Research Guides
Music Guide: Audio & Video
UW Archives
- UW Ethnomusicology ArchivesHoldings of more than 50,000 items include films and field recordings documenting international, national, and regional music traditions.
Classical Streaming Audio
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowStreaming audio. Labels represented include EMI, Warner Music, and Deutsche Grammaphone.
- Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) This link opens in a new windowFocus on contemporary American music. Labels currently represented include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowStreaming audio of the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels.
Additional Genres Streaming Audio
- American Music This link opens in a new windowAudio tracks of songs illustrating American history, including political campaigns, Civil Rights, and war protests. (Music Online)
- Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowContemporary World Music contains music from every continent. Genres represented include reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings This link opens in a new windowPresenting content from across the globe, this resource features audio field recordings and related materials such as interviews, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera.
- Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowStreaming audio of jazz covering a variety of artists, ensembles, labels, and period.
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowStreaming audio of classic and contemporay jazz. Includes the catalogs of Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy and others.
- Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowCollection of traditional, folk and world music.
- More Streaming AudioSee the full list of streaming audio options available at the Libraries
Physical Media
To find physical media in the UW Libraries Catalog:
- Search the catalog via keyword or title search
- Refine your search by resource type: Audio CD's, LP Records, DVD Videos, Video Cassettes, Audio Cassettes
To browse the Music Library media collection: materials are held in our closed stacks. Book a browsing appointment here
Listening equipment is also available in our downstairs closed stacks. Please make a browsing appointment or contact the library to listen to media materials on site.
Streaming Video
- Dance in Video This link opens in a new windowProductions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational, and modern concert dance. (Dance Online; Volumes I and II)
- Medici.tv This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of classical music performances including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, and educational films.
- Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of Metropolitan Opera productions.
- Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of opera productions featuring a variety of houses, performers, and conductors.
- More Streaming VideoSee the full list of streaming video options available at the UW Libraries