Subject guides: MOOC Resources for Educators: Music/Scores and Audio

Music

Digital History
Copyright free American historical music for educational use by teachers and their students.
National Jukebox (Library of Congress)
Historical sound recordings (mostly American) available to the public free of charge

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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings (mostly American) available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
Citizen DJ
Make music using the free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library of Congress.
CC Mixter
CC sound remix tool and archive. A good source of CC music. All the music on CC Mixter can be remixed
Europeana Music collections
Brings together a selection of the best music recordings, sheet music, and other music related collections from Europe's audio-visual archives, libraries, archives and museums. Europeana strives to make all resources on this website available for re-use, for more detail refer to
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Europeana strives to make all resources on this website available for re-use. As part of this, all metadata (textual information on digitised cultural heritage) on the site are published without any restrictions on re-use. Most other material, such as the previews to digitised cultural heritage, is clearly labelled with rights statements that indicate if and under which conditions it can be re-used.

Music Scores

IMSLP: International Music Score Library Project
Provides full access to over 260,000 scores: many open access - each score indicates it's copyright conditions when you click on it.

Audio

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
FindSounds
Search the web for free sound effects.
Sound Effects via MediaCollege.com
Sound effects that are free to download and use.

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Files that are labelled "Full Permission" have been recorded by our staff and released without any conditions except that you can't sell or redistribute them. Apart from that, you can use these FX in any video or audio project, non-profit or commercial.
SoundJay.com
Free sound effects to download and use.
FreeSound.org
Database of sounds under Creative Commons licenses which allow their reuse.

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Browse, download and share audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, etc.