Emerson College Library: Music and Musical Theatre: Best Bets

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Search music recordings

Musical Theater Songs This link opens in a new window
An index to musical theater, able to find songs for tryouts and auditions from a variety of Broadway and off-Broadway productions. Search by character, vocal qualities, song titles, show titles, and more. Audio of the songs is not available, but youtube links are sometimes provided.

Best Bets for Criticism, News, Interviews

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Key magazines from the history of the film and entertainment industries, covering the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. Core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, and include covers, ads and reviews
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance This link opens in a new window
Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance.
International Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
IIMP provides abstracts for more than 440 international music periodicals, plus full text for 130 journals covering music and musicians of all genres.
International Index to the Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
All aspects of the performing arts from over 200 international periodicals. Includes some full text.
Music and Performing Arts Studies This link opens in a new window
Providing access to both the International Index to Performing Arts & International Index to Music Periodicals, with select fulltext. International coverage of music, film studies, performing arts, and more.
North American Theatre Online This link opens in a new window
Collection covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre, including books, people, theatres, productions, and production companies. Some full text. Includes images of ephemera like stills, postcards, and posters. Also contains video clips of performances.
Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, and theater.
Rock's Backpages This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text music journalism articles, interviews, music criticism and reviews published in large and small music magazines from 1955 onward. Search by artist, band, publication, genre, etc.

Images & Video

Theatre in Video, Performance, and Design This link opens in a new window
Contains performances and related material of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Includes footage and interviews with playwrights and directors.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Online access to a collection of 3800 television documentaries and feature-length films from Films Media Group and films for the Humanities and Sciences. Often includes archival footage. Videos available in Flash format.
On the Boards TV This link opens in a new window
The mission of On the Boards is to introduce audiences to international innovators in contemporary dance, theater and music while developing and presenting new work by promising performing artists in the region. Streaming videos of performances are available in high def and standard video.
National Theatre This link opens in a new window
Featuring 30 high definition streaming videos of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies, as produced by the UK's National Theatre.

Petrucci Music Library

Petrucci Music Library
Public domain music scores.

FLO Library Catalog

Search the FLO Library Catalog to find books and media materials.

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Selected Call Numbers:

M 5-M 1490 Instrumental scores
M 1495-M 5000 Vocal scores

ML 48-54.8 Librettos (Texts for music)

ML 159-3799 History and criticism
ML 3800-3923 Philosophy and physics of music

MT 40-67 Composition
MT 170-810 Instrumental technique
MT 820-915 Singing and vocal technique
MT 955-956 Production of operas. Music in theaters

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Music and Musical Theatre