Electronic resources

About off-campus access:

SULAIR has been working towards solving incompatibility issues between the proxy access system and various commercial databases. Currently (as of March 2008):

Most databases, including Smithsonian Global Sound, Classical Music Library, African American Song, and American Song are accessible by both PC and Mac users via the proxy server set up: click here for details on setting up your proxy server

Naxos and Naxos Jazz are accessible by both PC and Mac users via the links at the bottom of this page; a separate proxy set up is not required.

DRAM is not yet accessible from off-campus locations.

e-journals | e-books | e-scores | e-recordings

e-journals

An increasing number of music journals are being made available in electronic format. These journals can be located and accessed either through Socrates, Stanford's online catalog, or by choosing the link to e-journals on the SULAIR e-resources page. This link will take you to TDNet, a database of e-journals that are available to the Stanford community. TDNet allows you to search for a particular title, browse alphabetical and subject-based lists, determine the coverage of a given title, and determine if Stanford holds a print copy of the title in addition to the electronic format.

Finding Articles in Periodicals (under Research Help) provides more detailed information on periodical indexes, TDNET, and aggregator databases that include some full-text music journals. Quick links to music-specific electronic indexes are listed on the Music Library home page.

e-books

Several e-book services available to Stanford users include books on music (and some music scores). The following services may be of interest to music researchers:

Dissertations and theses (both at Stanford and elsewhere);
ebrary (requires ebrary reader; installation is free) (tens of thousands of full-text books, sheet-music titles, maps, reports, and other documents);
The online books page (an index of books freely readable on the world wide web)

Also, SULAIR's Humanities Digital Information Services project includes a growing number of resources of interest to researchers in the humanities; at present, Early English books online includes some music books and scores in facsimile, ca. 1475-1700. The HDIS also links to sites for American, British, and German poetry, including works of Schiller, Goethe, and Brecht.

e-scores

A selection of e-scores are available for viewing and downloading from the Byron Hoyt Sheet Music site, located under the ebrary main page. This and other ebrary sites require downloading the free ebrary reader.

The RLG Cultural Materials database contains a large collection of digitized sheet music, as well as other music- and performing arts-related primary study material in high-quality digital form.

MuseData is a database project sponsored by Stanford's Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH). A MuseData account allows you to download printable sheet music or other musical data related to the sheet music such as MIDI files.

e-recordings

new! American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. Currently containing over 12,00 tracks, the database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

new! Smithsonian Global Sound presents a virtual encyclopedia of the world's music. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Naxos Music Library provides online access to over 5000 CDs, including the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogs, plus selected titles from other labels.

Naxos Music Library Jazz includes titles from the Naxos Jazz and the Fantasy Jazz catalogs.

SULAIR subscriptions to the Naxos services are streamed at a "near-CD quality" 64K rate. For off-site listening, a 20K service is available to users who use dial-up internet service.

Classical Music Library (aka, "Classical.com") provides access to numerous labels including EMI, Vox, and Hyperion.

Stanford faculty can create custom listening lists in both Naxos and Classical.com. Click here for instructions.

The Database of Recorded American Music ("DRAM") offers a diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records; other labels currently represented in the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable.

African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

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