Music

Naxos Music Library is the library's most comprehensive streaming audio database. NML has nearly 125,000 albums and almost 1.9 million tracks of primarily classical music. Includes labels like Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical. You can create your own playlists or use NML's free app on your mobile device -- just sign up for an account.

Streaming video database of Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra concerts (some live-streaming), artist interviews, and documentaries. Limit of three simultaneous users.

More than 500 full-length Met performances, including stunning HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. Note: the current subscription allows 5 users at a time to access the database.

Streaming video database of concert orchestral, chamber music, and choral ensembles as well as solo performances. Some video recordings go back to the 1950s. Footage includes interviews with Copland, Reich, Cage, and others, performances by Ozawa, Solti, Bernstein. Great primary source for researching conductors and musicians. CMV also includes a fine series of masterclasses from the Masterclass Media Foundation. You can create your own playlists and edit video clips right in the browser.

Scholarly database of streamed recordings that focus on American composers, performers, and ensembles. DRAM features CD-quality audio, liner notes, and labels such as New World Records, Composers Recordings, and Cedille Records.

Offers streaming audio access to almost 60,000 jazz- and blues-centric albums. Listen to Coltrane, Fitzgerald, Ellington, Getz, Armstrong, Basie, Holiday, and hundreds more.

Music streaming database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Includes multiple genres, performers, ensembles, and historic events like the Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

Music streaming database of classical music. Search by title, instrument, performer, ensemble, time period, publisher, composer, and genre.

Music streaming database includes genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Search by title, instrument, performer, ensemble, publisher, people, cultural groups, genre, and places.

Audiovisual collection includes music from multiple genres, time periods, and areas of the world. Search by title, instrument, performer, ensemble, publisher, people, cultural groups, genre, and places.

Music streaming database includes major genres like alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more. Search by title, instrument, performer, ensemble, publisher, people, and genre.

Music streaming database of world musical and aural traditions. Search by title, instrument, performer, ensemble, publisher, people, cultural groups, genre, and places. Developed in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.