The Classical Music in Video collection contains hundreds of hours of classical music performances and master classes. It includes major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances by renowned artists and ensembles.
Films on Demand »Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand provides instant access to an educational cross-curricular digital library on a wide range of subjects from academic to life-skills content. It offers online access to over 6 000 streaming videos from the following categories:
Business & Economics; Careers & Job Search; Family & Consumer Sciences; Science & Mathematics; Health & Medicine; Guidance & Counseling; Humanities & Social Sciences; Technical Education. Each video is divided in segments which allow users to show only the segments which are relevant to the topic presented. All programming includes Canadian public performance rights for classroom use. Videos are provided by Films Media Group and include productions by the following: Films for the Humanities, Cambridge Educational, BBC, CBS and PBS. Approximately 500 titles are added each year.
Opera in Video »Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Contains 250 of important opera performances captured on video through staged productions, as well interviews and documentaries.
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Naxos Music Library »Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Offers online and remote access for simultaneous users to over 87,000 tracks of music. Entire works or single tracks provide access to various genres of music. Scholarly notes are available. Naxos has acquired the Canadian label Analekta which specializes in Canadian music.
Offers online and remote access for simultaneous users to over 9,800 musical compositions. Entire works or single tracks provide access to various genres of music. Scholarly notes are available.
Listen to thousands of archival recordings by Canadian composers.
(You will need to create yourself a free account in order to get access to the content)
https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/82125
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs.
These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.
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