J. Conrad Dunagan Library:
Performing Arts Resources
| Dance & Theater | Film | Music |

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Performing Arts: Dance and Theater

discAmerican Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 
discAmerican Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920  Choice Outstanding Web Site
disc Applied & Interactive Theatre Guide
discArtslynx International Dance Resources U. of Colorado
discA Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theater and Performance Studies
discThe Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982 
discThe Costume Page  Choice Outstanding Web Site
discCostumes, Textiles & Apparel: Highlights of the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection 
discThe Costumer's Manifesto in existence for more than 10 years; a premier site for costume and fashion information; has more than 800 pages on all aspects of costume
discThe Development of Scenic Spectacle   Mohler, emeritus Appalachian State created this "fascinating, informative, and useful Web site" to house computer-generated scale models of Renaissance and Baroque scenic effects and scene-changing machinery based on Italian manuscripts.
discDidaskalia: Ancient Theater Today 
discDramatists Play Service, Inc
discEnglish Server Drama Collection 
A collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre.
discFree to Dance
discInternet Broadway Database  for off-Broadway see Lortel  Choice Outstanding Web Site
discInter-play: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies & Periodicals  sparse interface, but effective search engine
discKabuki for Everyone 
 Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater
discLortel Archives: The Internet Off-Broadway Database CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
discThe New Deal Stage   Part of the American Memory Project; provides access to primary source documents of theatrical productions sponsored by the WPA and the FTP (Federal Theatre Project) from 1935-1939.
discO'Neill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive  more a guide to archives, than texts
discPlaybill Online
discThe Playwriting Seminars 
Created by Richard Toscan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), the "seminars" comprise a nested series of 230 pages offering practical guidance to the conventions of the well-made play typically sought by the regional theater companies that provide the majority of venues for contemporary nonexperimental drama. Everything is explained in terms of theatrical viability more than aesthetic principle per se.
discSapphire Swan Dance Directory
discSIBMAS: International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions 
discUnmasking the Maya: The Story of Sna Jtz'ibajom  
Sna Jtz'ibajom is a theater collective using Maya traditional tales to address contemporary political conditions of Maya people. The site has received excellent reviews from a number of sources, however as one reviewer points out--[users], accustomed to higher standards of Web design, may forgo this excellent resource in favor of better-designed Web sites with less reliable content.
discVoice of Dance  Choice Outstanding Web Site
discTelevision Production 
From an academic review: "A stellar example of an electronic text, this site is unique in that it is a comprehensive course offered at no cost to the user. Web master Ron Whittaker, author of several television production texts, offers the site with the plea that users make a "moral payment" to use the knowledge to benefit society. The site is well structured and offers many advantages over a print text, primary among them quick updating of material (the bane of print texts). The site presents 70 informative modules (complete with more than 500 graphics) covering scripting and proposals, technical processes and equipment, camera controls and lenses, lighting, audio, editing, and careers. "

Local Resources:
  • The Globe Theater
  • The Midland Community Theatre
  • Performing Arts: Film

    discAFI Online
    discAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    discAll Movie Guide   Choice Outstanding Web Site
    discBlack Film Center/Archive Indiana University
    discBlack Film Research Online University of Chicago
    discEarlycinema.com  UK-based; focuses on silent film before 1905. Includes an A to Z glossary.
    discFilm Literature Index  Through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Indiana University & SUNY-Albany have put Film Literature Index online, currently at no charge to the user. FLI indexes 150 international popular and scholarly film and television periodicals cover-to-cover, and selectively indexes another 200.
    discFilmsound.org   a Web site "that serves as an essential learning space dedicated to aspects of film sound"; included are links to articles (from practical to scholarly) on how sound is used in films; also links to articles on the history of film sound; a bibliography; lists and links of resources on related topics such as film music and sound in animated flms.
    discThe Internet Movie Database  
    disMasters of Cinema  Graphically attractive, informative, and user friendly this site focuses on but is not limited to the work of major world directors. There is a good balance of international films and US movies, with overall emphasis on the achievements of the filmmakers and the films themselves.
    discMovieflix.com Choice Outstanding Web Site
    discMovie Review Query Engine 
    discPublic Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
    discWho's Who of Victorian Cinema   Comprehensive, no other cite on early cinema approaches the precision and sheer volume of information contained on this site; navigation is easy and intuitive

    Performing Arts: Music

    discAfrican American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
    disc AMG All-Music Guide &bnsp;
    disc America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets  
    disc Andante: Everything Classical a comprehensive site, "elegantly combining music reference, news, and analysis".
    disc Blues Archive University of Mississippi
    disc Blues Gosple: Now What a Time, 1938-1943 
    disc Blues Music  BUBL LINK
    disc Center for Black Music Research
    disc Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature Indiana U.; provides links to several major musical databases, e.g. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology--Online, Music Theory Online Dissertation Index, Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, and Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum. All these databases can be browsed by author and are easily searcable.
    disc The Choral Public Library 3,500 choral scores, most in the public domain
    disc Classical Net
    disc Dave Brubeck
    disc DW3 Classical Music Resources  Duke U.; "well-organized and eclectic"; contains approximately 1,500 links to web sites in 12 languages; "the site offers accurate, scholarly biographical and historical data on all musicological periods." The site has an excellent search engine.
    disc Early American Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index  Indexes and expands on data in two microfiche sets: National Tune Index: 18th Century Secular Music and National Tune Index: Early American Wind and Ceremonial Music: 1636-1836
    disc Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music
    disc The Hector Berlioz Website CHOICE Outstanding Site  site loads quickly and is meticulously updated; keyword searchable through Google techonology; also includes pertinent information on the general culture of his time
    disc Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920   Choice Outstanding Web Site
    disc I Hear America Singing A site consisting of several databaes that enable users to access differentkinds of music, photographs, manuscripts, letters, and otehr documents.   Choice Outstanding Web Site
    discInternational Alliance for Women in Music
    disc The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection  Choice Outstanding Web Site an index to a very comprehensive sheet music collection at Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
    disc Ludwig van Beethoven's Website a wide range of information, images, and MIDI files
    disc MHN Instrument Encyclopedia&nbps;
    disc Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
    disc Musictheory.net intended for beginner's and the inexperienced; many aspects of basic music theory are covered, beginning with notational symbols and including meter, scales, keys, major and minor modes; and so on
    disc MusicalOnline
    disc Operabase 
    disc The Prokofiev Page  presents a selection of biographical, pictorial, bibliographical, and critical information; although updated infrequently, the researcher may also wish to view The Serge Prokofiev Foundation site.
    disc Public Domain Music 
    disc The Red Hot Jazz Archive 
    disc Southern Mosaic  American Memory Project; this site presents a multiformat ethnographic field collection from the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 southern states recording trip
    disc Worldwide Internet Music Resources Indiana U.; somewhat dated but still useful; see also
    discInternet Public Library: Music

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