Music and Performing Arts

 

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Recommended Resources
Academic Video Online: Premium – Academic Video Online: Premium contains over 66,000 streaming videos with coverage in all academic subject areas.  more info
Arts & Humanities Citation Index® – Indexes and provides abstracts for the world’s leading arts and humanities journals beginning in 1986 with links to locally available content.  more info
Books at JSTOR – Books at JSTOR contains over 32,000 ebooks published prior to 2016 from a number of academic publishers with subject strengths in the humanities and social sciences.   more info
Books on Project MUSE – Books on Project MUSE provides access to ebooks published by university presses in the humanities and social sciences.  more info
BroadwayHD – Contains six streaming video plays produced by BroadwayHD.  more info
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) – Indexes all doctoral dissertations completed at U. S. accredited institutions since 1861. Provides abstracts of doctoral dissertations since 1981. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Provides 24-page previews of recent dissertations.  more info
ERIC (EBSCO) – Indexes and abstracts articles from education journals as well as the ERIC document collection. Provides comprehensive coverage of published and unpublished educational materials.  more info
Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video – Provides streaming videos from a broad range of academic subjects and production companies.  more info
Literature Criticism Online – Provides essays and excerpts of criticism of works included in four literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), Shakespearean Criticism (SC), and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).  more info
Literature Resource Center – Provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of the work of authors from every age and literary discipline.  more info
Mango Languages – An online language-learning program for over 70 languages including English. Lessons range from basic to comprehensive language and grammar skills, and can include casual conversations, films, and specialty courses in culture. Users can create a profile to track their language learning progress.  more info
MLA International Bibliography – Indexes critical literary and language publications and provides access to references taken from journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Provides links to some full-text articles.  more info
Music Index Online – Indexes articles published in international music periodicals on a broad range of classical and popular music subjects. In addition, this resource indexes book, music, score and performance reviews, and includes first performance and obituary information  more info
Naxos Music Library – Provides tracks of classical, jazz contemporary, world/folk, new age, and Chinese music. Includes information on the lives and works of composers, historical information on classical music and opera, a glossary, pronunciation guides, opera synopses and libretti.  more info
Oxford Music Online – Provides electronic versions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd Rev. Ed), including updates since the print editions were published.  more info
Performance Design Archive Online  – This database provides books, article, photos, drawing and videos covering all aspects of theater production design.  more info
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature – Indexes and abstracts scholarly writings on music and related disciplines.  more info
Theatre in Video: Volume I & Volume II– Contains over 575 streaming videos of plays from a broad range of production companies.  more info
Web of Science™ – Consists of three databases, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and indexes and provides abstracts for more recent articles.  more info

 

Other Resources
Academic Search Complete – Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.  more info
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection – Indexes and provides images of historic American magazine and journal pages and articles, published 1683 - 1912. Of special interest to Music & Theater: Drama, Humor, and Fine Arts Periodicals, 1764-1877; Musical Periodicals, 1781-1879.  more info
eDuke Books Scholarly Collection – Provides access to electronic books in the humanities and social sciences published in 2012 and 2013 by Duke University Press.  more info
JSTOR – Provides full-text of scholarly journals in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies. Southeastern users have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, V and Complement Collections and JSTOR Biology Collection.  more info
Project MUSE (Journals) – Provides full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.  more info
Research Library (ProQuest) – Indexes and abstracts popular and scholarly periodicals including full-text, full images, or text and graphics of articles from thousands of titles.  more info
Scribner Writers Series – Provides full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from the Scribner Writers series of reference books.  more info
Twayne Authors Series – Provides literary criticism, analysis of the history and influence of literary movements and development of literary genres.  more info
WorldCat – Indexes and provides information on library locations of materials at libraries worldwide.  more info