Library Guides: MUSIC: Subject Guide: Watch & Listen

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Resources for finding recordings and other media, including
- Streaming audio databases for listening to recordings
- Streaming video databases for documentaries, performances, and other programs on music topics
- How to search the catalog by type of material

Stream classical music (and more) with this library database:

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 122,340 CDs with more than 1,800,700 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.

Find videos of performances as well as documentaries and programs on music topics:

Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, curriculum-focused video subscription providing unlimited access to thousands of videos.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Raugust Library has recordings on CD as well as DVDs of performances, documentaries, and many films.

If you would like to see if Raugust Library has a specific recording or film, use Advanced Search in the catalog.

1. Click the radio button for UJ Libraries (to limit to only items we own)

2. Enter in the composer and/or the title of the piece into the first search bar

3. Change the Material Type to "Sound recordings" or if you're looking for film, "Video/Film"