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  • Dance Online: Dance in Video
    Dance Online: Dance in Video provides 900 hours of video content covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance. The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies. video multimedia
  • Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection
    The only collection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance. Presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material. primary sources
  • Digital Theatre+
    Digital Theatre+ provides access to hundreds of theatre productions and educational resources covering English and the Performing Arts. video multimedia
  • DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
    Streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. The primary focus is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace. video multimedia
  • Drama Online
    Drama Online is a unique online resource published by Bloomsbury Publishing, of over 1,000 full-text plays and 100+ related reference works. Accessible collections include the Core Collection, Nick Hern Books Modern Plays, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1&2, and Shakespeare in the Present. literary texts video multimedia

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  • Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
    Contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha, and related works. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Coverage: 1591-1911. literary texts
  • Eighteenth Century Drama
    Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • English Drama
    Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Coverage: 1280-1915. literary texts

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  • Music Online: African American Music Reference
    Chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Contains full text from major reference works, 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Music Online: American Music
    This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Music in Video
    Contains opera and classical music performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, these selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Music Library
    Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
    Brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music. encyclopedias reference
  • Music Online: Classical Performance in Video
    Explore the largest, most diverse, and comprehensive catalog of online music content in the world. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Classical Scores Library
    Includes volumes I, II, III, and IV. An authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Contains full, study, piano, and vocal scores. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Music Online: Contemporary World Music
    Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent; contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    The full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) that allows for in-text searching. Contains 300+ associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings. encyclopedias reference
  • Music Online: Jazz Music Library
    The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
    A collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements. Coverage: 1838-1902. primary sources historical newspapers periodicals
  • Music Online: Opera in Video
    Streaming video of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Multiple performances and stagings of the major operas, from Baroque to the 20th century, allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Popular Music Library
    Contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more. video multimedia
  • Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound
    Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. video multimedia

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  • New Play Exchange
    The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. literary texts

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  • Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media Studies
    Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media Studies, offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
    Oxford Handbooks Online includes a collection of the best Handbooks in 14 subject areas. books e-books
  • Oxford Music Online
    Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions. Coverage: Details not available. encyclopedias reference

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  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present. Coverage: 1967-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • RIPM
    This database includes RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals, RIPM e-Library of Music Periodicals, and RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1760-1966). primary sources
  • RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
    Series A/II of the RISM project. Documents music manuscripts, printed music, works on music theory, and libretti, written after 1600, stored in libraries and archives in 31 countries. Includes bibliographic description, music incipit, provenance, and holding library. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Shakespeare in Performance
    This resource features the world-famous prompt book collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • ShakespearesWords.com
    Access is available on campus and through VPN only. A glossary and language companion to the works of Shakespeare focusing on words that have changed meaning over time or that are no longer used as they were in Shakespeare’s works. Also allows you to find every use of a word across Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Includes searchable full-texts of the First Folio and modern language versions of the plays. dictionaries

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  • Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
    A full text database containing the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain, published in full. literary texts
  • Theatre and Drama Premium
    Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama into the classroom, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.Includes the Drama Text collection, featuring Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and more; and the Theatre Performance and Design Collection, featuring the National Theatre Collection, Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection, and more.  literary texts video multimedia
  • Theatre in Video
    Streaming video of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. Coverage: Details not available. video multimedia

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