composers Recordings, and other labels. The recordings are CD quality audio and include liner notes and essays.
Media Collections Online (MCO) provides a means for collection managers and select scholarly projects to provide online access to audio and video recordings.
MCO supports a variety of access restrictions, including public access, IU-only access, and restricted access based on network ID or group membership. Online media can be embedded in other websites to support online exhibits or scholarly publishing. Collection managers can put content into MCO one-at-a-time using a web application, or in batches using a dropbox with descriptive metadata in a spreadsheet.
Produces and broadcasts concerts and programs in collaboration with orchestras and concert halls.
Users may create individual accounts, see individual account instructions.
Since its official launch in May 2008, Medici.tv has gained international recognition, bringing together a community of music and arts lovers. Building on the success of webcasts from the Verbier Festival in 2007, Medici.tv has since offered high-definition webcasts from many other leading festivals, including Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis, Aspen, Glyndebourne, and Lucerne, as well as from such music venues as the Opéra National de Paris, Auditorium du Louvre, Cité de la Musique, and Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Milan's famed La Scala. Many operas and concerts performed by the world's top-flight artists and orchestras have been webcast both as live events and later as video-on-demand (VOD).
Met performances in various formats, including live in HD. Includes telecasts from the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and '00s and radio broadcasts dating back to 1936.
The Metropolitan Opera is home to creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
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.
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.
Provides online access to titles from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus selected titles from other labels.
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.
To utilize the Naxos player on your smartphone:
Provides access to streaming video for theater education. Includes filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material, in addition to playlists, video clips, and on-screen transcripts.
Includes access to two volumes:
Theatre in Video: Volume I: access to plays, documentaries, interviews, and instructional materials in more than 550 hours of streaming video. Covers 20th century theater history, from productions of Shakespeare to in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett.
Theatre in Video: Volume II: greater focus on new and international productions. Includes new performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre collection (Opus Arte), Theatre Arts Films, the BBC, and TMW Media Group.
Provides access to music of all regions from every continent.
Covers 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.
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. Access is for Volumes I, II, and III.