Provides access to streaming videos of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Contains hours of classical music performances and masterclasses covering all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances, chamber music, oratorio and solo performances, and interviews with master teachers worldwide, all captured on video.

Offers streaming access to over 84,000 classical music CDs and over one million tracks, both standard and rare repertoire.

Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It 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.

Over 1,000 titles of digitized sheet music by and relating to African Americans, from the 1820s to about 1920.

A digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings. Cylinders were the first commercially-available recordings. Music as well as comedy and vaudeville routines are included.

The International Music Score Library Project shares public domain scores and recordings. Can be searched or browsed by composer, composer's nationality, genre, time period, or user-input melody.

Thousands of recordings made between 1910-1929 made available for streaming free of charge from the Library of Congress.