The Spirituals Database

title

The Spirituals Database

homepage

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description

The searchable Spirituals Database provides searchable information on over 1,600 tracks from recordings of spirituals written for solo voice. Developed and maintained by Randye Jones, it explores the impact of classically trained singers on this Afrocentric repertory. Historical background on the repertory and biographical information on performers are included. Examples come from compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs and audio cassettes, and demonstration recordings. Tracks are avialable on Spotify.

creator or project

The Spirituals Database

type

Repository

purpose

Research

audience

performers

researchers

task or research field

music history

musicology

performance

technical features

Shares data in open data formats

Provides user-friendly search interfaces

Offers a Web API

Offers data export or dump

Offers playable music records

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

example resource

here

type of collected resources

Audio

Track

audio

scope of the collection

Genre

Geographical

category of data collected

Media

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<10000

data formats

jpg

Audio

json

audio

rdf

xml

data license

Copyright


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-592244