PRODUCT OVERVIEW
African American Song brings
50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars,
including jazz, blues, gospel and other forms of African American musical
expression. It's the first online resource to document the history of
African American music in the form of an online listening service. Users
search using a powerful interface, identify the music and performances
they want to hear, and click to listen through speakers or headphones.
Classical Music Library is an ever-growing,
fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished
classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can
listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of
supplementary reference information. Unlike other resources on the Web, Classical
Music Library is the only audio service developed exclusively with the needs of
librarians in mind. It’s also the only dedicated library resource offering music
licensed from major labels. Users browse, search, click and then listen to the music over
the Internet through their headphones.
Smithsonian Global Sound®
is a virtual
encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides
educators, students and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online
resources that support the creation, continuity and preservation of diverse musical forms.
The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of
music, spoken word and natural and human-made sounds.
Note: Previewers may need to configure proxy
servers to prepare them to handle requests. Additionally, firewalls will need to have port
81 open to receive MP3 streams (from Macintosh and Netscape users) and port 1755 open for
Windows media streams (Windows-Internet Explorer users).
