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. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones or speakers. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies will enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields.
African American Song
With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression represented, African American Song 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 listening service. Using a simple but powerful interface, users identify the music and performances they want to hear and then click to listen through speakers or headphones.
Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a 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 over the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music through their headphones.