How to Find Public Domain Resources

This database contains historical music for educational use that our research indicates is copyright free...and believe that the copyright for this music has expired or the music is in the public domain.

The seventy-six works presented here are limited to a period beginning shortly after the Civil War and ending at 1922. Presents music in the public domain, available for users to download.

Search historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.

Early recordings that are in the public domain have also been included on this site

This online presentation makes available all music manuscripts of works in the public domain from the Sousa Collection.

The collection presented online stops at 1922. Many works published after that year remain under copyright in the United States.

Explore the universe and discover our home planet with NASA through a collection of our sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions.

Search by time period, content, genre, or rights.

Search and download public domain music from one of three collections: Maine Sheet Music Collection; Parlor Salon Sheet Music Collection; Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection.

Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.

Search for public domain musical scores, texts, translations, and more.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.

"The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge."

"We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."

Any Song or Musical Work Published in 1922 or Earlier is in the Public Domain in the USA. No Sound Recordings are PD in the USA due to a tangled complexity of Federal and State Law.

Sounds that have been tagged with Public Domain free from SoundBible.com. All files are available in both Wav and MP3 formats.

Search audio files from Wikimedia Commons, a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.