Research Guides: Music: Find Audio & Video Sources

Find Audio Databases

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Largest streaming audio service including classical music, jazz, and world,music
Also contains reference resources such as a music dictionary and analyses of well-known pieces. No individual account is required but can be created to create playlists and sign into the mobile app. Mobile app includes offline listening!
Language: English
Keywords: NML
DRAM This link opens in a new window
Contains many recordings of American music genres including jazz, classical, Native American, electronic, and musical theater.
Can browse by artist, composer, label, and instrumentation.
Language: English
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Find streaming audio for world, jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk, and popular musics as well as spoken audio and nature sounds.
Content type: Sound recordings, liner notes
Create a free user account to create custom playlists and audio clips.
Language: English
Keywords: Music Online

Find Video Sources

Academic Video Online Premium This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for discovering a wide range of streaming video types from across a breadth of subject areas, from feature films to raw footage to performances.
Content type: Feature films, documentaries, performances, interviews, newsreels, primary sources
All videos allow for an unlimited number of simultaneous viewers. Videos also include searchable transcripts.
Language: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, etc.
Met Opera On Demand This link opens in a new window
Metropolitan Opera performances in streaming video and audio. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Interface allows searching by opera title or browsing by composer, performer, or title. Please note: HD streaming requires at least a 25Mbps internet speed.
Language: English, Italian, German, French, Czech, Russian
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover streaming video of opera, dance, and theatre productions, as well as concerts, arts documentaries, and master classes.
Content type: Videos
Subtitles/librettos available for some videos.
Language: English, Italian, German, French, other European languages

PBS Arts
Features classical and popular concerts as well as documentaries aired on PBS.

Borrow CDs and DVDs

The Claremont Colleges Library circulates many DVDs and CDs. To find these sources search the library catalog :

by name of musician, ensemble, or composer as AUTHOR, i.e., Ives, Charles, or
by TITLE of work, i. e., Appalachian Spring or
by SUBJECT for particular forms or genres of music, i. e. Concertos (Harpsichord with string orchestra)

THEN limit FORMAT to DVD Video or Music CD and LOCATION to The Claremont Colleges. This will limit your search to only Claremont owned videos or compact discs.

Claremont College users can request videos and CDs that the library does not own from other libraries through Resource Sharing.