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International bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines providing a broad, international coverage and concise abstracts, 1967- .
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Subject Areas: Music
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. RILM provides a broad, international coverage and concise abstracts. All scholarly works are indexed (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.). Concert reviews, recording notes, pedagogical manuals, etc. are indexed if they are of scholarly interest.
Areas of coverage encompass historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.
Format: Index to Journal Articles Dates of Coverage: 1967- Update Schedule: Monthly Database Producer: Repertoire International de Literature Musicale. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.
Access to the entire text of Grove Music Online with the ability to cross-search this resource with the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Subject Areas: Music, People
Oxford Music Online provides access to the entire text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a.k.a. Grove Music Online), the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Articles are frequently updated and include links to related sites, illustrations and musical examples.
Format: Full Text Books Database Producer: Oxford University Press
Database covering more than 800 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages.
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Subject Areas: Music
Music Index Online is a bibliographic database covering more than 800 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Topics include every aspect of the classical and popular world of music, and are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covers all styles and genres of music. Cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
Format: Index to Journal Articles Dates of Coverage: 1975-present (Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975) Database Producer: Harmonie Park Press. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.
Comprehensive collection of online classical music, offering over 85,000 tracks.
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Subject Areas: Music
Maximum user limit: 7 concurrent users at a time.
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of online classical music, offering over 85,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer on campus with internet access.
The Naxos Music Library offers the complete catalogue of Naxos recordings, including the Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues, plus Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. The equivalent to more than 4400 CDs of music is available in high quality streaming sound, on-demand, with accompanying background and composer notes written by experts in the field. Other content is available from third-party labels licensed by Naxos, including the recent addition of world music label Celestial Harmonies.
Format: Digital Media Database Producer: Naxos Digital Services, LTD.
Comprehensive collection of online jazz music, offering over 20,000 tracks.
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Subject Areas: Music
Maximum user limit: 7 concurrent users at a time.
Naxos Music Library Jazz is a comprehensive collection of online jazz music, offering over 20,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer on campus with internet access.
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 22,600* tracks of jazz from over 2,300* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library Jazz and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Services Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies. (*As of August 2007)
Format: Digital Media Database Producer: Naxos Digital Services, LTD.
Includes operas (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, and others) and musical performances (London Symphony Orchestra, others from HiBROW Production) as well as interviews with composers and musicians.
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Subjects: Theatre, Dance, Drama, Performing Arts.
Digital Theatre Plus is a streaming video platform of current British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes commentaries. This platform is one way to immerse researchers in performance while also helping to ready performing arts students for employment.
This database is comprised of three main parts:
(1) Plays & Productions: with over 340 classic and contemporary productions, these recordings include performances from Shakespeare's Globe theatre, the Broadway Digital Archive, the Royal Opera House, and the BBC.
(2) Practice & Practitioners: Over 200 interviews with cast members, directors, and backstage crews are found in Digital Theatre Plus.
(3) Theory & Criticism: Digital Theatre Plus includes over 80 essays, guides, and lectures written by both academics and practitioners. These materials explore theatre history, theory, and technique.
Format: Streaming Media, Full Text Dates of Coverage: Varies by production, from the 1960's through present Update Schedule: Quarterly Database Distributor: Digital Theatre Plus
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