IBTD, a fully-indexed databank of journal article, book, and dissertation citations on all aspects of theatre and performance the world over, includes full-text from over 170 journals and 360 books.
A continually growing collection of 700+ videos, all closed captioned, and spanning many subject areas, from the BBC Shakespeare Plays to Nature's Microworlds and more.
A comprehensive resource for art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Researchers can track the careers of artists and review their materials and methods, and find books by and about artists, as well as interviews, profiles, and much more. Indexing of art reproductions helps users find virtually any work of interest—including works by emerging artists—as well as examples of styles and movements in art.
Includes seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience and covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Oral and visual history of the culture, society, and identity of the Caribbean people, by the Caribbean people, with recordings of music, dance, interviews, and cultural programming housed in the Banyan Archives in Trinidad & Tobago.
Platform for the study of performing arts and dramatic texts. Provides unlimited access to live performance of thousands of full-length productions accompanied by a range of educational resources for illustration, explanation, and critical reflection.
Includes the full text of plays from across the history of the theater, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information. Critical interpretations, theater history surveys and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods and genres are included alongside performance and practitioner texts, acting and backstage guides. Also includes over 500 images from the Victoria and Albert Museum's archive of production photos.
Archive of almost every play submitted for license in the Great Britain between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays, featuring the John Larpent Collection of Plays from the Huntington Library; supplementary documents including Anna Larpent Diaries; the London Stage database, which which lists every traceable performance 1660-1800; and the database Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800.
Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence, and ephemera supporting the cultural study of music.
Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files by single or multiple titles, by keyword, ISBN, or full text.
Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Containing 10.4 million articles. 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.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective™: 1907-1984 offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
Humanities Full Text™ provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
The Music Index, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages.
MMA content now included in Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
A series of digital collections focused on 20th and 21st century genres such as Rock, Folk, and Hip-Hop & Rap. Includes all material represented in the original publications, preserved in its original context, fully searchable and in high-resolution full color.
Provides full-text reference articles, biographies, images, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the African American experience through music. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, and other forms.
Collection of classical scores covering all major musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Covers music of the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a region's musical traditions and themes, descriptions of musical genres and practices, and streaming audio.
Streaming access to Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (nearly 3,000 albums of music, spoken word, and sounds) plus several other ethnographic labels, including Cook Records, Monitor Records, and the International Library of African Music (ILAM). Special vocabularies facilitate browsing by musical instrument, geographic area, cultural group, genre, and other fields. Liner notes available under a “Related Documents” tab. Downloads available through a “Purchase URL” link.
Online classical music library offers streaming access to well over 120,000 CDs of standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. NML offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs, as well as selected recordings from over 650 labels such as Chandos, Deutsche Grammophon, and EMI Classics. Text resources include liner notes, composer/artist biographies, work analyses, opera libretti and synopses. Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined NML playlists.
A small but growing collection of feature-length films of performances by contemporary artists representing the Pacific Northwest, New York, Australia, Germany, France, Poland, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Belgium, Montreal, and more.
Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Please note: a login is NOT required to access this database. You may create a personal account if you wish to have access to the ability to save searches, etc.
With over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars, Grove Music Online (GMO) is the authoritative resource for music research with an ongoing mission to chart the diverse history and cultures of music and musicians from around the globe.
Searches over 31,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present published individually or in books, anthologies, or journals. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search by title, author, subject, genre.
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Critical performing editions of music in seven series which fall into two basic categories: editions that span the history of Western music, and editions with ties to specific cultural milieus. Most editions in Recent Researches in Music are devoted to works by a single composer or in a single genre.
RILM offers full-text search and cover-to-cover full text browsing of journals in music and music-related disciplines and fields from many countries and in more than 140 languages. In addition to scholarly articles and reviews, the database includes obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, news items, metadata, and abstracts. Database includes in-depth vocabulary-controlled indexing and detailed abstract texts, with titles given in both the original language and English translation. Includes the Complete RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Bibliography and Index
Subjects Include: Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Theory, Instruments, Pedagogy, Performance, and other music topics
Archive of popular music journalism of the last 60 years. More than 35,000 articles from hundreds of US and UK publications, including Creem, Melody Maker, and New Musical Express. Covers Rock ‘n’ Roll, R&B, Funk, Punk, and other genres. Articles are fully searchable by author, artists, genre, keyword, date, publication, etc. Also features audio interviews.
Showcasing over 1,000 rare prompt books of 34 of Shakespeare’s plays from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, including editions owned by notable actors and directors. These prompt books (scripts of the plays marked up for performance) tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theaters throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally. Other archival material includes letters, photographs, illustrations, costume and set designs.
Collection of documents that offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre; details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment; and documents over two hundred performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs, and architectural plans.
Plays from TCG Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America.
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