ABOUT
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings gives comprehensive coverage to the history of Canadian contributions to the gramophone repertory. The repertories it covers are diverse. They include dance music of the 1920s, Quebeçois recordings of the 20s and 30s, popular music from New Brunswick, military music in Berliner recordings sold in Montreal in the first decade of the twentieth century, and other identifiable collections. The items consist predominately of 78s 50,000 items), with some cylinders (7,000). Listeners can select either RealAudio or MP3 files (downloadable). The database can be searched by voicing, instrumentation and many other parameters.
RDF
TYPE
HOMEPAGE
visit the homepage of the project
EXTENT
UNKNOWN items
LICENSE
Open Access
SUBJECT
MediaTASKS
purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:
music listening
SCOPE
items are gathered by
Geographical
,Temporal
AUDIENCE
amateurs
MUSIC FEATURES
for each item is described:
Descriptive Metadata
FEATURES AND SERVICES
the resource provides:
Browsing
,Data Dump
,Human Consumption
,Interoperable format
,Playable
,Query Interface