Multimedia: Audio
Sound databases
- Naxos Music Librarydigital sound database - 'the world's most comprehensive collection of classical music online' - containing the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues and titles from 50 other labels; allows streamed access to over 75,000 CDs with more than 1 million tracks. Over 800 CDs are added monthly; 7 concurrent-user access
- Opera in Videofive hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries featuring some of the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses
- Freesoundcollaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, etc. released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse
- dig.ccMixterAn international music community of open-source music under Creative Commons license.
- British Library SoundsListen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sound
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Free Music Resources
- Free Music Archivean interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads
- International Music Score Library ProjectContains over 4.5 million audio recordings (including 180,000 live concerts), 4 million videos and 3 million images.
- MusopenProvides recordings, sheet music and textbooks for free.
- Open Music Archivea collaborative project to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings (mostly public domain)
- Public Domain MusicOffers public domain sheet music as well as copyrighted midi files
- Open Music LibraryAn initiative to build the worlds most comprehensive open network of digital resources for the study of music.
Contains scores, articles and journals.
Useful Links
New music books in the library
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