Art and Music

DATABASES

Academic Search Elite

A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.

NEW!ArticleFirst

Click on the database tab to access ArticleFirst. OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Results will indicate if the journal title is held by UCA. Use the Library's catalog to locate the journal.

NEW! Books In Print   

Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.

Britannica Online

Includes the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus.

NEW! ECO

Click on the database tab to access ECO. An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. Results will indicate if the journal title is held by UCA. Use the Library's catalog to locate the journal.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

International Index to Music Periodicals

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 400 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. It includes a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Indexed articles cover the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

MLA International Bibliography

An index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

NetLibrary

Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks.

NEW! PapersFirst

Click on the database tab to access PapersFirst. OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

NEW! Proceedings

Click on the database tab to access Proceedings. An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

ProQuest Research Library

Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of Music Literature published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York, contains records in over 100 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently contains nearly 500,000 entries.  

NEW! WorldCat

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

NEW! WorldCat Dissertations

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.

Wilson Web

Provides a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Includes the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal, Readers’ Guide, and Social Science.

WEB RESOURCES

Art

All Movie Guide

Contains a variety of information on movies including cast, director, genre, etc, plot synopsis, reviews, actor biographies, and more.

Art Movements and Periods by Brain Bank

Provides definitions for various Art Movements and Periods.

Internet Movie Database

Contains a variety of information on movies including cast, director, genre, etc, plot synopsis, reviews, actor biographies, and more.

New York Public Library Digital Collections - Performing Arts

A searchable database presenting tens of thousands of digital images from The Library's collections including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more. Subject areas include the Performing Arts.

The Virtual Library - Theatre and Drama

Provides pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages, among which are organizations, schools, and online magazines/journals.

Music

The Aria Database

a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.

Beethoven Bibliiography Database

Provides information related to Beethoven and may be searched by Subject, Title, Score (Beethoven), or category.

Folk Music Index

An index to recorded resources. May be searched by browsing, keyword, or publisher.

Instrument Encyclopedia

Beginning with more than 140 artifacts from the Stearns Collection at the University of Michigan, this resource features musical instruments from around the world.

Music Research Databases

A listing of music databases found on the Internet by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library Indiana University School of Music.

New York Public Library Digital Collections - Performing Arts

A searchable database presenting tens of thousands of digital images from The Library's collections including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more. Subject areas include the Performing Arts.

Norton-Sony Classical Essentials of Music

A comprehensive Internet resource that provides access to nearly 200 musical excerpts.

Women Song Composers

This searchable database contains 5116 songs (and song sets and cycles) by women composers active in North America and England between 1890-1930, songs by fully 515 composers.