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Music and Dance Online


Music and Dance Online delivers the largest, most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars, and patrons of the arts. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.

Music and Dance Online resides on Alexander Street's Multimedia Platform, search.alexanderstreet.com. For more information, see the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform LibGuide. Music and Dance Online video collections can also be accessed on the Alexander Street Video Platform.

For more information about Music and Dance Online, navigate to the Content Page.


Finding and Sharing Content on Music and Dance Online

How to Find and Share Content

Visit the Alexander Street Multimedia Platform Guide for more information on how to search, share, create clips, or use LTI in a learning management system (LMS). 

Search and browse Alexander Street's Music Online to find music from Canada, including folk and Indigenous songs. We explore Music Online collections by geography, search and filter for Scores, and view breadth of content for a specific composer. Duration: 26 minutes

How to Create an Exam Playlist for Music Online: Listening

This video and PDF show you how to create an audio clip, add tracks to a playlist, hide the metadata for the playlist so it can be used for exams, and share the playlist with students. Duration: 4 minutes, 15 seconds