Images, Audio, and Videos - Music History (MUS-2313 | MUS-2315 | MUS-2317 | MUS-3223)

Recommended Image, Audio, and Video Resources

JSTOR
JSTOR offers journals, ebooks, and primary source collections, allowing researchers to retrieve high-resolution scanned images as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The resources archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

MIMO: Musical Instrument Museum Online
Welcome to the world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections. Our database now contains the records of 101,863 instruments.

Music Division Collections and the New York Public Library
The Music Division is one of the world's preeminent music collections--documenting the art of music in all its diversity - classical and opera as well as the whole spectrum of popular music including spirituals, ragtime, jazz, musical theater, film, rock and world music. While the division contains many scores and manuscripts from centuries past, its curatorial mandate is an activist one, placing major emphasis on capturing the creative output of contemporary composers.
RId'IM: Répertoire International d'Iconograpie Musicale (International Repertoire of Musical Iconography)
The RId'IM database contains descriptions of visual objects that depict music-making, musical instruments, and similar related objects. Where possible, there are links to online images of the artwork.

Classical Music Library
Search for and listen to over a million classical music tracks from medieval times to the present.

Global Jukebox
The Global Jukebox (GJB) is an ever-expanding database hosted by the Association for Cultural Equity which presents traditional folk, indigenous, and popular songs from cultures around the world. Thousands of examples of the world's music, dance, and other expressive behavior are available in this free, non-commercial, educational space.
- Requires an account to use - creating an account is free.

IMSLP Sound Recordings
Browse or search the library of audio recordings by composer or artist.

Internet Archive Audio
Free online library of recordings, many of which are available for free download.
Live Music Archive
A project of the Internet Archive mostly includes videos uploaded by popular artists to share their music.
National Jukebox | Library of Congress
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.
Recorded Sound Archives | Florida Atantic University
The RSA holds over 100,000 recordings of various types, all of which have been donated to the Wimberly Library by individuals and organizations committed to the preservation of sound recordings as cultural and historic artifacts.

Smithsonian Institute Collections Search Center
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major collections from our museums, archives, libraries, and research units. There are 13.5 million catalog records relating to areas for Art & Design, History & Culture, and Science & Technology with over 3.1 million images, videos, audio files, podcasts, blog posts and electronic journals.

Spotify
There are millions of tracks and episodes on Spotify from all genres of music.
- Requires an account to use - creating an account is free.
Soundcloud
SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.
- Requires an account to use - creating an account is free.
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
This searchable database features over 10,000 recordings made from the late 1800s to early 1900s, including popular songs, vaudeville acts, classical and operatic music, comedic monologues, ethnic and foreign recordings, speeches and readings.
YouTube
You can search YouTube to find video recordings of performances of composer's works.
- Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tPb4JFgmw
- Another Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tPb4JFgmw

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Ambrose Video
Contains educational films in many subject areas.
AVON
Contains thousands of videos, including documentaries, educational films, and news clips spanning the widest range of subject areas.

AVON | Music History Videos
Music history videos in AVON.
*Note that if a video says "Sample," it is part of a collection in AVON that is not part of Texas Wesleyan's collections.

Digital Stage
View performances broadcast from Millennium Stages at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Artists from around the world showcase their performances.

Ethnographic Video for Instruction & Analysis
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors. Funded since 2001 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with significant contributions from Indiana University and the University of Michigan, the Project has been developed through the joint efforts of ethnographic scholars, archivists, librarians, technologists, and legal experts.

Opera Vision
Watch live streams as the operas themselves unfold in the opera house. View your favourite performances, subtitled, on demand. OperaVision brings together 29 partners from 17 countries and invites you to travel and discover the diversity of opera from wherever you want, whenever you want.

Score Follower New Music Resource | YouTube Channel
Score Follower's YouTube strives to provide access to contemporary music for all. Through our activities, we also aim to strengthen, diversify, and connect our musical community. Our dedication to others in the field motivates our commitment to procuring legally obtained scores and recordings.
- To learn more visit their website.