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Howard B. Waltz Music Library

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Audio

Audio recordings that can be used in presentations and papers can be hard to find due to copyright laws and because they are not normally indexed like other print material. This guide offers hints and tips to help you find many different kinds of audio recordings.

Music Online: Listening (Alexander Street)
Collection of Classical music records featuring music from the earliest times to the present.
Naxos Music Library
Comprehensive streaming audio database for classical repertoire.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Streaming audio.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (Alexander Street)
This collection is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, providing access to a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online (Alexander Street)
Over 2,000 hours of historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers metadata, for the study of music in its cultural context.
Great 78 Project

Jamendo
Free music downloads & streaming from thousands of independent artists.
Noisetrade
A global online audio and book direct-to-fan distribution platform.
Soundcloud
An online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio.

American Memory
Digital record of American history and creativity.

American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
5000+ full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and more.
American Presidency Project
Includes a small collection of historical presidential audio recordings.
History Channel Speeches
Speeches by political leaders, sports figures and other cultural personalities worldwide.
History Politics Out Loud
A searchable audio archive of significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century.
The OYEZ Project
Online recordings of significant Supreme Court oral arguments.
SoJust
Speeches on social justice.
Top 100 Speeches
Great Speeches of the 20th Century
Famous Political Speeches

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection (Alexander Street)
More than 300 works from the L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company.

BBC Radio
Current and some archived or Listen Again audio.
NPR Member Stations
List of NPR member stations

OneDrive AudioBooks
Browse and borrow from a selection of eBooks and audiobooks across a range of subjects