Music
This guide provides selected resources available to you through UCalgary Library and beyond
Streaming Platforms
- Music Online: Classical Music LibraryCollection of 60,000-plus tracks, including recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hännsler Classic, Vox and many more.
- Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World MusicA collection of ten volumes of writing about global music with accompanying audio for volumes 1-9. Vol. 1: Africa ; Vol. 2: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean ; Vol. 3: The United States and Canada ; Vol. 4: Southeast Asia ; Vol. 5: South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent ; Vol. 6: The Middle East ; Vol. 7: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea ; Vol. 8: Europe ; Vol. 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands ; Vol. 10: The World’s Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools
- Smithsonian Global Soundproduced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 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.
- Jazz Music LibraryThe largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
- Popular Music LibraryA wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Other Sound Resources
- Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound RecordingsVirtual Gramophone is a multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound, providing an overview of the 78-rpm era in Canada. The database contains information for 78-rpm and cylinder recordings released in Canada from 1900 to 1950, as well as foreign recordings featuring Canadian artists and/or compositions.
- British Library SoundsAlthough currently unavailable as a result of a recent cyber attack, British Library Sounds presents recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. While the full archives online are unavailable, the British Library Sound Archive previous playlists for NTS can currently be accessed at https://www.nts.live/shows/british-library-sound-archive. and their Soundcloud is at https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library
- Deutsche Grammophon YouTube ChannelRecordings of performances of classical music by Deutsche Grammophon. It includes musicians of the past 100 years: Abbado, Argerich, Barenboim, Bernstein, Boulez, Domingo, Dudamel, Gilels, Horowitz, Karajan, Kleiber, Mutter, Netrebko, Salonen, Zimerman, etc.
- Global Jukebox by Alan LomaxThe Global Jukebox explores connections between families of expressive style. One can travel the world of song, dance and language through a Wheel Chart and a Map view.
- Ethnographic Sound Archives OnlineEthnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
- Last Updated: Sep 3, 2024 2:56 PM
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