Librarian
Research/IT Desk
Contact:
Contact the Reference Librarians online
reference@carleton.edu
reference@carleton.edu
507-222-4264
Looking for recordings?
There are many options for listening to sound recordings, far too many to list comprehensively here. If the kind of music you need to listen to is not represented in this list, please feel free to email me or make an appointment so I can help you find recordings you can use.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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An online collection of recordings, mostly Western art music. Each piece includes notes on the work and biographical information about the composers and artists. - Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
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Includes audio files from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings comprising a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
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Thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study. - Library of Congress Performing Arts Audio Recording Collections
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Audio recordings from the digital collections of the Library of Congress. These collections contain musical selections ranging from the beginnings of American recorded sound up through the mid-Twentieth Century including folk, jazz, big band, blues, gospel music, and more. - Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
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On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to over 6,000 recordings of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound. - National Jukebox
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Includes thousands of recordings from the collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment. - Association for Cultural Equity : Sound Recordings
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Over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Alan Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.
Looking for sheet music?
- Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music
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A digitized collection of approximately 30,000 titles of historic American sheet music collected at Baylor University. - The Sheet Music Consortium
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Search over 20 online sheet music collections with this search engine from UCLA. - African American Sheet Music - Brown UniversityThe sheet music, all from the Brown University Sheet Music collection and primarily vocal music of American imprint, dates from the 18th century to the present day, with the largest concentration of titles in the period 1840-1950.
Looking for something that’s not here?
Email me or make an appointment with me and we'll see if we can find it together.
