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.
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.
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.
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.
Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include British and Irish authors, works, themes, genres, and history.
Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Hinduism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Hindu Studies.
Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Jewish Studies. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Jewish Studies.
Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include composers, performers, critics and scholars; genres and styles; music history and theory; instruments and instrument makers; ethnomusicology and world music studies.
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.
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.
Study aid for aria and art song texts. Provides a literal translation and a transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a diction guide. Includes texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish, English and Latin.
Comprehensive fashion database, includes the Berg Enyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, scholarly ebooks, and images from museums such as the Victoria & Albert, The Museum at FIT, and the Bata Shoe Museum.
Archive of almost every play submitted for licence in England between 1737 and 1824. Also includes The London Stage 1660-1800 which is a searchable database of every performance in London during those years and the Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800.