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Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Coverage: 1985-present

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The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall makes available live video of concerts by this great orchestra. The site also offers on-demand streaming of both recent and archived concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as educational films about important musicians and musical works.

This database provides online access to three components of the Cambridge Companion series from Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics; Cambridge Companions to Religion, Philosophy, and Culture; and Cambridge Companions to Music. The collection is fully searchable by author, title, subject, or keyword.

The Cambridge Edition of Ben Jonson Online is a searchable online version of his print edition, providing a comprehensive collection of his writings for contemporary readers. It includes original introductions, collations, commentary, essays, archives, images, music scores, stage performances, and a cross-linked bibliography.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) provides on-demand streaming access to audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

Full-text archive of many important magazines documenting the early days of the film, television and popular music industries. Notably, includes Billboard (1894-2000), Variety (1905-2000), and The Stage (1880-2000).

A collection of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcriptions and literal translations of art songs and arias originally in a variety of languages. Contains texts, including aria texts and features audio recordings of standard pieces designed to provide diction help to singers. Links to other online resources such as opera plots and libretti, song texts and translations, and online scores.

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Collections of classical music, operas, and ballets from around the world. Contains live broadcasts and archived concerts, artist portraits, documentaries, and education programs. Has videos of classical music. Includes documentaries, masterclasses, educational films, and artist profiles. Some concerts are broadcast live each year.

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Full length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met’s Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, telecasts from the 1970s-1990s, and radio broadcasts back to 1935. All videos include English subtitles, and recent HD videos include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and/or Swedish. 

The ethnomusicology titles on this list find new links between music and culture, while the sound studies titles establish a new framework for theorizing the larger context of how we listen. Addressing musical cultures from around the world, these books consider music and sound broadly, taking into account social, cultural, physiological, and technological dimensions.

Provides citations to articles on topics such as history of music, forms and types of music (including popular music), history of musical instruments, including computer produced music. Also included are book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Classical Music Library not only includes recordings but also program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.

Contains scores spanning the Renaissance to the 21st century and including in-copyright works from major publishers. Also includes never-before-published scores and contemporary self-published scores by composers from around the world. Coordinates with recordings in the Classical Music Library.

Comprehensive streaming audio collection to support the teaching, research, and enjoyment of music. Provides streaming access to over 670,000 tracks, including classical, jazz, world, American, and popular music, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added.

Provides indexing and abstracts for international music periodicals from multiple countries, plus some full text. Most of the included records are from the most recent ten years of publication. Covers music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, composition, etc.

Musical America Worldwide includes blogs and databases with information covering performing artists, facilities, managers, presenters, schools, organizations and services.

Musical Theater Songs helps singers find the right song from 150 years of musical theater repertoire. NOTE: The database provides a link to Worldcat so users can have the information to obtain scores/recordings/sheet music when available directly through the University of Alabama Libraries.

NCCO is an ongoing digitization project focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Drawn from libraries worldwide and representing multiple languages, the collection includes books, newspapers, periodicals, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps, and more. 

Oxford Bibliographies Online is a scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules for the social sciences and humanities. This database combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, and guides researchers to scholarship produced across a wide variety of subjects.

“Online access to all titles published in 2018 and later in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions. “
RIPM contains annotated citations to music articles, book reviews, and biographical information published in 19th century periodicals from 15 countries.

Annotated index and guide to musical manuscripts by composers between 1600 and 1800. Each manuscript includes information about its location, as well as a musical incipit. Provides comprehensive documentation of extant musical sources worldwide. These primary sources are manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti.

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