subscribe to this pageA comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products subscribed to by Penn:
- African American Music Reference
- American Song
- Classical Music Library
- Jazz Online
- Contemporary World Music
- The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
African American Music and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries will be added to this cross-search platform in the summer of 2009.
Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.
Over 75,000 sound-recording tracks from the Naxos label for listening over the Web. This resource has certain software and hardware requirements.
A web-based music recording service recordings that includes the catalog of the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label as well as the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, and Paredon labels, among others. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
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A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other labels. DRAM offers on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. Currently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue 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, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
ACCESSING DRAM: To access DRAM, either select "Log In" from the main page or go directly to an album or track. You'll be presented with a "Where Are You From" page. You should see "University of Pennsylvania". If you don't, contact us.
You'll see a gray button at the top of the page. Select this and then several white "Shibboleth" pages may float by or you may need to click them (depending on what browser or type of computer you are using). You should then be able to stream.
USING DRAM: You must have QuickTime 6.5.2 or higher in order to access DRAM smoothly - although some users report it works best with QuickTime 7.0 (particularly if you're on a PC). If QuickTime is associated with iTunes, you may run into difficulty and may need to disassociate the two. Additional troubleshooting instructions for QuickTime are at: http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/_html/about/troubleshooting.html
RIGHTS: You will see also for some items that the rights have not been cleared (for example, http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/Identifier/80249). In some cases, it looks like you can play the track but then it will skip through. The "play" button is supposed to be grayed out. The is working to clear all rights. If you need any of these tracks, please contact the Electronic Acquisitions Department and we'll work with to get the tracks for you.
Over 35,000 commercial sound-recording tracks for listening over the Web.
Online music listening service presenting audio history of African American music, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, and other forms of African-American musical expression. The collection will eventually include 50,000 music tracks, many of them rare or never-before-published.
When complete, the collection will contain recordings by more than 2,300 performers spanning more than a hundred years including Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, and Memphis Minnie, and more.
This first release offers access to over 16,000 track from Document Records--the worlds largest collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, and country recordings. From the earliest recordings of Afro-American music made in the late 19th century (including the Fisk Jubilee Singers, recorded at the turn of the century for Victor Records) to performances of the mid-1970s, in most instances the full recorded works of each artist are presented.
Eventually, African American Song will also deliver online access to the Alan Lomax Collection, a set of international field recordings by folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the Jelly Roll Morton series (complete Library of Congress recordings), the Lead Belly series, and great artists and ensembles such as Son House, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Irma Thomas, Bessie Jones, Etta Baker, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.