Located on this page are links to sound and video resources which the university subscribes, as well as links to free digital resources. You can also search for Scores, DVDs, CDs, and LPs on the university catalog. For information about copyright and plagiarism check out Online Sources & Copyright.
These sites provide free access to audio/visual recordings and sheet music:
Contains historic collections of recordings and sheet music digitized by the Library of Congress
Free recordings are available from the non-profit organization.
The International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library houses a large collection of scores and recordings.
This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.
2124 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses.
Free Music Archive (FMA), founded in 2009 by radio station WFMU, offers free access to open licensed, original music.
Provided by the Internet Archive, this collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'.
A selection of sites which offer free recordings or live streaming of music performances:
PBS Great Performances The Kennedy Center
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra NY Philharmonic
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Konserthuset Stockholm
Göteborgs Symfoniker Jazz at Lincoln Center