Research Subject Guides: Music: Streaming Audio and Video Sites

Library Streaming Music Resources

Our Streaming Media Guide lists all streaming media resources in all subjects available through the library.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
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+ This link opens in a new window
Some musicals are included in this collection of theater performance videos.
Google Chrome is the preferred browser for Digital Theatre+.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Documentary videos, often with a social justice focus.
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
Diverse American music, including roots/folk/jazz and more.
Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
Feature films, including biopics.
Instructors may request access via the request form in Kanopy.
If you live in Massachusetts and wish to use Kanopy outside of academic use, the Boston Public Library (BPL) offers Kanopy for free, up to 4 films a month. First BPL Kanopy-related info .
Music Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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.

Other Streaming Media Sites

AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) A major online discography and a library of ex-copyright recordings
Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives BSO Archives is open to researchers on an appointment basis. Their collection documents the BSO and its many facets, including BSO, Pops, Tanglewood, Tanglewood Music Center, Symphony Hall, and the Boston Music Hall. Key digital resources can be found at: archives.bso.org (BSO’s performance history database that contains details for more than 32,000 performances by the BSO, Pops, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and the Tanglewood Music Center); and at collections.bso.org (digital collections of photographs, program books, and some audio recordings of Tanglewood Music Center and Festival of Contemporary Music recordings). Inquiries can be addressed to the general archives email --- archives@bso.org
Free Music Archive A major online discography and a library of ex-copyright recordings
Monterey Jazz Festival- Digital Collections The festival's archive, preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound,contains recordings of live festival performances.
Youtube