Music & Dance Online for Public Libraries delivers a large and diverse catalog of music content encompassing a wide range of content formats, including scores, reference, and high-definition audio and video. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners and covers hundreds of genres from alternative rock to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias.
Key Benefits
Comprehensive Content
Provides multiformat content with audio tracks, video, scores, and pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals.
Broad-Ranging Materials
Include video of live performances, audio recordings, instructional films, previously unpublished works from acclaimed playwrights, performance posters and playbills, video interviews, and choreography not seen since the time of its original performance.
Authoritative, High-Quality Partnerships
Content from leading publishers and organizations including Universal Music Group, Smithsonian Folkways, and the George Balanchine Foundation.
Customer Resources
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Music & Dance Online for Public Libraries Includes the Following Subscriptions
Music Online: Listening Collection
Music Online: Listening Collection provides institutions streaming access to millions of tracks across classical, jazz, world, American, popular, and historic recordings, supporting the teaching and research of music with broad global coverage and ongoing monthly growth.
Read moreMusic Online: Classical Scores Library Collection
Reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon and discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. Music Online: Classical Scores Library Collection brings together more than 2 million+ pages of musical scores spanning major genres and time periods from the Medieval Period to the 21st century.
Read moreDance Online Collection
Dance Online Collection supports all aspects of dance scholarship, combining academic study with video performances and instructional materials. Featuring video performances, instructional materials, interviews, books, periodicals, and extensive archival materials across dance genres, these materials support focused explorations into dance history, technique, and cultural context.
Read moreIncluded Content / Coverage
Provides in-copyright historic and contemporary audio and video performances, scores, music reference materials, archival music primary sources, and periodicals. Audio content includes recordings across a wide range of genres and styles. Video content includes live performances, instructional films, video interviews, and choreography documentation, alongside materials that support research, study, and performance. Available content may differ by region.
Audio tracks
Video performances
Pages of musical scores
Pages of music reference materials
Fast Facts
Content Format
Multimedia
Includes content from...
Music Online: Listening for Public Libraries
Highlighted Subjects
Music
Dance
Type of Content
High-definition audio and video
Scores
Reference
Archival primary sources
Periodicals
Platform
Access on the ProQuest video platform
Territorial Rights
Worldwide
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