Music: Online Resources

A searchable collection of historical songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, cowboys, and many other figures from the American past.

Contains classical music recordings covering music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.

Music from around the world, including reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and many more genres.

Contains 3,000 albums from 26 independent labels, representing folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic, art, jazz and world musics.

This resource provides access to over 165000 tracks (11000 CDs) - the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels such as Cedille, Chandos, Klavier, New Albion, and Opera Rara.

The largest collection of traditional, folk and world music available for streaming on the Internet, drawing from the Smithsonian Folkways collection, the International Library of African Music, and the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology.

Video resource for classical music: performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews. (Music Online)

Streaming video of classical music performances including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, and educational films.

Streaming-video performances in contemporary dance, theater, and music.

Provides online access to 200,000 pages of scores, including those by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and more. Access to volumes 1, 3, and 4 ended August 31, 2021.

Contemporary scores, recordings and composer notes.