John Brown Song
While music is an important part to any documentary, it can be difficult to find free (and legal) music to download. Here are a few sites which have public domain music and sounds that you can download for free.
Public
Domain Music
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Musopen allows you to download public domain music. You can browse their collection by composer, performer, instrument, period, and form. Sheet Music is also available. |
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, which is available from the Department of Special Collections at the University of California – Santa Barbara, provides free access to public domain music.
You can browse their collection by genre, instruments, and subject. Learn more about “Cylinder Recordings” here. |
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The Recorded Sound Reference Center provides access to some of the Library of Congress’ public domain music. |