Audio recordings (CDs, records, etc.)

Complete List
• Abair Leat
  
  Audio-visual course in Irish conversation. The website includes texts of songs and of the Mass, with audio-recordings.
• American song
  
  Online music audio collection of songs from America's past, including "songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys... songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Aria database
  
  A collection of information about opera and operatic arias and provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. ... []
• Audio drama
  
  To include more than 300 dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of The L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company and recorded specifically for online listening. Presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American playwrights, originally commissioned plays, and docudramas. ... []
• Center for Jewish History digital collections
  
  Searchable database of the digital collections of the Center for Jewish History in New York City, a partnership of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Materials include finding aids, images, audio files of interviews, maps and plans, plus a wide variety of documents including books, legal papers, memoirs and scrapbooks. ... []
• Chaucer, life and times
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1851 .P75 1995
  Includes the complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and glossary, critical commentary, historical information, extensive graphics, and audio clips in Middle English. ... []
• Classical music in video
  
  Searchable database containing performances and masterclasses captured on video in all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. ... []
• Classical music library
  
  Online music audio collection "includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera."--About. ... []
• Contemporary world music
  
  Online music audio collection containing "genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more."--Homepage. ... []
• Doegen Records Web Project
  
  A digital archive of Irish dialect recordings made during 1928-31, comprising a collection of early Irish language recordings of folktales, songs and other material from all 32 counties of Ireland. The project is developed by the Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Observatory. ... []
• DRAM : database of recorded American music
  
  "on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays ... contains more than 3,000 albums worth of recordings from ... independent labels ... [including] American music recordings by New World Records."--About DRAM. ... []
• Easy Irish
  
  Online course in spoken Irish. Introductory conversation course provided by RTÉ.
• Jack Kerouac romnibus
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3521 .E735 Z633 1995
  Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video; complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music. ... []
• Jazz music library
  
  Online music audio collection of jazz recordings from thousands of artists around the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. Useful for study and teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation. ... []
• Medici.tv
  
  Streaming video of 600+ performances of orchestral and chamber music, operas, and more, from leading festivals and music venues.
• Music online
  
  Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content: African American music reference; American song; Classical music in video; Classical music library; Classical music reference library; Classical scores library; Contemporary world music; Dance in video; Garland encyclopedia of world music online; Jazz music library; Opera in video; and Smithsonian global sound for libraries. ... []
• National jukebox
  
  Includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. ... []
• Naxos music library
  
  Streaming access to thousands of classical music CDs, with access to the catalogs of various music labels. Includes jazz, film music, and opera libretti and synopses. Search by composer, work, label, and keywords. ... []
• Naxos Music Library. Jazz
  
  Streaming access to recordings of jazz legends and contemporary jazz from thousands of CDs. Search by artist, composer, work, and keywords. ... []
• Naxos spoken word library
  
  Online collection of classic audiobook material. Coverage includes literary classics and items with educational themes.
• Presidential recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson
  
  Consists of three series: War on Poverty, 1964 (edited by Guian A. McKee); Civil Rights, 1964 (edited by Kent B. Germany); and Vietnam, 1964-65 (edited by Marc J. Selverstone and David G. Coleman). The entire edition is fully searchable, accessible via a timeline view, and each transcript page includes the original audio and introductory essay providing historical context. ... []
• Screen Lex
  
  A pronunciation guide for film and TV students.
• Smithsonian global sound for libraries
  
  Online music audio collection "produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, ... a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions."--Homepage. ... []
• Walt Whitman
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3200 .F97 1997
  Includes full text of New York University Press' scholarly ed. of The collected writings of Walt Whitman, a large selection of manuscripts from the Library of Congress' Feinberg and Thomas B. Harned collections, New York Public Library's Oscar Lion and Berg collections, facsimiles of editions of Leaves of grass published during Whitman's lifetime, Two rivulets, Drum taps, Sequel to drum taps, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording of Whitman's voice, and contemporary reviews of Whitmans's work. ... []
• WolfgangsVault.com :
  
  One of the finest sources of free streaming concert recordings available, documenting live performances by many of rock's biggest and most successful acts. ... []