At a glance
Music Library
Streaming media
Databases are restricted to Stanford users.
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American Song | American roots music and pre-1960 popular songs | What's new | Help |
Classical Music Library | Western classical music | What's new | Help |
Contemporary World Music | Genres from all regions around the globe | What's new | Help |
DRAM | Contemporary American classical music | What's new | Help |
Jazz Music Library | Jazz | What's new | Help |
Naxos Music Library Jazz | Jazz | What's new | Help |
Naxos Music Library | Western classical music | What's new | Help |
Smithsonian Global Sound | World music, including Smithsonian Folkways releases | What's new | Help |
Alexander Street Press | Search all Alex Press databases | ||
Video
Medici.tv | Live and archived performances, documentaries and artist profiles | What's new | Help |
Naxos Video Library | Concerts, operas, ballets, and documentaries | Help | |
Dance in Video | Performances, coaching sessions, interviews, and more | What's new | Help |
Docuseek2 | Documentary films; a small but growing number about music | What's new | Help |
Kanopy | Includes several hundred music films on various topics and cultures | What's new |
Free online audio resources
Stanford connections
Christopher Costanza performs the cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Huw Morgan performs the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach
Riverwalk Jazz - streaming jazz and blues radio programs
Sounds from Europe:
All of Bach (Bach from the Netherlands. a new performance each week, forever!)
Europeana Sounds (Sounds from museums, archives and libraries throughout Europe)
Opera Platform (free streaming operas, launched in 2015)
Historical music recordings
The National Jukebox (Library of Congress--see all online sound recording collections at the Library of Congress)
The Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Belfer Cylinders (Syracuse University)
The Virtual Gramophone (National Library of Canada)
La Phonobase (in French)
Stradivari Quartet/Iowa String Quartet (University of Iowa)
Downloads for sampling, mashing, podcasting
Free Music Archive
CC mixter
Opsound
Jamendo
Free Sound Effects
Spoken words
American Leaders Speak (recordings from World War 1 and the 1920 election at the Library of Congress)
U.S. History Out Loud
Supreme Court of the United States Audio Archives
The Poetry Archive
Internet Poetry Archive (University of North Carolina)
Miscellany
Historic Naval Sound & Video
Bug Bytes (digitized insect sounds)
Macaulay Library audio archive of biodiversity
Internet Archive - Audio Archive
Western Soundscape Archive (field recording archive)