How to find library audio/visual resources
UBC Library's music collection offers significant audio/visual resources across various formats: streaming, LP, CD, DVD, BluRay, VHS.
Library subscription streaming resources are listed below.
Summon, the library's catalogue, is always a helpful starting point to find specific resources.
Note that Summon, while extensive, is not connected to everything UBC Library owns.
The following related research guides provide instruction on how to locate library film and LP format resources.
- Film - Finding and Using Library Research GuideUBC Library provides access to many films that are available on DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, and streaming platforms.The term Film is used broadly and includes movies, documentaries, television, commercials, educational videos, music videos, and animation.
- Sound Recordings Library Research GuideAn institutional guide specifically serving to help you search in our collection LP and CD recordings.
Subscription Audio/Visual Streaming Resources (A-Z)
- American Music This link opens in a new windowAudio streaming database focusing on the history of American life.
- Berliner-Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall This link opens in a new windowThe Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall is a streaming service offering the great conductors and soloists of our time in performance, more than 40 live broadcasts in high-definition every season, hundreds of archived concerts covering six decades, interviews and concert introductions, as well as exciting documentaries and artist portraits.
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowCollection of 60,000-plus tracks, including recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more.
- Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowStreaming database offering musical genres from every continent.
- DRAM This link opens in a new windowDRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.
- Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA) This link opens in a new windowDigital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
- Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new windowStreaming ethnographic video database. Features the work of many influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
- Medici TVThe largest audio-visual catalogue of classical music with 1,200 programs (concerts, archives, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, educational films and artist profiles).
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library.
- Naxos Music Library - Jazz (NMLJ) This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library - Jazz (NMLJ) offers a selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz.
- Naxos Music Library World This link opens in a new windowA streaming music database that includes the complete Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as well as holdings from Sony, Arc and Naxos World; representing over 1,500 cultural groups and 150 countries.
- Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowThe Opera in Video collection currently contains 174 videos, equaling 488 hours.
- Popular Music Library This link opens in a new windowAudio streaming database presenting pop genres from around the world: alternative, country, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks, and more.
- Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowAudio streaming encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Open Access Audio/Visual Streaming Resources (A-Z)
If you have a favourite Open Access audio/visual concert database for classical music to recommend, please share with me at kevin.madill@ubc.ca.
- ARTE.tv ConcertARTE.tv Concert offers live streaming and past recorded video concerts of classical, pop, rock, jazz and world music.
- Cité de la Musique ParisThe Cité de la Musique is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. This freely available audio/visual website captures their concerts, interviews, and documentaries.
- Minnesota Public Radio: free classical concertsRegularly updated list of free international online audio/visual concerts.