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Music and Performing Arts Collection This link opens in a new window
The collection features scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, newspapers, and reference works, covering a wide range of disciplines including dance, ballet, circus performance, popular music, puppetry, radio, stagecraft, theatre, classical music, and opera. It provides full text to approximately 220 titles, and access over 100 pereiodicals, trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
With over 600 theatre productions, 800 video resources, and 21,000 pages of resources, Digital Theatre+ will bring the power of theatre and its core concepts to life for students and instructors. Digital Theatre+ collaborates with over 50 leading theatre companies, educational organizations, art collectives, and other providers to provide timely and relevant resources such as interviews, clips from productions, documentaries, and workshops. Topics include core theatrical disciplines, playwriting, theatre for social change, and theatre design.
Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window
A musical theater repertoire database that allows your to find the right song, right now, for your next audition, performance or for study. Search over 11,000 (and counting) titles spanning 150 years of shows, custom-tailor your search using up to 20 different parameters and over 100 descriptive tags, get direct links to sheet music and recordings. Choose classic titles, rarities, or the latest work from today's top new composersUnique search parameters include WOMAN/NONBINARY Composers and Lyricists and GLOBAL MAJORITY (Includes AIPAP, Black, Latin, Indigenous and MENASA) Composers and Lyricists.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Oxfors Music Onlione is an authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe. Contains updated entries from the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed), New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed). Limit of 8 concurrent users.
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window
The New Play Exchange ® (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic access to back runs of scholarly journals, literary journals, academic monographs, research reports, and primary sources. Due to agreements with the publishers, JSTOR does not include current issues of journals; the most recently published issue of any current journal will not appear in JSTOR until 1-5 years after the publishing date.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
Search academic journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, and video. Includes the following databases: Academic Complete, Academic Video Online, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Music Reference Collection This link opens in a new window
Music Reference Collection contains a variety of essential reference materials allowing users to chronicle the history of music of diverse origins and walks of life. The comprehensive collection of reference materials covers virtually every time period, genre, cultural group, and geographic region.
African American Music Reference chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. This full text collection also includes biographies and personal narratives from oral histories, manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
The Classical Music Reference Library includes the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. This collection provides biographical information on major composers and artists, score and lyric excerpts, plus musical and notational terms.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music includes the full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) that allows for in-text searching.
300+ associated audio examples. This collection also includes musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.

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Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary E-books collection. Can be viewed online and limited printing and downloading is available with the creation of a free account. Full downloading is also available with an Adobe account and Adobe Digital Editions software (freely available from Adobe). The database contains the Academic Complete collection with over 200,000 scholarly e-books.
eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary E-book collection. E-books can be viewed online. Limited downloading and printing is available with a free EBSCO account. Full downloading for offline reading is available with an Adobe account and Adobe Digital Editions (freely available from Adobe). Contains over 300,00 titles.

The Merchant of Venice by John W. Mahon (Editor); Ellen Macleod Mahon (Editor)
ISBN: 0415929997
Publication Date: 2002-08-02
The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm by Cameron Cartiere (Editor); Leon Tan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780429833816
Publication Date: 2020-10-19
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 0140481346
Publication Date: 1976-10-28