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	MUSIC IN VIDEO
	Dance in Video With Dance in Video, Alexander Street Press captures dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to your computer screen through online streaming video—including 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20^th century. Dance as an art form is ephemeral—there are rarely scripts to study, no commonly used notation to analyze—making a live performance vital for study and research. Dance in Video provides the visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis. Students and researchers can at last discover and revisit great performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and directors who have perfected the craft.
	Opera in Video Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The result is a dynamic and powerful resource for performers, researchers, and students. The database lets users bookmark specific scenes, acts, arias—even a single recitative passage—and then include the links in papers and course reserves. Instructors and students can annotate and share these personally selected segments during classroom lectures or teaching assignments. With these and other powerful Web tools, Opera in Video will be an essential new resource for study in this area.
	MUSIC LISTENING
	Contemporary World Music Contemporary World Music takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples and cultures. The database contains 50,000 tracks that you can organize and share using personal play lists and course folders, plus liner notes both in facsimile and as rekeyed, searchable text. The breadth of this collection is impressive, incorporating contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku is also featured to round out the offerings and allow you to see the progression that music has made through the ages.
	Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® 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.
	Classical Music Library 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.
	African American Music With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression represented, African American Music brings 50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars. It’s the first online resource to document the history of African American music in the form of an online music 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.
	American Song American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It will allow people to hear and feel the music from our past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. There are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests. There are hymns, funny songs, college songs, sea shanties, shape note songs, and songs about topics as diverse as New York and electricity.
	MUSIC REFERENCE
	Classical Music Reference Library Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which have never before been available in electronic form. The database delivers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century, with definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists. In addition to the Baker's resources, there are biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, critical texts, full text from other major reference works, biographical information, score and lyric excerpts, musical and notational terms, and photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles.
	The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online will be the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia has been the preeminent reference work for research in this area and a favorite of libraries everywhere. It has won numerous awards, including the Dartmouth Medal, the New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book award, and Library Journal’s award as one of the 50 Reference Sources for the Millennium. Now for the first time, the entire set of 10 print volumes is available as a single, integrated online database, with additional features from Alexander Street Press.
	Classical Scores Library Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both databases can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score. Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Within seconds, beginning music students can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15^th century to the 21^st century—without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs.
	African American Music Reference From early slave spirituals to 20th century movements revolving around jazz, blues, and gospel, African American music has played an integral role in the development of music worldwide. African American Music Reference is the first comprehensive reference database to chronicle this rich history of African American music through 1970. It brings together for the first time the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies, and bibliographies—together with songsheets, images, and other print resources.
	MUSIC PACKAGES
	NEW! Get access to all the online music databases from Alexander Street Press at one affordable, flat-rate subscription price Today Music Online brings you more than 160,000 tracks of music more than 25,000 pages of reference material; both collections are constantly growing. Our new music platform will allow you to link from one product to another, providing an unsurpassed multimedia research opportunity. Users can also tailor the package to suit their needs by choosing only reference materials, or only listening databases.
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