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American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture...
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Location: Internet
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Association for Cultural Equity Research Center
Includes sound recordings, photographs, videos, interviews, radio shows and more. Houses the Alan Lomax Archive of recorded music, dance, and spoken word.
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Location: Internet
AudioBlocks
AudioBlocks
provides access to over 100,000 downloadable music tracks, sound effects, loops, and more.
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Location: Internet
ccMixter
ccmixter
is devoted to helping you find music, which is liberally licensed under a
Creative Commons
license so you
already have permission
to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever…
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Location: Internet
Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of classical music recordings searchable by composer, artist, conductor, instrument, genre, or period.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)
Contemporary World Music is a vast collection of 50,000 music tracks.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Digital Backpack
With access to VideoBlocks, GraphicStock, and Audioblocks, users have access to thousands of downloaded video clips, images, backgrounds, sound effects and more.
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Location: Internet
DRAM Online (DRAM / New World Records)
On-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio. DRAM contains over 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels.
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Factiva (Dow Jones)
Gateway to business resources including full text periodicals, news photographs, company reports, and financial data.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Free Music Archive (FMA)
Free Music Archive provides a library of legal audio downloads.
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Location: Internet
Free-Loops.com
Free-Loops.com is a one-stop-shop for free loops and audio clip downloads covered by
Creative Commons
.
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Location: Internet
Freesound Project
Freesound is a database of
Creative Commons
licensed sounds and focusses only on sound, not songs.
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Location: Internet
Funky Remixes
Funky Remixes allows users to legally rip, remix, and share music for free. This site features hip hop, rap, rock, and electronic styled remixes. Copyright covered by
Creative Commons
.
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Location: Internet
Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection (American University)
The
Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection
contains over 1450 sound effects tracks recorded by Greg Smith. The collection is hosted by University Library at American University.
*Note:
the tracks are in a zipped mp3 format. Once you download the zip file to your computer, you will need to un-zip them. Please see the recommended programs on the Greg Smith Collection website.
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Location: Internet
Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online)
Oxford Music Online
is the access point for
Grove Music Online
and
Oxford Dictionary of Music
,
Oxford Companion to Music
, and the
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit website offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes
texts
,
audio
,
moving images
, and
software
as well as
archived web pages
.
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Location: Internet
Jamendo
Jamendo is a source for free and legal music downloads covered by
Creative Commons
licenses.
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Location: Internet
National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
National Jukebox
contains over 10,000 historical sound recordings from the Library of Congress music collections. These recordings have been made freely available in streaming format with permission from Sony Music Entertainment. Sound content includes popular music, dance music, opera, jazz, speeches, poetry and humor.
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Location: Internet
Naxos Jazz (Naxos)
Naxos Music Library Jazz offers a mixed selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz in streaming audio format.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Naxos Music Library (Naxos)
Streaming classical music, World, Folk and Chinese music. Also includes notes on musical works and biographical information on composers or artists.
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Location: Campus/Remote
OAIster (OCLC / Firstsearch)
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide.
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Location: Internet
Online Sound Recordings at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
Recordings from the American Memory project from folk music to oral history interviews.
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Location: Internet
Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances.
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Location: Campus/Remote
Public Domain Information Project (PD Info)
PD Info provides sheet music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier. Also contains royalty free music tracks. Fees for sheet music and tracks
will not
be paid for by JMU Libraries.
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Location: Internet
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JMU Libraries' Quick Search
.
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Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio...
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Location: Campus/Remote
SoundClick
SoundClick is part of the free music community and features signed and unsigned bands.
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Location: Internet
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays...
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Location: Campus/Remote
WorldCat (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ...
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Location: Campus/Remote
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