InfoGuides: Media Collections: List of Streaming Audio Databases

Streaming Music & Audio Databases

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains 300 dramatic works in streaming audio from the L.A. Theatre Works. Includes significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) This link opens in a new window
Provides recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings (formerly Composers Recordings Inc./CRI) and other important labels. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.
Music Online This link opens in a new window
Music Online allows users cross search music databases published by Alexander Street Press. These databases include: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Opera in Video.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Provides streaming access to both standard and rare repertoires of music. Included are classical, world, jazz, and pop/rock music. Additional resources include libretti, pronunciation guide, and glossary.
Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
Offers a large selection of works by jazz legends and contemporary artists. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented. The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 200 labels, and include the catalog of Blue Note Records, Warner Jazz, EMI, Fantasy and others. note: Access limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Pro Sound Effects Library This link opens in a new window
Contains over 60,000 professional sound effects for high definition media production. Includes Sonopedia, Hybrid, and Liminal Void collections. Liminal Void collection purchased with funds from the John F. and Kathleen M. Kehoe Film and Video Studies Endowment.
Speech Accent Archive This link opens in a new window
Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Provides transcriptions of Native and non-native speakers of English reading the same paragraph. Produced at George Mason University.