LibGuides: Music Resources for Graduate Students: Recordings

Databases

Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
Browse an online collection of classical music, operas and ballets
Metropolitan Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
View streaming performances from 575 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming videos of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to classical music online
Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to jazz music online
Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Find audio and video spanning all time periods from hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles
Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to musical sound recordings and MIDI files, as well as program notes, composer biographies, and images
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to streaming folk and related music
Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new window
Search for and listen to streaming music providing coverage of American music
Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new window
Search videos and 11,000 discs covering a wide spectrum of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to world music of all types
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of historic field recordings from around the world, including supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata.

Digital

British Library Sounds
Association for Cultural Equity
Founded by Alan Lomax.
EVIA Digital Archive: Ethnographic Video for Instruction & Analysis
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan, the mission of the EVIA Project is "to preserve ethnographic field video created by scholars as part of their research" with rich metadata.
Global Jukebox
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
Project from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, the Arhoolie Foundation, and the UCLA Digital Library.
IAMIC (International Association of Music Centres)
National Jukebox
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress.
CCWA (Contemporary Composers Web Archive)
The Sonic Dictionary
Database created and hosted at Duke University, with a collection of over 800 sound clips created by students.
Sounding Out!
Literary sound studies
BBC Sound Effects Library
Library of Congress Online Audio Collections
Freesound
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
Provoke! Digital Sound Studies
LUA Project
A cultural arts based “Mexilachian” music project that blends original and traditional music of Mexico, Appalachia, and the Atlantic basin.