Find Print Books and Scores in the Library

Use the Library Catalog to locate books in the library on your topic:

• Perform an All fields search using words such as "jazz history" or Broadway dance. These searches will search the entire record of all the items in the catalog, including author, title, and subject areas.
• Perform a Subject search using a word or words such as performance art or symphonies to search for items on a specific topic.

•  Musical genres used as subjects are singular for books about that genre

• Subject: symphony for Shostakovich symphonies and concertos: an owner's manual by Hurwitz, David

• Musical genres used as subjects are plural when referring to a score of the work itself 

• Subject: symphonies for London Symphonies: nos. 93-98 by Joseph Haydn

*** You can also check out CDs from the library!! ***

E-Books are available through the OCC Library Databases. To access them, log into Ocean Connect and click on the tab for Library Services. The link search for e-books (near the top) will open the EBSCOhost eBooks database. This collection has over 9,000 books on the Arts and Architecture, including more than 2,000 books on music and over 3,000 books on the Performing Arts (they can be browsed by selecting Arts & Architecture from the list of Categories).

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Naxos Music Library, NML Jazz, and NML World are now available through the list of library databases, either on the library page or Ocean Connect.  

Find Articles

The Library subscribes to several article databases, each suited to different fields and levels of study. If you are away from campus, you will need to access these databases through Ocean Connect. If you are unsure how to do this, please follow these instructions, or ask a member of the Library's staff for assistance.

Here are a few suggested databases that may prove useful to your research on the performing arts: 

• Oxford Music Online - This database offers users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Topics include jazz and opera, plus American and popular music.   
• Oxford Reference Collection - This trusted reference collection connects you to several relevant texts, including The International Encyclopedia of Dance, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, The Grove Book of Operas, A Dictionary of Film Studies, and more. Also included are reference books on visual arts and literature, plus many more cross-disciplinary texts.
• Fine Arts & Music Collection - This database offers access to a variety of resources covering the fine and performing arts, including newspaper and magazine articles, reference sources like dictionary and encyclopedia entries, and articles from academic journals.
  

• Art Full Text - While this database may seem to be for visual artists, it also includes articles on theatre, musicals, opera, choreography, film, and television. Of special interest are reviews, which provide a snapshot of the public’s reaction to a particular performance.

• ARTstor - A collection of over 300,000 images covering art, architecture, and archeology, this database has several Classification groups that may be relevant to your research, such as Fashion, Costume and Jewelry; Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art; or Performing Arts (including Performance Art).

• US Major Dailies - This database provides access to some of the country’s biggest newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Most newspapers are available up to the most recent edition, and some go as far back as 1980. This resource will provide you with reviews of performing arts productions by companies such as the Metropolitan Opera or the American Ballet Theatre.

• New York Times Newspaper (Current or Historical) - Between these two databases, you could find current and historical accounts of New York City performances.

• Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis) - Combining all of Gale's literature databases, this lets you search primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. Use it to look up information on a certain play or playwright.  

• Academic Search Premier - This widely used database provides full text access to a very broad range of topics, including arts & literature, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

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