LibGuides: Music Research Guide: Streaming Audio & Video

Streaming Music & Audio

Database of Recorded American Music [DRAM]
Audio recordings of American music, including classical, folk, jazz, Native American, early rock, musical theater, electronic, and beyond.
Ethnographic Sound Archives
Over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographersÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ metadata. Includes the following collections: Hugh Tracey (3356): southern and central Africa. Raymond Clausen (2487): Oceania. Louis Sarno (1909): Central African Republic. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (801): South Asia. Mark Slobin (336): Afghanistan. Walter Garwick (192): American folk music/U.S.A. South Negro Folklore Collection.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Free downloads of thousands of classical music scores that are in the public domain.
Internet Archive Audio
Free online library of recordings, many of which are available for free download.
Music and Performing Arts
Music and Performing Arts from Alexander Street Press provides access to four collections of streaming audio (American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound) from one search screen.
Music Online: American Music
A history database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 865 albums, equaling 14,632 tracks.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
This audio database provides classical music with some of the world's finest orchestras and soloists.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, including genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music from the early 1920s to today with thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels.
Music Online: Listening
Music Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that includes audio, video, and some classical music scores. It includes over 910,000 albums and is fully searchable, with browsing available by collection and broad subject categories.
Naxos Jazz
Contains audio recordings of jazz, including hundreds of jazz artists and several jazz recording labels.
Naxos Music Library
Contains audio recordings that cover a wide range of classical music from the Naxos recording label and many other labels.

Streaming Video

Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
Streaming video database of music, dance, interviews, cultural programming, and more from the archives of Banyan Productions in Trinidad & Tobago.
Digital Concert Hall
From the Berlin Philharmonic: live broadcasts, videos, and a large archive of recordings. Create a user account for access.
Medici.TV
Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Medici.TV Jazz
Streaming video of classical music that includes concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master classes, artist profiles, and educational films. Several concerts are broadcast live each year.
Met Opera on Demand
From Alexander Street Press.
Naxos Video Library
This streaming video database provides a large collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Opera in Video
From Alexander Street Press.

Mobile apps for music

Apps for the following streaming services are available for both iOS and Android:

Digital Concert Hall

Download the app from the appropriate store.
If you do not have a user account, create one here.

Naxos Music Library (NML) or Naxos Jazz (NML Jazz)

Download the app from the appropriate store.
If you are logging in from off campus, be sure to use MIT's VPN service.
If you have a Student Playlist account, your email address and password will also act as your login credentials for the NML mobile apps.
If you do not have a Student Playlist account, sign up here for NML or here for NML Jazz.
Complete the registration process by clicking the activation link in your email.
The email address and password you assign will act as your login credentials for the NML mobile apps.

Please note that under certain rare circumstances, it can take up to 15 minutes for your registration to be completed.

Music Research Guide: Streaming Audio & Video

Introduction

Streaming Music & Audio

Streaming Video

Mobile apps for music