MUS 396 Special Studies in Music History: Media Materials

Provides access to over 132,000 albums and over 2,000,000 music tracks from the Naxos label and other catalogs. Users can listen to audio tracks of classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music. Besides providing streaming audio, the database also provides biographical information on musicians and composers as well as notes on the music itself. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.

Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.

Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

A collection of over 35,000 academic videos from a variety of producers, including A&E, PBS, BBC Learning, National Geographic, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HBO Documentary Films, PBS NewsHour, Open University, Bill Moyers, California Newsreel, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more.