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

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

UNKNOWN items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Media

TASKS

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