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Music & Performing Arts
- IIMP Full Text (International Index to Music Periodicals)Indexes articles from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, with over 60 Full Text titles. Retrospective coverage of some periodicals goes back as far as 1874. This is the main database for music research.
- Project MUSE
A selective full text database of nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Dates of coverage are variable - few journals go back farther than 1995.
- Academic Search Complete
Indexes nearly 3,200 magazines and journals in covering areas of academic study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Full text / full image is approximately 60%. Date coverage is highly various by journal title, in some cases going back to 1984 but usually no more than 1993-present. You can restrict results to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals by clicking the appropriate box.
- ProQuest Researh Library
Four major newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron’s) and over 1,800 magazines and journals in all subject areas are indexed in this combined database. Full text / full image is approximately 50%. The database is divided into current (1999-present) and backfile (1987-1998), and only one date category may be searched at a time. You can restrict results to scholarly journals (peer-reviewed publications) by checking the appropriate box. Unless your topic is very obscure, you will probably get better results by changing "Article Text" (the default on the third pull-down menu) to "Citations and abstracts."
- ProQuest Education Databases
Another ProQuest database, relevant for journal articles on performing arts education, the performing arts in education, and music therapy.
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- AHSearch (Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
A FirstSearch database provided by the Institute for Scientific Information, indexes over 1,300 journals in the arts and humanities going back to 1980. Abstracts are occasionally provided; comprehensive lists of cited references are included with each article citation. Most of the journals indexed are not held in Killam Library, and many are not in English. As always when using a FirstSearch database, please be sure to log out when you are finished, using the Exit link in the blue box on the left side of the screen.
- Wilson Select Plus
Another FirstSearch database, this one from H.W. Wilson, indexes over 1,600 journals in a variety of topics (including music) going back to 1984. No abstracts or full text is provided, and most of the journals are not held by Killam Library. As always when using a FirstSearch database, please be sure to log out when you are finished, using the Exit link in the blue box on the left side of the screen.
- ERIC
An education database good for journal articles in performing arts education, performing arts in education, and music therapy. In addition, citations with ED numbers are usually available in microfilm here in the Killam Library.
- MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliographies.
Useful for music, dance, and performing arts from the anthropological/ethnological and literary perspectives.
- PsycINFO
A comprehensive international index in Psychology, useful for music therapy and psychological aspects of music. Some full text is included.
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Music
- The Classical Music Archives, formerly known as Classical MIDI Archives, offers over 20,000 classical music files on the Internet in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media Audio (WMA) formats. Biographies of major composers are also included.
- ClassicalNet. Provides composer biographies and lists of works, repetoire lists, reviews of CDs, books, and scores, a CD buying guide, and links to other music sites.
- The Classical Music Pages. "This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links."
- The Choral Public Domain Library - Provides links to over 3,500 choral scores, mostly mainstream canonical pieces from the Renaissance through the Romantic era. Also includes MIDI sound files and other visual and audio access files.
- Popular American Music - Part of UCLA's Digital Library Program, this site provides sheet music and sound recordings of late 19th- and early 20th-Century popular music.
- Opera Glass, the best opera site, includes libretti and source texts, performances, synopses, discographies, biographies of composers, librettists, companies, and performers, pictures, and other information.
Individual Composers
Click on the composer's name to follow the website links.
Bach
Another Bach site
Beethoven
Berlioz
Brahms
Chopin
Dvorak
Mozart
Puccini
Ravel
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Wagner
Music Education
- MENC - National Association for Music Education (Music Educators National Conference)
- TMEA - Texas Music Education Association
- Website for the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Particularly helpful are the lists of member institutions and the FAQs for potential music students (and their parents).
Dance
- Site for the National Dance Association, a member association of AAHPERD (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreations and Dance).
- Artslynx International Dance Resources, a megasite of links for dancers, including chronologies of dance history.
- Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) - research information and links related to dance.
- The Dancing Master, 1651 - 1728, an illustrated electronic book on dance in the Enlightenment era.
- Cyberdance International, links for ballet.
- The Yahoo Directory for Dance.
- Dance Links, another links site.
- Dance.TheLinks - links for dance schools, including a few university dance programs.
- Dance Magazine - Articles from the magazine, plus other features for dancers and persons interested in dance.
- Sapphire Swan Dance Directory, another megasite of links arranged by dancing style - good lists of flamenco and folk dancing links, for example.
- World Flamenco - Provides news and flamenco-related items and a good list of links ("Other Flamenco related pages and sites," near the bottom of the page).
- Flamenco - An information page about flamenco, with a few links.
- American College Dance Festival Homepage
- Dance/USA - "Dance/USA advances the art form of dance by addressing the needs, concerns and interests of the professional dance community."
- NDCA (National Dance Council of America) Homepage
- Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD) Homepage
- Dance Notation Bureau - "The Dance Notation Bureau’s (DNB) mission is to advance the art of dance through the use of a system of notation. DNB does this by creating dance scores using the symbol system called Labanotation. This allows the dances to continue to be performed long after the lifetime of the artist. Dance scores function for dance the same way music scores function for music. DNB has produced and houses scores by artists such as George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Bill T. Jones, Doris Humphrey, William Forsythe, José Limón, Laura Dean, and about 155 others. Each year DNB assists in staging some 40 works from scores."
Dance Education
- Dance Teacher Magazine, with articles on ideas for dance teachers and many other resources for the dance educator.
- Dance Educators of America Homepage
- NASD (National Association of Schools of Dance) Homepage
Folkloric Dance
- Alegría! - The Mexico Fttp://www.alegria.org/">Alegría! - The Mexico Folklórico Home Page (in English).
- Folklorico.Com, "Instituto Cultural 'Raices Mexicanas,' Dedicado a la Difusion de la Danza Folklorica Mexicana" (in Spanish).
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