Audio Recordings for Use in Music Learning and Teaching Contexts
There are many ways you might want to use free, public domain, or creative commons licensed, or other licensed sounds and music in learning and teaching contexts. For instance, when working with learners on sampling you might want some public domain or creative commons licensed recordings to avoid issues of copyright infringement. Here are some curated resources of music you can work with without worrying about copyright issues:
- 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. (Note: The rights for these recordings are focused on research and teaching. Make sure to read the rights information)
- Bach’s Open Goldberg Variations
- The Musopen Collection (Also see Musopen.org)
- Open Music Archive
- CCmixter.org
- Freesound.org
- Opsound.org
- Freemusicarchive.org