LibGuides: Dance: Recordings & Videos

Online Music

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive classical music library online.
Limited to 10 concurrent usersNML offers access to over 1.6 million tracks from more than 112,000 albums and over 750 labels, with hundreds of new CDs added weekly.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries provides a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. 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. Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Users may also create, view, and share your own custom playlists in a free account available for registration set up within the database.
Classical Music in Video
Good for: Videos of performances and experts in classical music from medieval to the 21st century.
Contains: Video performances and documentaries.
Opera in Video
Opera performances on streaming video, including staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Once complete, Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Medici.tv
Offers streaming classical music videos that include over 1,600 films as well as many events broadcast live, with replays available for several weeks after the live events.
Content includes music festivals (such as the Verbier, Salzburg, and Lucerne), concerts from baroque through contemporary music (Berlin, New York Philharmonic orchestras, the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall recitals, etc.), operas (including Paris and La Scala), ballets, workshops and master classes with renowned artists (from Juilliard, Heidelberg and elsewhere), competitions (the Tchaikovsky from Moscow), documentaries, artist portraits, and archived performances.

Finding Recordings Using Quick Search

Try a keyword search for the composer's last name and type of composition (example: enter "Bach" and "Suites")
Use the limiters to the right to narrow the format to "Audio"
Note the call number and location

The UNLV Libraries also carry dance related DVDs that can be found by searching the catalog. They range from videos of performances to documentaries, interviews to pedagogical videos. These videos can also be viewed online through our many streaming resources. For more information on our streaming databases, please visit our Online Movies & Streaming Video Guide.

Dance Online: Dance in Video
This is a database containing streaming video of dozens of documentaries, interviews, dance instruction, and performances in the world of dance. Includes ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
Ethnomusicology
Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today.

Kanopy
A streaming video services that provides access to thousands of titles in the arts, including numerous dance videos.
Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.
Music Online: Classical Performance in Video
Music Online: Classical Performance in Video is a comprehensive video resource for the study of classical music. The database includes 1,600 performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, as well as masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews.

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