Music and Sound

TROVE - MUSIC, SOUND AND VIDEO

• Sounds (includes recordings of interviews, lectures, talks, music, and other sounds such as radio segments or field recordings)
• Printed music
• Audio books
• Videos (includes captioned films)
• Government publications with audio-visual material attached

https://trove.nla.gov.au/

NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE OF AUSTRALIA

The National Film and Sound Archive is the custodian of over 2.8 million items that they not only collect, but preserve for future generations and share in many diverse ways.

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - COMMONWEALTH FILM UNIT 1940-1973

The Commonwealth Film Unit has film and sound recordings. Sound holdings include musical scores, musical recordings and audio location recordings.

https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/fs-25-Commonwealth-Film-Unit.pdf

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - ABC TALKS DEPARTMENT SCRIPTS

These also include sound recordings.

The following is Fact Sheet 153 from the National Archives of Australia.

https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/fs-153-abc-talks-department.pdf

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - SOUND RECORDINGS HELD IN SYDNEY

The following is Fact Sheet 149 from the National Archives of Australia.

https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/fs-149-sound-collections-in-sydney.pdf

INTERNET ARCHIVE

It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain (out of copyright or if the copyright owner has given permission) books. Scanned books are mainly from American, Canadian, European and Indian libraries.

https://archive.org/

MUSEUM

AUSTRALIAN JAZZ MUSEUM

https://www.ajm.org.au/

BOOK

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - SOUND RECORDINGS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES BY HELEN CROSS AND MARGARET CHAMBERS, 2001

The National Archives holds a collection of sound recordings including interviews, speeches, plays, documentaries, music and sports broadcasts.

https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/research-guides/sound-recordings-national-archives