Art, Music, & Performing Arts Databases
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Art
- Art Full Text
- Broad coverage of art, architecture, and related areas covering publications from 1984 to present. (more info...) |
- Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
- Retrospective coverage of art, architecture, and related areas. (more info...) |
- ARTBibliographies Modern
- Indexes materials on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. (more info...) |
- JSTOR
- Articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (more info...) |
- Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online)
- Includes the encyclopedia Grove Art Online & other Oxford art publications. (more info...) |
Music
- DRAM: the Database of Recorded American Music
- A collection of sound recordings documenting American music. (more info...) | (Technical note)
- IIMP Full Text (International Index to Music Periodicals)
- Articles on all genres of music. (more info...) |
- JSTOR
- Articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (more info...) |
- Music Index Online
- Indexes music magazines and journals worldwide. (more info...) |
- Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
- Audio, video, scores and full text reference content covering classical, jazz, world and American music. (more info...) |
- Naxos Music Library
- Provides actual tracks of music from various genres and time periods. (more info...) |
- Naxos Music Library Jazz
- Music collection from over 500 jazz artists. (more info...) |
- Oxford Music Online (formerly Grovemusic)
- Includes New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and New Grove Dictionary of Opera (more info...) |
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- Index to all aspects of music and related fields. (more info...) |
Performing Arts
- Academic Search Premier
- Articles from scholarly journals covering many academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. (more info...) |
- Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press)
- Video collection of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. (more info...) |
- Film & Television Literature Index
- Theory, preservation and restoration, cinematography, etc. [more info...] |
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
- Journals, books, book articles, and dissertations of interest to theatre and dance students and professionals. (more info...) |
- JSTOR
- Articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (more info...) |
- Literature Criticism Online
- Includes content from the Gale publication Drama Criticism covering playwrights & their works. (more info...) |
- Literature Resource Center
- Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline (more info...) |
- MLA Bibliography
- Essential index to publications on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage includes theatre, dance, and drama criticism and interpretation. (more info...) |
- Play Index
- Index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present. (more info...) |
- Project Muse
- Articles covering literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies and more. (more info...) |
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