ABOUT

The CHARM project based at Royal Holloway College, University of London, sponsored a wide array of projects related to investigating music history entirely through recordings. The 5,000 recordings available here, which were carefully provided today to researchers under the auspices of Kings College, London. They are available in a lossless format (FLAC). Among the main categories are "house conductors", "Cortot discoveries", and "Musicians of Britain and Ireland". Recently 2,000 sides of 78 rpm records from the Kings Sound Archive have been added to the pool.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

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Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<100000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Media

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

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musicology

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music listening

SCOPE

not applicable

AUDIENCE

amateurs

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researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Contour or Shape

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Descriptive Metadata

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Timbre

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

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Human Consumption

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Interoperable format

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Playable

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Query Interface