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Databases & Indexes: Art, Music, Theatre, Dance

Art and Architecture

  • Art and Architecture Complete  Provides indexing and abstracts to hundreds of periodicals, trade publications and books with links to full text when available.
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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 (Marquis Biographies Online)
    Brief biographies of thousands of artists.

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  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
    Over half a million digital images of NYPL visual holdings - posters, prints, dust jackets, maps, photographs, etc.

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  • EUROPEANA
        Digital texts, images, sounds and videos from European libraries and museums.

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  • Arcade: The New York Art Resources Consortium
    The joint catalog for the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
     
  • Bibliography of the History of Art
    Comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art from the Getty, covers material published between 1975 and 2007.
     
  • 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 1550 A.D.
     
  • Baptisteria Sacra
  • International iconographic index of baptismal fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century.
     
  • Oxford Art Online
  • Resources for art research including Grove Art Online - the world's largest art encyclopedia.    Please log out when finished, access is limited to 5 users.
     
  • Credo Reference - Art
  •   Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of art.
     
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • Index to hundreds of American and 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 many languages. Updated monthly. Some links to full texts of journal articles are provided.
     
  • Naxos Music Library
  •  Hundreds of thousands tracks 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.
     
  • MUSIC ONLINE
  •  Music resource that cross-searches 5 subscribed Alexander Street Press music databases listed below.
     
  • Smithsonian Global Sound
  •  Recordings of all kinds of music from all over the world.
     
  • American Song
  • Nearly 60,000 recordings of songs from America's past, including African-American songs.
     
  • Classical Music Library
  • Fully searchable classical music resource containing tens of thousands of recordings for free listening plus textual reference material. Click on icon next to titles on browse screen to send it to your mobile device.
     
  • Classical Scores Library
  •  Scores of nearly 25,000 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. 
     
  • Contemporary World Music
  •  When completed, it will contain 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. This release includes almost 16,000 albums equaling near 200,000 tracks. Click on icon next to titles on browse screen to send it to your mobile device.
     
  • Oxford Music Online 
     Resources for music research including Grove Music Online - the leading dictionary of music, musicians, opera and jazz. Please log out when finished, access is limited to 5 users.
     
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music
  •   Comprehensive coverage of popular music from 1900 to the present. Includes jazz, country, folk, rap, musicals, world music, etc.
     
  • Musical America
  •  In depth coverage of music industry, including contact information for artists, managers, organizations and advertisers.
     
  • National Jukebox
  •  Historical recordings from the Library of Congress.
     
  • LyricServer
  •  Search engine for song lyrics.

     

    Performing Arts

  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
  • Full text of over 140 journals and more than 300 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 productions and documentaries, viewable online.
     
  • BBC Shakespeare Plays Collection
  •  Videos of 37 Shakespeare plays. Search by the name or scroll down and click on the collection title to get to the complete list of video clips.
     
  • Dance in Video   
  • When complete Dance in Video will contain 500 hours of dance productions and documentaries.

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