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Searches the following databases simultaneously:
Academic Search Complete , Art Abstracts,
Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984,
Communication & Mass Media Complete,
Essay & General Literature Index,
Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index. How to Search This Database |
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| International Index to Performing Arts Full Text | Indexes more than 200 performing arts journals and as well as biographical information, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Subjects include film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc. Some material is full-text. This is a good place to begin researching film and television studies. Abstracts span back to 1998, and indexing begins as far back as 1864. How to Search This Database |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index | Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author. How to Search This Database |
| Naxos Music Library Online | Naxos Music Library offers online access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks, making it one of the largest classical music databases in the world. In addition to classical music, Naxos offers thousands of tracks of jazz, film music, world music, and classic and contemporary rock. Search for recordings by genre, label, instrument, composer, or performer, then create and listen to your own playlists. How to Search This Database |
| Naxos Spoken Word Library Online | An online collection of audiobooks, Naxos Spoken Word Library consists of hundreds of books, with subjects ranging from literary classics, biographies, and histories to philosophy, religion, and children's stories. Many of these books can also be followed using the texts on screen. |
| Naxos Video Library | The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts library with hundreds of videos of operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, jazz performances, recitals, and musical tours of historic places. Users can search by composer, production, artist, venue, role or genre. Playlists with customized clips from any video are easily created for educational use or for hours of personal viewing. |
| Inter-Play | Inter-Play indexes individual plays published in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. Inter-Play is a more current index than the otherwise useful Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections (REF PN1655 .O8 1988) |
| Play Index | Indexes more than 30,000 plays written from antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present. The plays include mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, Broadway plays, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Users can search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate a particular play. How to Search This Database |
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Contains 823 scripts, together with detailed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes over 430 original images of previously unpublished screenplays. How to Search This Database |
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The North American Theatre Online database provides detailed information on thousands of theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies in Canada and the United States, including 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources. The database covers the time period from the Colonial era to the present. How to Search This Database |
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Full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. This database will provide information on related productions, theaters, productions companies, as well as selected playbills, productions photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. How to Search This Database |
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Produced by Alexander Street Press, Women's American Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Plays selected currently cover the 18th through the 21st centuries with future additions planned. Almost a third of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. The collection will be of particular interest to students of feminism and for women's studies. The indexing makes it possible to find and analyze particular dialog, characters and events. How to Search This Database |
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The Twentieth Century North American Drama database contains1,386 plays by 209 playwrights. Along with the plays, the database contains information on theaters and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs, and other materials related to the plays. Twentieth Century North American Drama also allows searching by character, author, theater, and production. How to Search This Database |
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Brings together more than 250 plays by 42 playwrights, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information for a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and will soon include contemporary playwrights such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. How to Search This Database |
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| A music reference source for all genres and styles includes facts, history, detailed description, and critique of albums and artists within the context of their own genres. | |
| CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) is a bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. CAIRSS contains citations to every article published in 16 primary journals, as well as citations of selected articles from 11 secondary journals. CAIRSS is updated regularly. | |
| Internet Broadway Database | IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. |
Related Book Titles in McDermott Library |
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| Play Index | Reference PN1625 .P53 |
| Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections | Reference PN1655 .O8 |
| New York Theatre Critics' Reviews | Reference PN2277 .N5 N4 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Opera | Reference ML102 .O6 N5 1992 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Reference ML100 .N48 2001 |
| International Encyclopedia of Dance | Reference GV1585 .I586 1998 |
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