Streaming Video (Library Resources)
- Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new windowFull-length performances from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, both video (1970s-present) and audio (1935-present).
- Medici.tv This link opens in a new windowConcerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, educational programs, and master classes from around the world. Includes some live events.
- Music Online: Classical Performance in Video This link opens in a new windowConcerts, opera and ballet performances, masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews.
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowTheatre, musicals, opera, and ballet (primarily recent British and American productions), plus documentaries and teaching resources.
Streaming Audio (Library Resources)
- Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowCommercial recordings of classical music from the medieval period to present day
- DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new windowRecordings from independent record labels of scholarly interest, including New World Records and CRI.
- Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new windowRecordings of world's many musical and aural traditions, illuminating the history and literature of nations and peoples from every continent.
- Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new windowRecordings focusing on music from America's past, including includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Includes the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
- Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowJazz recordings from a variety of subgenres, such as swing, bop, post-bop, Latin jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde, contemporary jazz, and more.
- Music Online: Popular Music Library This link opens in a new windowPopular music genres from around the world, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and more.
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowRecordings from around the world, including reggae, worldbeat, traditional, world fusion, Balkan jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
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
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