Music: Sound Recordings

Stop by the 6th floor and check our two new turntables. We have an Audio-Technica LP- 60 and a TEAC LP-R550 with USB and CD recording capability. 

This is a subscription site offered through the Houston Cole Library. Naxos offers a large selection of classical, jazz, and world music with updates and additions added monthly. If you are off campus, use your ID number and last name to log-in.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Freely accesible website.

"Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. They have long held the fascination of collectors and have presented challenges for playback and preservation by archives and collectors alike. 

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of California at Santa Barbara Libraries have created a digital collection of over 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online."

Records and CDs are located on the 6th floor against the wall facing the Media Lab. Use the catalog to look for music and limit your search to "sound recordings" beside the "format" dropdown box. The Media Lab also has two turntables for listening to records. 

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

Freely accessible website. 

"Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress"

http://freemusicarchive.org/

This is a freely accessible web site supported by WFMU out of Jersey City, NJ, is devoted to sharing legal downloads. The site includes wax cylinder recordings, dubstep, and spoken word downloads. One of the strengths of this site is that you are able to search and download music by genre which makes this a very easily accessible site.