Archive for the 'performing arts' Category

Music and Performing Arts Online Portal

August 8, 2007

Now you can search the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) together on one site.
https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://mpaonline.chadwyck.com/
Of course you can continue to search them separately as well, if you wish.
https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://iipaft.chadwyck.com/
https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://iimpft.chadwyck.com/
Additional new features:
1. On the Search Articles page, you can now limit keyword searches to citations only or [...]

Music Online

April 30, 2007

NYU Libraries subscribes to the Music Online series, a collection of databases that includes thousands of audio clips that users can listen to online:
The Classical Music Library
“fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings.”
Smithsonian Global Sound
“virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions” [...]

Theatre in Video

February 8, 2007

Now you can go to the theatre without leaving your desktop!
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the
world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries,
online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Hamlet, Othello, Awake and Sing, [...]