Music: Videos

This multidisciplinary database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy,® Emmy,® and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. The embeddable video player with keyword-searchable transcripts allows users to browse and refine with intuitive facets and then create and share custom clips and playlists.

Full-length documentaries, popular films, and streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Music and Dance Online delivers the largest, most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars, and patrons of the arts. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.

Currently includes over 11 million audio tracks*, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and over 450,000 pages of reference and periodicals. Music and Dance Online contains the complete contents of:
*Dance in Video
*Music Online: African American Music Reference
*Music Online: American Music (Music Online: Premium)
*Music Online: Classical Music in Video (Music Online Premium)
*Music Online: Classical Music Library (Music Online Premium)
*Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
*Music Online: Classical Performance in Video
*Music Online: Classical Scores
*Music Online: Contemporary World Music (Music Online Premium)
*Music Online: Jazz Music Library
*Music Online: Listening
*Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
*Music Online: Music Video Collection
*Music Online: Opera in Video
*Music Online: Popular Music Library
*Music Online: Reference
*Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
*Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Classical Music in Video collection will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses—approximately 1,500 of all forms, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances by artists and ensembles such as the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Opera, Sir Geraint Evans, Thomas Quasthoff, Maxim Vengerov, Emanuel Ax, Simon Carrington, Bernard Haitink, Evelyn Glennie, Ives Ensemble, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Callithumpian Consort, and more.

Music Online: Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

Music Video Collection is the largest and most comprehensive video resource for the study of music. Users experience music through thousands of performances, masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews.