Resource Guides: Music: Recordings and musical scores

Recordings

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings This link opens in a new window
Audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.
Includes: World Musical Instruments: Case Studies has been sourced from UCLA's World Musical Instruments collection which features a curated selection of musical instruments from 10 different areas across the world. This allows you to see the musical instruments, read about them and hear them be performed by master musicians. Each case study features musical instruments that can be found within the primary source recordings.
DRAM This link opens in a new window
On-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio in classical, jazz, rock, opera, and folk. Includes cover artwork, tracklists, music notes, instrumentation, composers and performers.
Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others.

Music Online Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of classical scores covering all major musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I and V.