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Electronic Resources

Single-Site Resources   Internet Resources   Electronic Journals   Library Reference Guides 


Single-Site Resources  (Available only at Gorton Music & Dance Library)

Dance/Performing Arts

Dance on Disc.  The Catalog of the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. CD-ROM.

The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783: Text Database and Index. CD-ROM.

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Music

CPM Plus: Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library (1997). CD-ROM.

From Don to Giovanni.  Comprehensive database of information about operas, operettas, singspiel, vaudeville, etc.  Searchable by composer, title, librettist, date, genre, geographic region, etc.  This is "... a cross-index of four hundred years of opera ... not a biographical dictionary"--User manual.  CD-ROM.

Index to Musical References in the Gazzetta di Napoli, 1681-1725.   Computer diskette.

International Index to Music Periodicals. Covers 516 periodical titles, mostly from 1990-1997.  Some citations date to 1874.   CD-ROM, updated quarterly.  See also Internet version of International Index to Music Periodicals.

MuSe (Music Search)  Includes RILM Abstracts, 1969-1994 (full) and 1995-99 (partial), and the catalog of the music collections at the Library of Congress, 1960-present.  CD-ROM, updated quarterly.   See also MusicLiterature (formerly RILM, on FirstSearch via the Internet)

Music Index on CD-ROM.  Covers 1979-1999.   Updated annually. See also Music Index Online

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed. Sachen Register. CD-ROM. 

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), Series A/II.  Music Manuscripts after 1600: Thematic Catalog.  5th cumulative ed. (3d CD-ROM ed.)     Internet version available through RISM Online.

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Internet Resources

Internet Databases available only to KU faculty, students, staff

Dance  

new bullet International Index to the Performing Arts--Full Text. Includes dance, opera, musical theater, film, television, circus, storytelling, etc. 

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Music

new bullet  International Index to Music Periodicals--Full Text. Covers 1874-2000, but best coverage is from the last few years. 

Music Index Online . Covers 1979-1999.

MusicLiterature (formerly RILM) via FirstSearch.  Online version of RILM Abstracts includes citations for dissertations, articles in periodicals and monographs, book reviews, etc., with summaries. Covers 1969 to 2000.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed.   

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Internet Directories

Dance

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory 

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Dance 

Yahoo! Dance Directory 

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Music

All-Music Guide 

Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University) 

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Selected Resources on the Internet

Performing Arts

Arts Wire. National online communications project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Arts Wire's ArtQuarry. "A self-service database of cultural resources in the Web." 

Performing Arts Online 

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Dance

Ballet Alert! Online. "A place for people who love ballet."

Dance Links, by James White, Jon Wright and Amy Reusch.

Dance Pages, by Estelle Souche. Include links to ballets, choreographers, dancers, famous ballets, etc.

Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing 

Institute of Historical Dance (Ghent) Dance Page 

Preserve, Inc. Archival documentation and preservation.

Renaissance Dance/Rendance 

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Music

American Music Therapy Association.

American Musicological Society

ASCAP.  American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
BMI.  Broadcast Music Inc.
    These two major music licensing groups offer databases of music titles, publishers, composers, and lyricists.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online.  

Golden Pages: Music Departments Worldwide.

Latin American Music Center (Indiana University)

MENC.  Music Educators National Conference.

MPA.  Music Publishers Association.  Includes lists of names of music publishers, distributors, and agents, with addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and links to their web sites.

Music Library Association 

Mountain-Plains Chapter, Music Library Association

Necrology (Gaylord Music Library, Washington University in St. Louis)  Listing of recent deaths in the music world.  The staff of the Gaylord Music Library attempt to update the database daily.

Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts.

RISM Online.  Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, U.S. Office.

Society for American Music [American Music Network] 

Society for Music Theory.

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Electronic journals, newsletters, magazines, samplers 

Please note that electronic periodicals may contain completely different content than their print counterparts. Some include complete or partial contents of current or past print issues. 

Lists

General/Performing Arts 

Backstage: The Complete Online Perfoming Arts Resource.  

NewJour [archive] "archive for NewJour, the Internet list of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet" 

Sruti: Internet Edition. "India's premier music and dance magazine" 

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Dance

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Music

Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals (Indiana University Music Library)

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Individual titles

Performing Arts

new bullet Leonardo  Full-text  International journal for readers interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only)

PAJ Full-text A Journal of Performance and Art (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only)

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Dance

ballettanz "Europe's Leading Dance Magazine"   

Ballet 2000/Balletto Oggi [under construction]

Dance Expression (UK) 

Dance Magazine 

Dance Online: New Dance from Around the World. 

Dancing Times 

Danz "Tasters from the official magazine of Dance Aotearoa New Zealand" 

PAJ  Full-text  A Journal of Performance and Art (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only) 

TANZOriental 

TanzNETZ 

Village Voice (New York City)--Dance  

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Music

Alternate Music Press: An Online Music Magazine 

Amazing Sounds

new bullet Andante

Billboard Online

Delta Snake Blues News: The Online Blues 'Zine

De Musica

Didaskalia

Echo: A Music-Centered Journal (UCLA) 

Electronic Musicological Review 

EOL: Ethnomusicology Online: Peer-Reviewed Multimedia Ejournal

European Music Journal: EMJ  

Film Music magazine

Film Score Monthly: The Online Magazine of Motion Picture and Television Music Appreciation

Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft

Goldmine Online

Guitar and Lute Issues: The On-Line Magazine of Editions Orphée 

The Hollywood Reporter

Iberian Discoveries

InfoRISM  

International Journal of Research in Choral Singing  (Music Education & Music Therapy Division, Department of Music & Dance, KU) 

Jelly Online: The Real Music Newsletter

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music: Journal of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

new bullet Leonardo Music Journal  Full-text (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only)

MikroPolyphonie: The Online Contemporary Music Journal 

MTO: Music Theory Online: The Online Journal of the Society for Music Theory

Muse: The Journal of Women in Music

Music & Anthropology : Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean and Beyond 

Musicae scientiae: Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music - ESCOM

Northern Journey Online Journal: E-journal of Canadian Folk Music and Folklore 

new bullet Notes Full-text: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only)

Notitiae Cantus: An International Newsletter for Gregorian Chant and Other Repertoires of Western Chant

Online Musik Magazin

new bullet Open Space Web Magazine 

Operanet: Culturekiosque's Opera Magazine 

Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture

PAJ Full-text A Journal of Performance and Art (Project Muse: KU faculty, students, staff only)

Polish Music Journal: Online musicology journal dedicated to the study of Polish music

Research Perspectives in Music Education

ReSoundings: A World Wide Web Periodical 

RootsWorld

RPM Online: The Review of Popular Music (International Association for the Study of Popular Music)

SCI Newsletter (Society of Composers, Inc.)

Soundout: The Web Magazine of Contemporary Music

Soundsite: The Online Journal of Sound Theory, Philosophy of Sound and Sound Art

TRANS: Transcultural Music Review 

Village Voice (New York City)--Music  

Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory

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Library Reference Guides

Dance

Electronic Resources in Dance (workshop outline)

Music

Brass Chamber Music 

Electronic Resources for Music Research (workshop outline)

Electronic Resources in Music (workshop outline)

Electronic Resources in Duckles 5

Music Books, Scores and Manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections, Spencer Research Library, compiled by J. Bunker Clark, Professor Emeritus.  

Music in the United States before the Civil War, compiled by J. Bunker Clark, Professor Emeritus.

Pulitzer Prize Winners in Music, 1943-2000

Theory 

Trumpet Music

Voice 

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