Oxford 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.
RILM, a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world that provides abstracts for over 1,500,000 records from scholarly journals, reports, and professional publications from 1800s - 2021. Full text may be requested through interlibrary loan.
Online access to audio recordings of thousands of classical music as well as selections from Jazz and World/Folk music. Almost three million tracks are available, and hundreds ofalbums are added each month. Naxos provides study guides, interactive dictionaries, and over 40,000 biographies are available on artists and composers.
A collection of journals, e-books, and primary sources, covering content in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. New content for journals will not appear for 1-5 years after the publishing date.
Rock's Backpages is the largest archive of music journalism online, featuring almost 50,000 articles on thousands of artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top. The database works with hundreds of writers to archive their work for students and researchers.
A multidisciplinary database and a leading resource for scholarly research. Includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals in key areas of academic study, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
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.
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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Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts by Matthew Reason (Editor); Lynne Conner (Editor); Katya Johanson (Editor); Ben Walmsley (Editor)The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance. This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines. This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.
Multidisciplinary collection of scholarly ebooks. Can be viewed online and limited printing and downloading is available with the creation of a free account. Full downloading for offline reading is also available with an Adobe account and Adobe Digital Editions software (freely available from Adobe).
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts by
The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance. This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines. This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.
