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Music: Free Online Recordings
A research guide for finding music in various formats in the Yale University Library, and for beginning research on music.
Some of the earliest published disc recordings, these offer a unique insight into the earliest years of music and spoken word recording. Off-campus users must agree to terms.
African American performers and composers and the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and Negro spirituals composed for concert performance.
Almost 5000 sounds files available via the Find Sound Files facility, transferred from 78rpm discs held by the King's Sound Archive and King's College London. A broad range of composers of the classical repertory, with an emphasis on Schubert.