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The FreeHandMusic.com catalogue contains thousands of original scores from the world?s leading publishers, artists and composers, including Oxford University Press, Josef Weinberger, Universal Edition, Chick Corea, Sir James Galway, Joe Lovano, Edizioni Pizzicato, Sikorski Musikverlage, and - as they say - many, many more. Download, transpose, and/or print Legacy Edition sheet music instantly.

The first volume of Classical Scores Library includes more than 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores and manuscripts ever written. Students, faculty, and scholars will find countless works from classical musics most studied composers, including Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, plus thousands more.

Additional material in Volume I includes 100 scores from the Barry S. Brook Centers collection of French Opera in the 17th and 18th centuries, providing access to the music and libretti of the early operas during an important period in the development of the genre.
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Volume II includes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of musics most studied compositions.

Featured composers include Michael Tippett, Hugo Wolf, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Faur, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, Carl Orff, and many others.

Classical Scores Library: Volume II also includes all 60 volumes of The Symphony 1720?1840, the largest source of 18th century symphonies comprising 550 symphonic works.
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Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works.

The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
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Classical Music in Video provides coverage in breadth and depth for classical music, and is relevant to a broad range of studies, including music history, music appreciation, music performance, analysis, and theory:

• Musical time periods from Medieval to the twenty-first century.


• Historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current recordings today.


• Performances of all forms of music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances.


• Masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.


• Documentaries profiling classical artists and their work.

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Dance in Video is the definitive video collection for the study of 20th Century concert dance, featuring the most influential performers and companies together with dozens of documentaries, interviews, and dance instruction videos. The collection provides coverage in breadth and depth for modern dance forms, and is relevant to dance history, dance analysis, dance instruction. It includes an overview of 20th Century concert dance, including the forerunners and pioneers of modern dance, covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisation; an invaluable resource as dance is an inherently visual medium.

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Opera in Video is a comprehensive collection of operatic performances covering the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. The collection contains 500 hours of video comprising 288 operatic works.
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online access to more than 575 full-length Met performances

Streaming access to more than 30 films, representing some of the top choices for Film Studies, including academy award winners and popular general release classics.

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provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases on every topic imaginable. More than 15,000 titles are available from off and on-campus via this streaming service.

American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes 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.
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Smithsonian Global Sound is the largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of world music. It currently provides streaming access to over 42,000 tracks from the Smithsonian archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa, and is growing regularly as new recordings are added. This collection has been produced in partnership with the Smithsonian
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Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, and more.

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DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.
DRAM's ever growing collection contains more than 4,000 albums' worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 42 independent labels. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records and CRI labels, which merged in 2007.

The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of music available online, offering the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, as well as jazz and world music and educational products and full liner notes. Over 75,000 tracks available on campus or at home.
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Notable historic recordings (23,000 tracks) include the likes of Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and the Modern Jazz Quartet to name a few. Soul artists like The Blackbyrds, the Staple Singers, Issac Hayes, and Albert King are also featured. On the rock n' roll side of things it features artists like Little Richard, Sam Cooke, the Soul Stirrers Lloyd Price and Creedance Clearwater Revival.
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Contemporary World Music features music from 169 countries and more than 800 labels from around the world.
Focus on contemporary genres, such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, and jazz.
Also traditional musicIndian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Many titles are encyclopedic in their breadth of coverage. For example, The Voice of the People from the Topic label, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditional music, is included in its entirety.

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Jazz Music Library provides coverage in breadth and depth for jazz music, and is essential for music history, jazz appreciation, jazz history, music performance, and African American studies:

• Definitive audio database of jazz from the early 20s to today, including all major jazz genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band music, modern jazz, and more.


• More than 14,000 distinct song titles along with links to all the various versions recorded in Jazz Music Library.


• Hundreds of distinct instrument categories.


• More than 200 distinct jazz genres and sub-genres.


• Data on tens of thousands of artists and ensembles.

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