Performing Arts

Film

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Promotes and celebrates film-making excellence; includes database of Academy Award (Oscars) winners and nominees

AllMovie Guide Film guide offers reviews, synopses, ratings, trailers, release dates and more; also link to the AllMusic and AllGame guides from this site

Filmsound.org Provides a range of resources about film sound, including audio clips, articles, histories, glossaries, Q&A, sound effects libraries, beginners guides and more

Internet Movie Database Contains information about current movies: trailers, release dates, games, show times, ticket information and more

Movie Review Query Engine "Unique combination of reviews + news + user discussion... allows any MRQE user to read and add to the Internet’s most comprehensive collection of opinion about film" -- quote from website

Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers Created by the National Film Preservation Foundation, this site is dedicated to the preservation of films from around the world

Who's Who of Victorian Cinema A biographical guide to the earliest years of moving pictures, 1871-1901; a gateway to the world of Victorian film, behind and in front of the camera" quote from website

Interdisciplinary Sites

Performing Arts Encyclopedia "A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress. Each collection, exhibition or resource includes a descriptive summary and, if available, a link to the online resource." -- quote from website

Performing Arts in America (1875-1923) Searchable audio and visual files from The New York Public Library's extensive archival collection

Music

AllMusic Guide Music guide offers reviews, synopses, ratings, music videos and more; also link to the AllMovie and AllGame guides from this site

Andante "New type of classical music venture. Its aim is to document and preserve the world's recorded classical musical heritage and to become the definitive online resource for information about classical music and opera." -- quote from website

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature "Brings together various activities, publications (both electronic and conventional), and projects centered at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University" -- quote from website

Classical Net "Features more than 6000 files including more than 4000 CD/SACD/DVD/Book reviews and over 5300 links to other classical music web sites" -- quote from website

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Directory of related online resources organized by topic, such as archives, geographical divisions, recordings, dance and more

Hector Berlioz Website "One of the most original of great composers, but also an innovator as a practical musician, and a writer and critic whose literary achievement is hardly less significant than his musical output... site is devoted to the music, life and works of this great figure" -- quote from website

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 "Important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music" -- quote from website

I hear America Singing "Invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials" -- quote from website

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive "Committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial" -- quote from website

Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection "Contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960" -- quote from website

Operabase "Documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 175,000 performances on file... records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, and publishes season information" -- quote from website

Pandora (Radio from the Music Genome Project) "Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience" -- quote from website

Popular American Music "Research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present" -- quote from website

Public Domain Music "A reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . lists of public domain music, royalty free music recordings you can license, and public domain sheet music reprints" -- quote from website

Red Hot Jazz Archive "A place to study and enjoy the music of these early "Jazzmen"... broadcast[s] text, music and pictures" -- quote from website

Southern Mosaic " Multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as field notes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States" -- quote from website

SugarMegs Free, searchable streaming audio files covering over 22,000 concerts from over 4,400 bands.

Wolfgang's Vault "Thousands of carefully restored and archived concert recordings to stream for free, hundreds of which are available for download.... Whether you are interested in legendary performances of the past or the greatest emerging performers of today, Wolfgang’s Vault is where you’ll find them, and the stories behind the scenes." -- quote from website

Worldwide Internet Music Resources Organized directory of online music resources from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University

Theater & Dance

American Variety Stage "Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings... illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920" -- quote from website

Artslynx International Dance Resources "Attempt[s] to allow users to easily navigate to the many amazing dance link libraries available online, but where we find gaps, Artslynx aims to fill them with its own original set of dance and ballet resources" -- quote from website

Costumer's Manifesto Directory of online costume resources

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today "An electronic journal and resource dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance" -- quote from website

Elizabethan Costuming Page Includes overview, research, portraits, patterns, accessories, links and more.

Internet Broadway Database "Official database for Broadway theatre information... provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today" -- quote from website

Theatre Central "A central resource for contacting and communicating with theatre professionals throughout the world with specific interests or background information" -- quote from website

Voice of Dance "A vehicle for dance enthusiasts to voice their opinions and thoughts about dance... also offering calendar listings for major dance companies around the world, quick review excerpts of dance performances from all over, as well as the latest news from the arts world" -- quote from website

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