Guides: Find Audio Recordings: Start Here

What are audio recordings?

Physical or digital record of sound that can then be played back, or reproduced.

To find songs and albums by a Band or Performer, search by Author (lastname, firstname).
Don't forget to Cite Your Sources. Audio recordings need to be cited too.
If you have a phrase you want to keep together, use quotation marks. Example: "folk singing"

Naxos Music Library
World´s largest online classical music library.
Dates of Coverage: Circa 1150 - Current (updated monthly)
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Contains tens of thousands of licensed recordings that are cross-referenced with program notes, composer biographies, glossary terms, and historical context.
Subject Matter Timeframe: Medieval - Modern
Dates of Coverage: 500 A.D. - Current

British Library Sounds
Includes music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
Poetry Archive
Recordings of poets reading their own works.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
An encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes over 35,000 tracks of world music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Dates of Coverage: 20th and 21st Centuries

Omni
Try narrowing by Resource Type: Audio Visual or Audio
Dates of Coverage: Various