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Public Domain Music, Newly Recorded
Audiosocket's public domain collection is copyright free music at the composition level: new recordings of works whose copyright has expired, from traditional Christmas carols to Mozart's Alla Turca and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker waltz, each cleared for commercial use. Piano and orchestral strings lead the instrumental side; Bradford Loomis and Beckah Shae sing the carols with roots-rock and country warmth. It suits holiday ads, classroom video and any edit that needs a melody the audience already knows.
28 tracks1 hr 53 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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Not quite: public domain means the composition is no longer under copyright, but every specific recording of it still is. Silent Night and Mozart's Alla Turca are public domain works, yet Bradford Loomis's recording of Silent Night and the piano performance of Alla Turca in this collection are protected recordings. That is why these tracks are licensed rather than given away. You get a cleared, professionally recorded version of a melody no one owns, with the recording rights already settled.
A little over half of the tracks are instrumental, and nearly all of the classical pieces fall on that side, including Tchaikovsky's Valse des Fleurs from The Nutcracker, the Sleeping Beauty waltz and Steve Rice's tack-piano Take Me Out to the Ballgame. The sung tracks are mostly carols and spirituals: Bradford Loomis on Jingle Bells and Mary Don't You Weep, Beckah Shae on Joy to the World, Jetty Rae on By & By. Filter to instrumentals when you need a bed under narration.
The Christmas side covers the standard carols whose words and melodies are out of copyright: Silent Night, Joy to the World, Jingle Bells, The First Noel, Angels We Have Heard On High and Go Tell It On The Mountain. Most are sung, with roots-rock and country warmth closer to Bruce Springsteen than to a cathedral choir; Mark Petrie's The First Noel is the instrumental exception. Holiday retail spots, church video and classroom projects are the natural fit.
Tracks here average about four minutes, longer than the usual library cue, because the classical works and carols are recorded at full length rather than as short stings. That suits lecture openers, school performances on video, museum and history edits, and anything where the whole piece is the point. For a shorter cut, trim at a phrase ending; the waltzes and carols have clear, repeated sections that make clean edit points.
The license is straightforward; the claim is the part no library can promise away. Every recording here is cleared for commercial use, including monetized YouTube video, and the license is perpetual for the finished video. A YouTube Content ID claim can still appear on a familiar carol or classical piece because many recordings of the same work exist. If it does, dispute it by stating the track was licensed through Audiosocket.