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British Library Sounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a British Library service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. Anyone with web access can use the service to search, browse and listen to 40,000 digitised recordings. Playback and download of an additional 22,000 recordings is available to Athens or Shibboleth users in UK higher and further education. The service was originally launched with funding by the Jisc. There are over 14,000 hours of rarely heard audio material available online. Images and transcripts are also available for some recordings to further enrich the content. Recordings may be searched by keywords or browsed by collection types, dates, languages, performer names and subjects. Several collections can be browsed using a map interface. ==Content currently available== The British Library Sounds website covers a broad range of content: * Accents and dialects of spoken English, including extracts from the Survey of English Dialects, the Millennium Memory Bank of personal oral histories, the Berliner Lautarchiv of British World War I prisoners, and a 1940s University College London phonetics research collection. * Arts, literature and performance includes Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – Talks, 1981–92 and early spoken-word recordings (including Florence Nightingale, Christabel Pankhurst, Winston Churchill and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); and the St Mary-le-Bow public debates. * Classical music: recordings of Canonical Classical Repertoire 1926-1956 (including all recordings held from the repertoire of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms on 78rpm shellac discs together with early long-playing vinyl discs); and Dutch String Quartet, the London Trio and the Philharmonic Quartet and other chamber music performers. * Environment and nature, including hundreds of examples of British wildlife sounds, historic wildlife recordings and amphibians sounds. * Jazz and popular music has interviews of recordings of British jazz musicians and the complete set of programmes from arts broadcaster Touch Radio. * Oral history including Holocaust Survivors' Centre interviews, the collection of oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans, BBC Listening Project collection, Oral History of British Science and collections created by National Life Stories. * Sound recording history including scans of rare early record company catalogues, more than 400 images of historic playback equipment and 100 interviews charting the history of sound recording. * World and traditional music: a wide range of musical styles from around the world. These range from the Decca Records West Africa "Yellow Label" Series and music of India collected by ethnomusicologist Rolf Killius to Traditional Music in England, a vast collection of 20,000 recordings of popular ballads, children's skipping songs, customs, music hall, soldiers' songs folk tales and interviews. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Library Sounds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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