MUSIC ON YOUR PHONE
UR students, faculty, and staff can stream audio tracks through their smart phones or Blackberries! Click here to learn how to access tracks from Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, American Song, and Smithsonian Global Sound.
Streaming Audio (for UR students, faculty, and staff)
Parsons Music Library subscribes to streaming audio services that can be accessed, both on and off campus, by anyone with a UR net ID and password.
- Classical Music Library
Over 50,000 audio tracks, from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde - Jazz Music Library
Historical and current jazz recordings - American Song
Historical American music in a variety of genres - Smithsonian Global Sound
Virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Contemporary World Music
Contemporary music from all regions of every continent - DRAM
Recordings from significant independent record labels
Streaming Audio (free access for all)
These sites are believed to be offering content legally.
- Art of the StatesAudio and accompanying essays for a wide range of music from across the United States, focusing on new, unusual, and lesser-known repertoire.
- CBC Radio 2: Concerts on DemandOver 800 free concerts, in all genres, from the Canadian Broadcasting Company
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization ProjectA digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Eduard Alekseyev Fieldwork Collection of the Musical Culture of Yakutia, 1969-1990Original field recordings by ethnomusicologist Eduard Yefimovich Alekseyev, made in various regions in Russia, and primarily represent the musical culture of the Yakut (Sakha) peoples, as well of Crimean Tartar and Ukrainian peoples.
- New Music at Carnegie HallListen to new compositions that have been commissioned by Carnegie Hall.
- Radio 365Free Internet radio offering music in many genres
- RadioIOFree streaming music in many genres
- radiOMConcerts and interviews from the archives of Other Minds, a global new music community.
- Sound of the WorldFrom BBC World Service. Charlie Gillett hosts a program of contemporary and classic tracks from around the world.
- Sounds of the MetOver 200 historical recordings of singers who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera.
- Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American RecordingsThe Arhoolie Foundation's digital collection of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican-American recordings, issued on 78 rpm phonograph discs during the first half of the 20th century.
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