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Databases & Indexes: Art, Music, Theatre, Dance


Art and Architecture

  • Art Abstracts

  •     Index to nearly 500 periodicals with coverage from 1984 with many links to full text.
     
  • PIDGEON DIGITAL
        Series of talks by leading architects about their work illustrated by images. TRIAL ACCESS.

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  • ARTstor
        Hundreds of thousands of online images of paintings, sculptures, architecture and other works of art.

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  • Who's Who in American Art
        Brief biographies of over 14,000 artists.

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  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
        Over 275,000 digital images of posters, prints, dust jackets, maps, photographs, etc.

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  • Bibliography of the History Of Art
        Index to books and periodical articles from 1973 to the present.

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  • Art Bibliographies Modern

  •     Abstracts of the current literature on modern art, photography, and design.
     
  • Dyabola

  •     German Archaeological Institute database of classical archaeology books and articles from 1956 to the present. Chech the IP box and click on Start.
     
  • Index of Christian Art

  •     Text and image database containing thousands of records and images of art objects dating from Apostolic times to 1400 A.D.
     
  • Oxford Art Online

  •     Resources for art research including Grove Art Online - the world's largest art encyclopedia.
     
  • Credo Reference - Art

  •     Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of art.
     
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

  •     Index to over 2,500 international journals on architecture with links to some full text.

     


      Music

  • International Index to Music Periodicals

  •     Index to hundreds of music journals with full text of many articles.
     
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  •    An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. Dating from 1967 to present, it offers abstracts of sources published in over 100 languages. Updated monthly. Some links to full texts of journal articles are provided.
     
  • Naxos Music Library

  •     Over 80,000 recordings of classical music, jazz, folk, new age, and Chinese music.
     
  • Opera in Video
  •    Will eventually contain 250 videos of well-known operas.
     
  • Naxos Music Library Sheet Music

  •     Provides access to downloading and printing thousands of scores from classical to pop. You need to install Solero Viewer on your computer.
     
  • Smithsonian Global Sound

  •     Recordings of all kinds of music from all over the world.
     
  • American Song

  •     Over 50,000 recordings of songs from America's past.
     
  • African American Song

  •     16,000 recordings of all genres of African American music.
     
  • Classical Music Library

  •     Fully searchable classical music resource containing tens of thousands of recordings for free listening plus textual reference material. Music may be  downloaded using a credit card.
     
  • Classical Scores Library

  •     Scores of over 8,000 pieces of music many of which are recorded in Classical Music Library so that you may listen to the music while following along with the full score.
     
  • Oxford Music Online 
        Resources for music research including Grove Music Online - the leading dictionary of music, musicians, opera and jazz.
     
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music 
        Comprehensive coverage of popular music from 1900 to the present. Includes jazz, country, folk, rap, musicals, world music, etc.

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  • International Lyrics Server

  •     Index to 130,000 songs with lyrics for 62,000 songs.

     

    Performing Arts

  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text

  •     Full text of over 100 journals and books.
     
  • International Index to the Performing Arts

  •     Index to journals on theatre and dance with full text of many articles.
     
  • Theatre in Video

  •     Over 250 plays on video viewable online.
     
  • Dance in Video

  •     When complete Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions of all types.

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