Online Resources for the Study of Music, Theatre, & Dance
New! Audio databases (online listening)
Start your research here
- • UMD Libraries Catalog (books, recordings, journals, scores…)
- • UMD Digital Collections (films, recordings, images…)
- • Research Port (Databases and Electronic Journals on all subjects)
Important databases in Research Port
- America: History and Life
- Grove Music On-Line
- Historical Abstracts
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
- Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA)
- Music Index OnLine
- New York Public Library Dance Catalog
- OR go directly to
NYPL Web site
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Index
- RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
- WorldCat
- America: History and Life
Guides by University of Maryland Librarians
Music
- • Basic Music Reference Tools **Use this guide with the others listed here.**
- • Early Music: Medieval & Renaissance Music History
- • Baroque Music History
- • Late 18th-Century Music History
- • 19th-Century Music History
- • 20th-Century Music History
- • Identifying and Locating Musical Sources
- • Finding Music Scores
- • Finding Sound Recordings
- • Play Locator
- • Play Reviews
- • Theatre
- • Dance
Guides to primary sources in music, scores, and sound recordings
Theatre
Dance
Other Online Resources
- • Citing music sources
Advice from a music librarian and music professor at Western Ontario University - • Music resources
Websites chosen by the Yale University Music Library - • Performing Arts resources
Websites collected by the Library of Congress - • Performing Arts databases and electronic resources at the Library of Congress
Some available onsite only. Visit the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
