Streaming Video (Library Resources)
- Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new windowStream full-length opera performances from the New York Metropolitan Opera. This database contains videos of both recent and classic performances (1970s-present), as well as radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. (Metropolitan Opera)
- Medici.tv This link opens in a new windowStream videos of concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, educational programs, and master classes. In addition to the on-demand library, this database also offers some live streaming of classical music concerts and festivals from around the world. (Medici.tv)
- Music Online: Classical Performance in Video This link opens in a new windowWatch opera and ballet performances, as well as masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews. (Alexander Street Press)
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowWatch streaming videos of theatre, musicals, opera, and ballet (primarily recent British and American productions), plus documentaries and teaching resources. (Digital Theatre+)
Music for Projects
Want music for a video, podcast, or other project that you will share beyond our campus? Then you need audio that is free of copyright restrictions, which rules out most commercial recordings. The resources below can be useful, if you read the fine print.
- Creative Commons: Use CC Search to find media material that you can share, use, and remix
- Free Music Archive: High-quality, legal audio downloads directed by the radio station WFMU.
- YouTube Audio Library: A YouTube channel with free downloadable music and sound effects
Streaming Audio (Library Resources)
- Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowStream audio recordings of classical music from the medieval period to present day. (Alexander Street Press)
- Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowStream jazz recordings from a variety of subgenres, such as vocal jazz, swing, hard-bop, piano jazz, contemporary jazz, bop, post-bop, Latin jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde, and more. Thousands of jazz artists and ensembles are represented in this database. (Alexander Street Press)
- Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new windowStream audio recordings that focus on music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. (Alexander Street Press)
- Music Online: Popular Music Library This link opens in a new windowStream a variety of popular music from around the world, including tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and more. (Alexander Street Press)
- Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new windowStream audio recordings of world's many musical and aural traditions. This database is useful for those studying music history, world music, or ethnomusicology. The content of this database illuminates the history and literature of nations and peoples from every continent. (Alexander Street Press)
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowStream audio recordings from around the world. Genres include reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. (Alexander Street Press)
Streaming Audio (Free Web Resources)
- National JukeboxThe Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.
- Arabic 78 CollectionA small sample of Harvard University's collection of Arab and Arab-American music spanning the first half of the 20th century
