Advanced Classical Music Research Guide

Over 23,500 titles available to everyone; additional content licensed in the U.K. only. Includes 970 recordings from the Decca West Africa yellow label series.

From archive.org, “an online public library of live recordings available for royalty-free, no-cost public downloads.”

Also from archive.org, this library of digital recordings available for download includes music and spoken-word files.

Historical recordings from the Library of Congress and other contributing libraries and archives.

High-quality, legal downloads curated by WFMU (Seattle) and collaborating organizations.

Collaborative database of sounds available for re-use according to Creative Commons guidelines.

Remixes and samples available under Creative Commons licenses.