Research Resources for Music, Dance, & Theatre

Class Guides and Research Guides

Library guides to help you with specific classes, subjects, and "How do I?" questions.

Ask Us!

Need help using the Library? Contact us with reference queries or to request an instruction  session for your course.

Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Music

• Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music)
• Harvard Dictionary of Music

Dance

• International Encyclopedia of Dance

Theatre

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Foreign Language Dictionaries
   
Online Reference Collection

Dissertations 

• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
• Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations (was Dissertation Abstracts Online)
• for more subject- and country-specific sources, see "Dissertations and Theses" tab of Music 511 library course guide

Listen and Watch Online 

• Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library
• Classical Music Library
• DRAM (American Music)
• Smithsonian Global Sound 
• Audio E-Reserves
• Theater in Video

Plays and Criticism Online

• Asian American Drama Online
• Black Drama Online
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
• Drama Criticism
• English Drama
• Play Index