Music Streaming & Audiobooks

Access over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.

• Subject area(s):
• Communication & Theater
• History
• Political Science

IMSLP is a repository of music scores in the public domain. It offers access to thousands of scores and musical recordings. IMSLP users can also exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions.

• Subject area(s):
• Music

LibriVox makes public domain books available for free in audio format. Many LibriVox-recorded titles are also available through Project Gutenberg Audio Books.

• Subject area(s):
• General Topics

Lit2Go is a free online collection of childrens' stories and poems in MP3 format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified.

• Subject area(s):
• Education
• Language & Literature

Met Opera on Demand delivers instant access to more than 500 New York Metropolitan Opera performances, including more than 70 past performances from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series as well as more than 350 classic full-length video and audio performances.

• Subject area(s):
• Music

Alexander Street Press' Music Online offers thousands of streaming audio recordings, scores, music reference works, and videos of musicians and performers. The database can be searched and browsed by subject, historical event, genre, people, cultural group, place, time period, and ensemble.

• Subject area(s):
• Music

Naxos Music Library contains the music of over 18,000 CDs, covering rock, pop, adult contemporary, classical, jazz, folk, and world music genres. The music is streamed to your computer in CD-quality audio. NML also includes valuable information, including artist and composer biographies, liner notes, opera synopses, and more.

• Subject area(s):
• Music

Listen to classic novels, plays, and poetry from medieval times to the twentieth century. All works are read by professional actors and actresses. Browse 21 categories, from Children's Classics, Classic Fiction, to Shakespeare's Plays, Music Education, and more. Many texts are available to follow on-screen or can be printed out.

• Subject area(s):
• Language & Literature
• General Topics

A multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October, 1955. Oyez also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some justices.

• Subject area(s):
• History
• Political Science