Online Resources for the Study of Music, Theatre, & Dance

People

Highlights from the Collection

New! Video databases

New! Audio Database

New! Online Music Scores

New! Reference Collections

Start your research here

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

• A Guide for Recitalists: Choosing Music and Writing Program Notes Using Library and Online Resources

• Music Education

    Guides to primary sources in music, scores, and sound recordings

• Identifying and Locating Musical Sources

• Finding Music Scores

• Finding Sound Recordings

Theatre

• Play Locator

• Play Reviews

• Theatre

• Theatre Fundamentals

Dance

• Dance

Research Collections at the UMD Libraries

• UMD Libraries Catalog (books, recordings, journals, scores…)

• UMD Digital Collections (films, recordings, images…)

• DRUM (Digital Repository at UM) (theses and dissertations written recently at UM, research conducted by UM faculty and researchers)

• Research Port (Databases and Electronic Journals on all subjects)

---

Important databases in Research Port

Note: the following databases represent the resources most likely to offer information on the performing arts. Many other databases in Research Port may contain valuable information pertaining to your research. Please contact librarians Steve Henry (music) or Leahkim Gannett (theatre and dance) for further guidance.

Audio databases (online listening)

• Classical Music Library

• DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music

• Naxos Music Library

• Smithsonian Global Sound

Dance

• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance

• New York Public Library Dance Catalog (OR go directly to NYPL Web site)

• Academic Search Premier

Theatre

• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance

• Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA)

• Academic Search Premier

Music

• Grove Music On-Line (Now available through Oxford Music Online)

• Music Index OnLine

• Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online)

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Index

• RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

General Databases that include information on Dance, Theatre, and Music

• America: History and Life

• Historical Abstracts

• JSTOR

• Project Muse

• WorldCat

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