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African American Music Reference   African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. |
American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)  American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online. (Alexander Street Press) |
| American Song (Alexander Street Press) A music history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. (Alexander Street Press) |
| Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection (Alexander Street) Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening. Specialized indexing at the track level for over half of these recordings links individual segments of plays to specific academic disciplines and subject keywords. This allows researchers to find relevant scenes that touch on subjects in the humanities, social sciences, theatre, hard sciences, law, medicine, and virtually every other field of study. |
| Black Drama (Alexander Street) Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area. |
| Bloom's Literature Bloom’s Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors—from William Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling—and their works; streaming video of more than 400 famous productions, from comedies to dramas to musicals plus video clips featuring major scholars discussing important literary topics; hundreds of full-text classic works; essential writing guides; and literary criticism. Also included is the Shakespeare Center covering the plays, sonnets, and longer poems with full-text, critical analysis, character studies, synopses, and full-length performance videos. |
| Byron Hoyt Sheet Music Collection More than 7,000 classical sheet music and educational titles. |
| Classical Music Library Multi-label database of 50,000+ classical music recordings for listening and learning. Find, listen to, and even buy your favorite classical music recordings. |
| Classical Music Reference Library Brings together >40,000 pages of materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Includes the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. |
| Classical Scores Library Will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from in-copyright & public domain editions. The major composers' output is represented, plus many lesser known composers & works. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano & vocal scores, & piano reductions. |
| Classical Singer Access to Classical Singer Magazine, audition and competition listings, articles, directories, and event calendars. |
| Contemporary World Music Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. |
| Digital Theatre Plus Unlimited access to the highest quality English and drama resources that offer a unique perspective on current theatre practitioners and their work. FOR BEST RESULTS, use Mozilla Firefox. |
| Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew) Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society, and explore how the plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history. Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. Also included are the diaries of Larpent’s wife and professional collaborator Anna, recording her criticisms of plays, as well as insights into theatrical culture and English society. Hundreds of further documents including playbills, theatre records and correspondence provide social context. This truly interdisciplinary resource is rich in the breadth and scope of eighteenth-century material available, and will appeal to researchers working on not only theatre and drama, but literature, history, politics, music, censorship, gender and Romanticism. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Filmakers Library Online (Alexander Street) Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. |
| Films on Demand A state-of-the-art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational programs from Films Media Group into your content management systems, online lesson plans, distance learning courseware, or electronic card catalog system. |
| Fine Arts & Music Collection (Gale) Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. (Gale) |
| Humanities Source (EBSCO) Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. It includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. (EBSCO) |
| Index to Printed Music IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works. |
| IPA Source IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. IPA Source offers texts to works for the solo voice in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. (IPA Source) |
| Medici tv Medici.tv offers over 700 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish. |
| Met Opera on Demand The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. Met Opera on Demand offers more than 550 Met performances, including Live in HD productions, classic telecasts, and archival broadcast recordings, for high-quality viewing and listening on any computer or iPad. (Metropolitan Opera) |
| Music Online (Alexander Street Press) Cross search American Music, Classical Music, Classical Scores, African American Music Reference and Contemporary World Music simultaneously. |
| Music Online: Jazz Music Library (Alexander Street) Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online—with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. |
| Music Online: Opera in Video (Alexander Street) Music Online: Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. |
| Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (Alexander Street) Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. |
| Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street) The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. |
| Music Periodicals (ProQuest) This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. (ProQuest) |
| Naxos Digital Sheet Music Sheet music that can be downloaded and printed from 40,000 editions of classical music and jazz. Requires the download of a separate Solero viewer. Provided by FreeHandMusic.com. |
| Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 1,211,900 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. |
| Naxos Video Library The world's leading Performing Arts DVD distributor brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand! |
| North American Women's Drama (Alexander Street) North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights and brings these writings the attention they deserve, by publishing the full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the assistance of our editorial board |
| OMNImusic Database of licensed music for use in videos, projects, campus events, or other student/staff/faculty projects. |
| Oxford Music Online Oxford Music Online include all the former Grove publications along with The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. |
| Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 (Adam Matthew) From the austerity of the 1950s to the excess of the 1970s, discover the period through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority. By focusing on substantial collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, this digital resource provides primary sources to enable students and scholars to examine these issues in detail. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to present) (EBSCO) (1967-present) The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including records in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals. |
| RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers from manuscripts found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries. |
| Shakespeare in Performance (Adam Matthew) Go behind the scenes and explore how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted by theatre companies, actors and directors across the centuries. This resource features the world-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. A prompt book is the main copy of a production script. They include personal notes, sketches and cues for lighting and music, from set design and costume to music and acting. Researchers can follow how each individual production unfolded; see what amendments were made to the text and stage management over the years; and explore the influences and connections between different productions of the same play. This remarkable resource will transform understanding of how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted and performed since they were written. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Subject Guides LibGuides Research Guides |
| The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 (Alexander Street) The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. NOTE: This database contains content that may be offensive. |
| Theatre (Alexander Street) Theatre (formerly known as North American Theatre Online) features performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other worldwide dramatists from the past several centuries. In addition to performances, Theatre also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more. |
| Theatre in Video: Volume I (Alexander Street) Theatre in Video: Volume I contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions. |
| Twentieth Century North American Drama (Alexander Street) Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights, and more than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. This collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries. Scholars and students who use the database will have a new way to study the signal events of the twentieth century—including the Depression, the role of women, the Cold War, and more—through the plays and performances of writers who lived through these decades. |
| Victorian Popular Culture (Adam Matthew) This innovative portal invites readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. The Victorian Popular Culture portal is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |