The Library subscribes to streamed music sources offering a wide variety of musical repertoire and performances. These subscription sources are limited to University of Chicago users; 3 simultaneous users on Classical Music Library, 5 each on African-American Song, Smithsonian Global Sound, and NAXOS.
Classical Music Library, African American Song, and Smithsonian Global Sound are all from the same vendor, Alexander Street Press, and share the same interface. They have a timeout system; you'll be asked to click at the end of the period to stay logged on, otherwise the connection times out and you have to go in again. NAXOS, however, requires that you log off when you are finished. If you don't do so, you are still tying up one of the five simultaneous user "seats," preventing a colleague from using it.
Please remember to log off when you're done with NAXOS!If you are a member of the University of Chicago community but are using a commercial internet service provider, you must log into the Library website using the
proxy server in order to be recognized by the Library's subscription services as a University of Chicago user.
Page index to sound resourcesAfrican American Song
Classical Music Library
DRAM
Smithsonian Global Sound
NAXOS Music Library
African American Song is a streamed service containing 20,000+ multi-genre recordings of music documenting the African-American experience in the United States and Caribbean. The service provides access to the Alan Lomax collection, the catalogs of Document Records and Rounder Records, and many rare recordings dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alexander Street Press provides a free
scope note with more detail on the database's growing catalog of streamed performances and details about static URLs for instructors.
Classical Music Library is a classical music collection of 35,000-plus licensed recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary information such as program notes, composer biographies, and themed playlists. It contains recordings from several different classical record labels, including EMI and Hyperion.
Alexander Street Press provides a free
scope note that provides details of the database's growing catalog of streamed performances and details about static URLs for instructors.
DRAM is a streamed audio resource supplying online access to recordings from New World Records, Composer Records, Inc. (CRI), Albany, Cedille, Mode, and 10 additional CD labels. Audio files are accompanied by the complete and original liner notes and essays. Currently, DRAM includes 1,500 complete CDs, totalling 9,800 individual works.
Smithsonian Global Sound is a subscription service that includes several musical traditions from around the world. It includes world music labels such as Folkways, as well as field recordings such as Dr. Hugh Tracey's recordings for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and South Asian recordings from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE). Also featured are recordings of American folk musics (blues, bluegrass, early jazz, and Native American music) as well as some Broadway show tunes, children's music, and spoken word and sounds.
Alexander Street Press provides a free
scope note that provides details of the database's growing catalog of streamed performances and details about static URLs for instructors.
NAXOS Music Library is a classical music streamed service. It contains the entire NAXOS, Marco Polo, and DaCapo catalogs. CD covers, track listings, liner notes, composer biographical information, opera synopses and libretti, and custom playlists are available.
The database includes Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th-21st. century works including world premieres, complete operas and libretti, great historical performances of operas and concerts, complete work cycles. It also includes some world and folk musics as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish classics and some jazz and New Age.
Naxos Music Library provides infomation about the service on its website at
www.naxosmusiclibrary.com.To get information for instructors about playlists and static URLs, use the link provided above and click on the FAQ in the upper right corner of the page (below the language selection box.) Select from the menu entitled "FAQs regarding Daily Use of the NML" and select either the information about playlists or the information about static URLs.
