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Jewish music on the Internet.

Article Excerpt
This quarterly column offers reviews of music resources available in digital media or on the Internet. This includes CD-ROM products, World Wide Web sites, online subscription services and databases, and music-related software of any kind. Media consisting of exclusively video or sound recordings are reviewed in the columns under those categories, while online journals and their aggregators are covered in the "New Periodicals" column. All Web sites were accessed on 26 May 2004.

Content-rich Web sites, searchable databases, and digital online exhibits have recently given a tremendous boost to online resources in Jewish music research. Resources made available from individuals are growing, and significant Jewish music collections in a variety of institutions are being digitized and are now accessible online. There are several major areas of growth: online databases which give access to score and sound recording collections held by institutions; digitized primary sources such as scores, bibliographies, and full-text articles; and general learning tools. In addition, specialty Web sites allow for access to information about currently available materials and activities in Jewish music.

DATABASES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive. Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania. http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/freedman/index.cfm?nav=freedman

Located in the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Freedman Jewish Music Archive comprises over eighteen hundred recordings, primarily in Hebrew and Yiddish. An online searchable database accessing sound recordings in this archive includes Hebrew- and Yiddish-language characters. In order to read those characters, one must use a browser that can display Unicode characters, such as Mozilla, Internet Explorer 5 and higher, or Netscape 7 and higher. The database will find individual tracks on a recording. All known artists, composers, or titles in the entire collection of LPs, 78s, and compact discs can be searched. The database is searched by keyword in transliterated Hebrew or...

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