Primary & Secondary Sources

These databases require a Fresno State account for access.

Smithsonian Global Sound Includes more than 35,000 tracks in the categories of American folk, blues, bluegrass, old time country, American Indian, world, jazz, spoken word & sounds and children’s music. It includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.

• Library of Congress Digital Collections -- Audio Recordings
  Online recordings at the Library of Congress include music along with interviews, oral histories, and more.
• National Jukebox:  Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
  Historical sound recordings from 1901 to 1925.
• Digital Public Library of America
  DPLA includes digitized material from many libraries and archives in the US. To find recordings, search by keyword, then choose "Type: sound."
• Europeana Music
  Recordings, sheet music, and other music items from the collections of libraries across Europe.
• British Library Sounds
  Spoken word, theater, oral histories, nature recordings, jazz, classical, and traditional music.
• USCB Cylinder Audio Archive
  A collection of digitized cylinder recordings available for streaming from the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
  Digital audio files of cylinders from Syracuse University's Belfer Archive
• Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive
  Recordings of folk music from around the world, along with photographs, videos, and more.
• GlobalJukebox
  Thousands of recordings of traditional music, browsable by geography.
• radiOM.org
  Sponsored by Other Minds, includes selections from broadcasts of "KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995), and concerts and talks produced by Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005)."

• IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
  Over half a million scores of public domain music, mostly older editions of Western classical music.
• ChoralWiki/CPDL
  Focuses on choral and vocal music, some newer editions.
• Band Music PDF Library
  Scores and parts for band music that is in the public domain.
• Early Music Online
  Digitized copies of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, from holdings at the British Library.
• Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
  Index to Medieval music manuscripts, with links in many cases to digitized copies.
• New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
  Digitized scores and parts from the orchestra's performance library, showing notations made by conductors and performers, along with concert programs and other documents.
• BGSU Sheet Music Collection
  Public domain sheet music digitized by Bowling Green State University and available through JSTOR.
• UCLA Contemporary Music Score Collection
  Digital, open access scores from the UCLA Music Library.