Online Scores
Classical Scores Library, in 4 volumes, contains over 10,000 classical music scores and manuscripts.
The comprehensive resource provides access to full scores, study scores, vocal scores, and piano reductions. Repertoire represented is across all genres from Palestrina to Bach, Beethoven to Stravinsky. It also contains autograph facsimiles of 17th century French opera.
Streaming Music
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive classical music library online.
Limited to 10 concurrent usersNML offers access to over 1.6 million tracks from more than 112,000 albums and over 750 labels, with hundreds of new CDs added weekly.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries provides a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Users may also create, view, and share your own custom playlists in a free account available for registration set up within the database.
Medieval to the twenty-first century
Classical Music in Video provides coverage in a broad range of music studies from medieval to the 21st Century.
It contains streamed videos of performances, masterclasses and interviews, and documentaries profiling classical artists.
Opera performances on streaming video, including staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Once complete, Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.