Research Guides: Music Education: Recordings

SU Recording Collections

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of classical, jazz, world, and other music recordings.
Naxos Music Library - Jazz This link opens in a new window
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Online jazz recording collection.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of full-length Metropolitan Opera performances

Mobile Apps

Naxos is available for mobile devices. More information on the library's Mobile Apps guide.

Physical Collection

Music CDs are located on the lower level of Smith Library.

Open Access Music and Sound Recordings

National Jukebox The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
Global Jukebox "The Global Jukebox is a growing space to connect with our deep heritage through the expressive arts of singing, dancing, and conversing from around the world."
Internet Archive Music and Arts Collection The audio Music collection features nearly 600 virtual record labels found in the Netlabels collection, the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the Other Minds collection, and the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th Century found in the 78 RPM collection.
Archival Sound Recordings Digital access to selected recordings from the British Library Sound Archive. Researchers can search all recordings on the site, listen to recordings where copyright permits.
Classical Connect Free classical music site
Early Music Recordings | Early Music America An archive compiled through user submissions.
Early Music Recordings | Yale University A list maintained by librarians at Yale University Libraries.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project A collection of historical music available for streaming and download from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection The festival's archive - preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound - contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
NPR Music National Public Radio interviews, profiles, videos, tiny desk concerts, and other performances.
Turning the Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women | NPR "This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and present (2017) is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record. It rethinks popular music to put women at the center." Most songs can be found on Naxos, Naxos Jazz, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, or AllMusic.