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Streaming Media: Performing Arts
A guide to performing arts streaming media resources available through U-M Library
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Head, Music Library
Corinne Forstot-Burke
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3239 Moore Building
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085
734.764.2512
Librarian for Music, Theatre and Dance
Jason Imbesi
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3239 Moore Building
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085
734.764.2512
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Streaming Video
Digital Theatre Plus
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Provides streaming video of theatre productions and related educational resources.
OntheBoards.tv
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High-quality films of full-length performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, and music.
Medici.tv
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A video streaming channel for classical music, including operas, ballets, master classes, and live events
Naxos Video Library
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A streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Met Opera on Demand
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Provides streaming access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.
Music and Performing Arts (Alexander Street Press)
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A cross-searchable portal of audio and video products from Alexander Street Press.
Classical Music in Video
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A collection of 1100 videos of classical music performances and masterclasses.
Dance in Video
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Contains over 900 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies.
Opera in Video
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Contains 300 opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Streaming Audio
Naxos Music Library
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Offers streaming audio of more than a million tracks of classical music covering all time periods.
Music and Performing Arts (Alexander Street Press)
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A cross-searchable portal of audio and video products from Alexander Street Press.
Smithsonian Global Sound
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Streaming audio of 50,000 tracks of ethnic music from around the world, including the catalog of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
American Music
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Provides streaming access to more than 600,000 audio tracks of American music.
Classical Music Library
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Offers a multi-label collection of music recordings, featuring performances from independent and major labels.
DRAM
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Provides CD-quality streaming access to more than 4000 albums from 42 independent record labels.
Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
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Audio recordings and field materials from ethnomusicologists documenting musical traditions from around the world.
Jazz Music Library
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Streaming audio of over 130,000 recordings of every jazz genre and time period, featuring jazz artists from around the world.
BabelScores: Contemporary Music Online
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Online library of digitized scores and streamed audio recordings of contemporary music by international composers.
Additional Streaming Resources
Alexander Street Video
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Thousands of streaming videos including documentaries, news and historical events, opera, dance and drama performances.
Docuseek
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Streaming video collection of independent, social-issue and environmental films.
Kanopy Streaming Video
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Offers over 9,000 documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors, accessible by unlimited users.
Swank Digital Campus
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Offers streaming of feature films and documentaries produced by major Hollywood and independent studios.
Feature Films for Education
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Streaming video of feature films covering literary adaptations, classics, environment and social issues, and foreign films.
Filmakers Library Online
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Video streaming of over 1000 documentary films previously distributed by Filmakers Library.
World Cinema Collection
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Streaming video including films from the silent era, mid-20th century masterpieces, and contemporary films from around the world.
New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to present
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Modern independently-distributed full-length feature films and short films, presented at major film festivals.
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