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Audio recordings of American music, including classical, folk, jazz, Native American, early rock, musical theater, electronic, and beyond.
Coverage: mid 1995 - present
An index of in-progress and completed music dissertations since mid-1995. Also includes records from the 1984 edition of DDM.
Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Covers the full spectrum of dance--theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
Free downloads of thousands of classical music scores that are in the public domain.
Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press provides access to four collections of streaming audio (American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound) from one search screen.
Coverage: 1978 to the present
Indexes hundreds of music periodicals covering many musical styles and genres.
A history database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 865 albums, equaling 14,632 tracks.
This audio database provides classical music with some of the world's finest orchestras and soloists.
Contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 musical scores.
Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, including 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.
Comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music from the early 1920s to today with thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels.
Music Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that includes audio, video, and some classical music scores. It includes over 910,000 albums and is fully searchable, with browsing available by collection and broad subject categories.
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Simultaneous users allowed: 6
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Contains audio recordings of jazz, including hundreds of jazz artists and several jazz recording labels.
PC users:
Plug-in: Must have Windows Media Player 9 / 10 Series, downloadable through the Naxos site.
Browser: Features are optimized through IE; Cookies must be enabled in any browser used.
Mac users:
Plug-in: Must download the correct version of Windows Media Player ; Users with Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0 should download version 7.1; Users with Mac OS 10 or higher should download version 9.
Offcampus Mac Users: Access via the VPN if you are having any technical problems.
Unix/Linux is not supported.
If having problem with 'breaks' in the music, try switching from Near CD Quality [64Kbps] to FM Quality [20Kbps].
For more technical information, click on FAQ at the Naxos site and look for "Technical FAQs."
Users may view playlists but may not create or edit playlists.
The mobile app asks for an activation code when it is being accessed off campus and the "Connection with your Institution" button is clicked. Please contact esubs@mit.edu if you are asked for a code and someone will follow up with you shortly.
Contains audio recordings that cover a wide range of classical music from the Naxos recording label and many other labels.
Simultaneous users allowed: 5
This streaming video database provides a large collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Annotated bibliographies and research guides by music scholars.
Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Coverage: Select coverage from 2012 - 2019
Offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in music.
Simultaneous users allowed: 3
Encyclopedia of music that includes articles written by the world's leading music authorities with links to images and digital sound.
Coverage: 2018 - present
Provides access to all titles published in 2018 and later in the following RRIMO series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th-20th Centuries, American, Oral Traditions, Collegium Musicum.
Coverage: 1967 - present
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and other publications that cover music.
Coverage: 1967 to the present.
The archive supports research in 20th and 21st century history, politics, music, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, and more.