Streaming Audio
- Naxos Music LibraryIncludes mostly classical music, but also a few popular music labels
- Classical Music LibraryIncludes over 7,000 albums from the a variety of labels, including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the Middle Ages to the present, including many contemporary composers.
- Jazz Music LibraryA collection of over 1,000 albums.
- American SongMusic from America's past. Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
- Smithsonian Global SoundIncludes the catalog of the nonprofit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label as well as the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, and Paredon labels, among others.
- Contemporary World MusicContains the sounds from every continent, including reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz.
- DRAM: Database of Recorded American MusicContemporary classical music
Finding Music
Use Franklin to search for sounds recordings available on CD or to stream, as well as musical scores.
Movies
Search Franklin for movies available in streaming format or DVD.
This link will generate a list of DVDs by most recent publication date. To check out a DVD, note the location. If it is available at the Van Pelt - Video Collection, note the DVD number and request it at the Van Pelt Circulation Desk.
Streaming videos can be found through a catalog search for online videos. This link will generate a list, excluding our biomedical videos.
See the Streaming from Penn Libraries tab of the Cinema & Media Studies Research Guide for a full list of streaming services.