Humanities Digital Reference Toolbox: Performing Arts

General database - Index and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 titles. PDF backfiles and searchable cited references are provided for over 1,000 titles.

Electronic version of Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many reliable resources.

Basic Google search

Google search of scholarly articles

Online encyclopedia - background information, good source of related resources

The New Music USA Online Library is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 57,000 works by more than 6,000 composers, and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).

Database of opera arias

Chronicle of Higher Education covering the humanities

Video of Leonard Bernstein conducting the classics

Video of the Young People's Concerts hosted by Leonard Berstein

Music history performances on video

Video of Howard Goodall explaining How Music Works from the TV series

Database of Broadway theater

Comprehensive database for movies and TV with biographies

Leonard Bernstein Collection from the Library of Congress American Memory

Audio files and sheet music from the Library of Congress American Memory

National Public Radio website features news, music and the arts.

Public Domain Sheet Music at MusOpen

Web site for Humanities Research. This site serves as a meta guide to websites of use to the scholarly community in the arts, humanities and social sciences