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American song - UW restricted UW restricted
"American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more."--About the database
Bow down to Washington
Contains history, facsimile score, and five recordings of the University of Washington fight song, Bow down to Washington
Classical music library - UW restricted UW restricted - (Public display) Part of: Music Online Listening package
Provides musical sound recordings and MIDI files, program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history, and glossary), and images. The music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages through to the present. Users navigate through browse lists, a search engine and music track playlists
Contemporary world music - UW restricted UW restricted
"Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain 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. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian global sound for libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world"--About the database
Cylinder preservation and digitization project
Discography of blue grass sound recordings, 1942-
Discography of bluegrass recordings issued since 1942. Includes singles (33, 45, and 78 rpm), extended play, long playing, compact disc, and DVD indexed by label, by performer, and by title
Discography of recorded Tuvan, Mongolian, and Siberian music
Comprehensive discography of Tuvan, Mongolian and Siberian music. Each entry includes complete list of performers and titles of songs
Diskographie Samuel Scheidt angeordnet nach dem SSWV = Discography Samuel Scheidt : arranged according to SSWV /
Discography of the music of Samuel Scheidt
DRAM - UW restricted UW restricted - (Public display)
A collection of American music recordings by New World Records, from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond. Other labels currently represented on the database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable. Alongside the high quality music streams, complete liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies, and discographies are available for viewing on the database
Emile Berliner and the birth of the recording industry
Focuses on the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries who was responsible for the development of the microphone, flat recording disc, and gramophone player. Features correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, motion picture components, and rare sound recordings
Fiddle tunes of the old frontier the Henry Reed collection, from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress /
Presents a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, andinfluence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms
Fightsongs.com
Contains links to audio files of the fight songs of many colleges and universities in the U.S., sorted by athletic conference
Folk music an index to recorded resources/
Index to tunes and songs from over 2,200 traditional and contemporary recordings. Access by title and performer with information on the publishers and a bibliography
Grateful Dead family discography
Discography of recordings related to the Grateful Dead and Bay Area music in the second half of the 1960's along with recordings by musicians who have been closely associated with the Grateful Dead or with individual members of the Grateful Dead
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) a discography /
Discography of the music of Hildegarde von Bingen (1098-1179) with links to a few other related sites
James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection
Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
Music online - UW restricted UW restricted
Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content from all Alexander Street Press music databases
National Geographic world music
Provides audio samples from different regions of the world
Naxos music library - UW restricted UW restricted
Comprehensive collection of online classical, jazz, world, new age, and folk music including the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogs. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's database
Naxos Music Library. Jazz - UW restricted UW restricted
Comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. Includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy catalog and Naxos Jazz. Works may be searched by featured artist(s), disc / song title and catalog number
Offenbacher Mozart collection
Listing of the standard play (78 rpm) recordings of the vocal music (operatic arias and ensembles, concert arias, lieder, and sacred music) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this collection. Also includes some images of record labels and sound excerpts from the collection
Oscar Peterson a jazz sensation
Renaissance masses, 1440-1520
Selective chant discography
Selective discography designed to illustrate some of the different interpretations of the performance of chant available on record
Smithsonian global sound for libraries - UW restricted UW restricted - Part of: Music Online Listening package
"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."
Tolkien music list
Provides an exhaustive discography of musical works inspired by or referential to the fictional writings of J.R.R. Tolkien (The lord of the rings, The hobbit, The Silmarillion, and their accompanying mythology)
virtual gramophone Canadian historical sound recordings = Le gramophone virtuel : enregistrements historiques canadiens
A growing multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound. With a database of images and digital audio recordings, as well as biographies of musicians and histories of music and recorded sound in Canada, The Virtual Gramophone provides researchers and enthusiasts with a comprehensive look at the 78-rpm era in Canada


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