Research Guides: Music Resources (UNH Durham): Audio &amp; Video

Streaming Audio and Video Databases

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
Contains audio files CDs. DRAM includes compositions of classical music, folk music, opera, jazz, country music, early rhythm and blues, musical theater, experimental music, electronic music, early rock and Native American music from the United States. Dates of coverage: 19th century-current
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window
Brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Partners with some of the worlds most creative filmmakers and respected distributors, offering tertiary institutions access to an ever-growing library of videos across diverse content areas like architecture, teacher education, health and safety, culture and politics in media, health studies and more.
Music Online: Listening This link opens in a new window
Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, and ensembles, meaning students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries.

Databases include: American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly complete audio access to CDs and tracks of primarily classical music, as well as some jazz and world/folk music Includes music notes, cover art, libretti from operas, and composer biographies.

Free Audio Collections

Internet Archive: Audio Archive
The Internet Archive's audio collection includes recordings of many contemporary composers as well as popular songs digitized from early 20th century 78 RPM records.
The Global Jukebox
The Global Jukebox is presented as a free, non-commercial, educational place for everybody to explore expressive patterns in their own cultural-geographic and diasporic settings and alongside others’. By inviting familiarity with many kinds of vocalizing, musicking, moving, and talking, the Global Jukebox hopes to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage and to advance cultural equity.
Library of Congress: The National Jukebox
The National Jukebox makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge, including recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

Sound Effects

Freesound
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share.
Partners in Rhyme
General, public domain, and royalty free sound effects.
Sound Bible
SoundBible.com offers free and royalty free sound effects and clips for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend sound warriors. In wav or mp3 format.

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