Performing Arts

The 92nd Street Y in NYC has been recording on-site performances since the 1940's. Its new website, makes 1,000 of those recordings available to stream. Plans are in the works to live stream upcoming events and to add as many of the organization's 10,000 archived recordings to the internet as possible. Check back often for new content.

Berklee Shares is an OpenCourseWare portal produced by Berklee College of Music. This website offers, free of charge, a collection of individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni.

Selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife, and environmental sounds.

This website includes thousands of pieces of music which are searchable by voicing, accompaniment, form, and sacred season. Site also includes texts and translations as well as information about composers.

Digital Librarian is a helpful website that links to online archives of scores and sheet music around the world.

The goal of this site is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers (living or otherwise) who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. Note: this site adheres to Canadian, not US copyright.

Internet Archive partnered with etree.org to create this collection of freely available, strictly non-commercial, music recordings.

The LoC provides access to a portion of its audio collections through the Recorded Sound Reference Center's web page, the American Memory site, The Performing Arts Encyclopedia and the American Folklife Center pages

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution (SI). As part of the SI's mission to honor America's history, Folkways aims to document, preserve, and disseminate sound.

Offering both free and for-pay music, Spotify allows users to create playlists and manage music to suit their needs and purposes.

This online thematic catalog includes about 35,000 musical incipits from three sets: classical, folksong, and Renaissance. Themes can be searched by pitch, interval, scale degree, and contour, and can be located at the beginning or anywhere within the incipit.

This site contains more than 150 royalty-free instrumental tracks intended for use as background music in YouTube videos.