Research Guides: Music Studies: Audio/Video

Streaming/Online Media

Audio

Naxos Music Library
Naxos is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 2.3 million tracks of Classical music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.

Digital Resources for Musicology
Provides links to substantial open-access projects, archives, and collections relevant to music performers, theorists, and historians.
National Jukebox
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress.

Video

OperaVision
Free live and on-demand opera streaming platform, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Recordings
Livestream and archived video recordings of concert performances. Strong focus on instrumental music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, and includes unstaged operas, oratorios, and masses.

Digital Theatre+
The database includes high definition recordings of contemporary and classical theater, as well as lesson plans, interviews, and other instructional material.
Dance Online: Dance in Video
Includes over 700 streaming videos of dance productions and documentaries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Films On Demand (Films Media Group)
Films on Demand provides full video access to thousands of video titles in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health & Medicine, Science & Mathematics, and Archival Films & Newsreels, Guidance & Counseling and many TV programs such as NBC News, PBS, BBC and more.

Physical Media in the Library

The University Library media collection is kept at the Find/Use desk on main floor and includes collections of CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes. The library also provides laptops for checkout as well as study rooms equipped with media players. Begin browsing the Library media collection here. If you can't find what you are looking for, media can often be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan or CSU+. If you need assistance locating media, please contact your librarian.

Last Updated: Feb 12, 2024 4:16 PM