Music History

Select the Stetson Collections Only option to search for items accessible through the duPont-Ball Library.

Provides on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music. It currently provides streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added. The subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users. 

The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music. Includes American Music, Classical Music, World Music, Jazz, and more.

The world's largest online classical music library. Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Includes 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.

A streaming video platform with thousands of documentaries, educational films and news reels. Content from Films on Demand can be shown in the classroom setting and linked in your Canvas course.

Kanopy includes documentaries and feature films. All videos provided through the Kanopy streaming video platform have public performance rights.

Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music. Includes American Music, Classical Music, World Music, Jazz, and more.