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Digital Music Library System

Support for Variations was discontinued in December 2016. For more information, please see this news item. For information on Avalon Media System, an open source solution for providing access to audio and video collections aimed at libraries and archives, please visit avalonmediasystem.org
Variations provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property. In addition to access tools, Variations also includes analysis and annotation tools useful in music teaching and learning. With Variations, institutions can digitize recordings and scores from their own collections and provide those materials to their students and faculty in support of teaching, learning, and research.

Learn about Variations by watching a webinar recording. Or try out Variations.

Variations is a Java-based client-server software system. For more information on the system or to download the software, see the links below.

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For support questions and general discussion of the Variations system, please join and post to the variations-discuss mailing list.

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Development and release of this software is supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this software or its documentation do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-9909068. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The Variations system was developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program.


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