Music, Film & Performing Arts
African American Song (Requires Headphones) Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Music brings 50,000 tracks of music online to document the history of African American music in sound.
_______________________ All Music Guide Searchable database of 20th century popular music and musicians, including discographies and a glossary.
_______________________ American Film Institute Catalog Provides comprehensive filmographic information on over 45,000 films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to 1910.
_______________________ American Song (Requires Headphones) American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet.
_______________________ Archival Finding Aids (Library of Congress) Provides links to all the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids for various collections at the Library of Congress.
_______________________ Art Full Text Wilson Art Abstracts indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in the arts, as well as expanded coverage of European, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
_______________________ Art Index Retrospective Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines.
_______________________ Arts and Humanities Citation Index A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities (available in ISI Web of Science).
_______________________ Bach Bibliography Contains over 23,000 citations to scholarly literature relating to Johann Sebastian Bach.
_______________________ BMS Online: Bibliography of Music Literature Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums is an international bibliography of music literature.
_______________________ British Pathe Film Archive Preview the newsreel collections from the entire 3,500 hour British Pathe Film Archive covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
_______________________ Canadian Music Periodical Index CMPI is an index of articles from 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines containing nearly 30,000 entries.
_______________________ CESAR Details of the plays, people and performance spaces that graced French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries, from the dawn of the age of public playhouses to the French Revolution.
_______________________ Chinese Movie Database Covers production, cast and crew, awards and biographies, reviews and books, and other information about Chinese language movies made in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions.
_______________________ CineFiles CineFiles is a database of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase
program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Library's collection.
_______________________ Classical Music Library (Requires Headphones) Classical Music Library is a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings.
_______________________ Communication and Mass Media Complete Abstracts, and some full text, of articles from over 300 journals, as well as handbooks and recent encyclopedias, in communication & mass media.
_______________________ Contemporary World Music (Requires Headphones) Contains 50,000 tracks incorporating contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres.
_______________________ Credo Reference : Music & Theatre Includes the full text of a half dozen reference sources in music, including biographical dictionaries.
_______________________ Credo Reference : Art Includes the full text of over 20 reference sources about art, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and biographies.
_______________________ Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
_______________________ Dramatis Personae Archive Covers European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850 and contains rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals.
_______________________ E-Journals in Music, Dance, Drama & Film Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
_______________________ Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO contains digital images of every page of 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century.
_______________________ Encyclopedia of Television The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal.
_______________________ Film & Television Literature Index FTLI with full text covers the entire spectrum of television and film, including film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
_______________________ Film Literature Index (FLI) Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
_______________________ Global Performing Arts Database GloPAD records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
_______________________ Humanities Full Text Wilson Humanities Abstracts covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.
_______________________ Index to Printed Music : Collections & Series Use the Index to Printed Music to find individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions.
_______________________ International Index to Music Periodicals IIMP Contains citations to articles in nearly 400 current international music periodicals from over 20 countries; some citations as far back as 1874.
_______________________ International Index to the Performing Arts IIPA covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, tv, drama, theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.
_______________________ Internet Broadway Database IDBD provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
_______________________ Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance Links to public internet sites in the areas of: Performing Arts Libraries and Research Aids; Obituaries and Necrologies; Dance Sites; Theater Sites; Opera and Music Sites.
_______________________ MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies.
_______________________ Movie Review Query Engine MRQE is a movie review index with links to over 450,000 full-text reviews covering more than 40,000 films from international, national, and local newspapers, arts and entertainment journals, and other sources.
_______________________ Moving Images Collections MIC documents moving image collections around the world through a catalog of titles and directory of repositories.
_______________________ Music Education Search System Consists of 3 searchable databases: The Music Journals database; Poland-Cady Abstract Collection; and Index to the Boletin de Investigacio Educativo Musical.
_______________________ Music Index Provides citations to articles, book and record reviews, first
performances, and obituaries from over 640 international music periodicals.
_______________________ Music Resources on the World Wide Web Subject guide to music resources maintained by Yale University.
_______________________ Musical Borrowing: an Annotated Bibliography The bibliography has more than 1200 items, more than 500 of them annotated, of published materials and theses relating to the use of existing music in the tradition of Western music.
_______________________ Naxos Music Library (Access from Recorded Sound Reference Center Only) The Naxos Music Library provides Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music recordings from all over the globe to listeners.
_______________________ New York Times Movie Reviews Browse or search 15,000 New York Times movie reviews since 1960.
_______________________ Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) The OVI database contains over 1,800 vernacular texts, the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death.
_______________________ Oxford African American Studies Center AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience.
_______________________ Oxford Music Online Includes Grove Music Online, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).
_______________________ Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
_______________________ PapersFirst Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
_______________________ Performing Arts Encyclopedia A centralized guide to the Library of Congress holdings in music, motion picture, broadcasting, recorded sound, manuscript, rare book and other nonbook collections.
_______________________ Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians Provides some help in the form of pronunciations by a phonetic system devised by the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University.
_______________________ RILM Abstracts of Music Literature International bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines from 5,200 journals in 202 languages.
_______________________ RIPM : Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale database provides citations to articles from over sixty international nineteenth-century music periodicals.
_______________________ RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) identifies and describes the world's musical sources, including manuscripts, printed music, and writings about music stored in libraries, archives, monasteries and private collections.
_______________________ Sheet Music Consortium Search or browse sheet music collections by title, composer or lyricist, keyword or subject.
_______________________ Show Music on Record Provides discographic information for commercially-released show music recordings starting with those captured on early cylinders in the late 19th century and continuing through recent compact disc productions of the early 21st century.
_______________________ SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions Lists over 7,000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime).
_______________________ Smithsonian Global Sound (Requires Headphones) Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
_______________________ Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
_______________________ Vanderbilt Television News Archive Holds individual network evening news broadcasts from the major American national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
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