Research Subject Guides: Music: Get Started with Listening

Music : Get Started with Listening

Library Streaming Music Resources

Scholar OneSearch, the library's catalog and discovery system, includes individual tracks and albums

[Boston and online view (Opens in new window)]
[Oakland view (Opens in new window)] (includes scores and recordings at the F. W. Olin Library on Northeastern's Oakland, CA campus]

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press)
Mostly documentary and journalistic videos.
Many films include closed captions, searchable transcripts and clipping functionality for accessibility and teaching support. Limited public performance rights include classroom showings and extracurricular viewing as long as no admission is charged.
Digital Theatre+
Some musicals are included in this collection of theater performance videos.
Google Chrome is the preferred browser for Digital Theatre+.
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
Diverse American music, including roots/folk/jazz and more.
Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
This streaming site has separate collections of contemporary, jazz, classical, and Smithsonian Global Sound
Set up a personal account to be able to create clips, bookmarks and playlists for sharing with a class or with others in the Northeastern community.
Naxos Music Library
Over 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming. Access is limited to 15 users at a time.
Smithsonian Global Sound
in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Set up a personal account to be able to create clips, bookmarks and playlists for sharing with a class or with others in the Northeastern community.

Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University) (Opens in new window)
International in scope, many rare audio and video files
CHARM (Arts and Humanities Research Council) (Opens in new window)
Database of historical classical sound recordings.
Discography of American Music (UC Santa Barbara) (Opens in new window)
Data on recordings from the 78rpm era, with performers, dates, catalog and matrix numbers, and more, from Victor, Decca, Columbia, Zenophone and more. A partnership with the Library of Congress National Jukebox Project makes some pre-1923 recordings available online.
Free Music Archive (Opens in new window)
A major online discography and a library of ex-copyright recordings