Merner Pfeiffer Library: Research Guide - Performing Arts

Databases

Use these print and online resources for finding articles and essays on your topic.
ft = some or all citations include full text

• Expanded Academic ASAP (TEL)  – index and full text of journals in many subject areas including the arts-ft
• JSTOR - Full text of 32 music journals –ft
• Naxos Music Library
• Oxford Music Online – Includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
• ProjectMuse – Full text for five music journals-ft
• Wilson SelectPlus – Contains indexing and full text from selected journals from Wilson's "Humanities Index" and "Art Index," among others. – ft.

Web Sites

Music

• AMG All-Music Guide
• Andante
• Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
• Classical Net
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
• Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
• MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
• Now What aTime: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
• Operabase
• Public Domain Music
• Red Hot Jazz Archive
• Rock Wisdom.Com - Quotes and Lyrics
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Theater

• American Variety Stage
• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
• Theatre Central

Film

• All Movie Guide
• Earlycinema.com
• Internet Movie Database
• Movie Review Query Engine
• MovieFlix.com

Reference Sources

Use these sources for selecting and narrowing your topic.
 

Music

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians– RML105.S612
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa– RML100.G16
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean– R ML100.G16
• Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music– RML102.R6R64
• Humanities Index –  An index to journal articles. We have the print version in our Periodicals Room from 1907 to 2000.  AI 3.H85
• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians– RML100.N48, 20 vol.
• New Kobbe's Complete Opera Book– R MT95.K52
• New Oxford Companion to Music– R ML100.N5
• New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll– RML102.R6R64
• Oxford Dictionary of Music– R ML100.K35
• Oxford Reference Online– Contains full text of six Oxford Reference titles in the Performing Arts, including the Dictionary of Early Music, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera.

Theater

• Biographical Encyclopedia and Who's Who of the AmericanTheatre– R PN2285.R5
• Cambridge Guide to Theatre– R PN2035.C27
• McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama– R PN1625.M3, 4 vol.
• Oxford Companion to the American Theatre– RPN2220.B6
• Oxford Companion to the Theatre– R PN2035.O9
• Oxford Reference Online– Contains full text of six Oxford Reference titles in the Performing Arts, including Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre

Film

• Encylopedia of Novels into Film– R PN1997.85.T54
• Film Encyclopedia– R PN1993.45.K34
• Film Lover's Companion– R PN1998.2.Q56
• Film Quotations– R PN1994.9.N69
• Halliwell's Film Guide– R PN1993.45.H27