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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 composers
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.

Find Books & Ebooks on Theatre and Dance

Select Books & Ebooks on Theatre and Dance

Forms of Emotion by Peta Tait Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of 'emotion', to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect the distinctions and debates in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This study asserts that specific forms of emotion are intentionally unified in drama, theatre, and performance to convey meaning, counteract separation and subversively champion emotional freedom. The book progressively shows that the dramatic and theatrical representation of the nonhuman reveals how human dominance is offset by emotional connection with birds, animals, and the natural environment. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in the emotions and affect in dramatic literature, theatre studies, performance studies, psychology, and philosophy as well as artists working with emotionally expressive performance.
ISBN: 9781003124832
Publication Date: 2021-11-29
Postdramatic Dramaturgies by Kai Tuchmann (Editor) This book compiles lectures by the world's leading practitioners of postdramatic theatre from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were given at Asia's only dramaturgy degree program at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2018/19. It includes first-time English-language scripts of the discussed plays. The material is complemented by contextualizing essays by the program founder Li Yinan and its co-developer Kai Tuchmann. Hans-Thies Lehmann contributes the foreword to this volume. This rare compilation enables the reader to gain a unique insider's impression of postdramatic theatre's artistic thinking and working methods and informs about its manifold manifestations. With contributions from Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Lee Kyung-Sung, Li Yinan, Boris Nikitin, Kai Tuchmann, Wang Mengfan, Wen Hui, Zhao Chuan and Zhuang Jiayun.
ISBN: 3837659976
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
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.
ISBN: 9781003033226
Publication Date: 2022-04-05

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.