Performing Arts Research Guide
Library Databases for Performing Arts Research
- Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
- An excellent encyclopedic dictionary of music biography, history, and terms.
- Academic Search Premier
- A good general-interest database which includes both scholarly journals and newsmagazines with articles about a variety of topics.
- America: History and Life
- An academic source that indexes the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present and covers almost 2000 journals.
Performing Arts Web Links
Music Links
- Artslynx: Music
- General Classical Music Links
- from the Bach Cantatas Website
- Music Educators National Conference
- Sibelius Academy Music Resources Page
- Band Music of the American Civil War Era
- digital library collection from the Library of Congress
Classical Music
- Classical Music Dictionary
- Internet Resources for Music Scholars
- Musical Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
- Online Music Dictionary
- from the Austin Symphony
Popular Music
Dance Links
Company Directory Links
Links to Critical and/or Scholarly Sources in Dance
Theater Links
- Artslynx Theater Resources
- Drama Collection from e-server
- Costume ImageBase
- Infohub Theater Page
- Internet Broadway Database
- Internet Theater Database
- Milieux: The Costume Site
- Theater History on the Web
- Theater Resources from the Digital Librarian
- Theatremania.com
- up-to-date theatre news, reviews, and interviews.