Alexander Street Music Online: Listening

Streaming audio of classical, popular, opera, jazz and world music, Music online also includes, liner notes, biographies, and images.

Music Online consists of 6 music collections

American Music: Country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, R&B, and shape note singing. A growing collection of over 6,700 albums.
Classical Music Library: All major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. Over 14,000 albums.
Contemporary World Music: Delivers the sounds of all regions from Bollywood to Balkanic jazz to Arabic swing. Over 16,000 albums.
Jazz Music Library: All major genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band, modern jazz, and more. Over 8,600 albums.
Popular Music Library: Wide range of popular music from around the world that is not available in our genre-specific collections.
Smithsonian Global Sound: A virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions — more than 2,900 albums of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds

Other features

Build playlists using content from anywhere in Music Online: Listening Plus — and from anywhere on the web. You can annotate your playlist, keep it at a permanent URL for private use, or share it.
Playlists can include multiple recordings of a single work, the score, a video performance, web pages, and a biography and photograph of the composer.
Built-in playlists match leading music textbooks and ready-made playlists for university-level courses.
Suitable for early high school students and up. Includes some children’s music.
Albums across all genres from, or about, New Zealand.