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Dance
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Lisa Rae PhilpottMusic Library519-661-2111 x82755
Articles
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Indexes over a half-million articles, with citations and/or full-text from 1864 - present, covering theatre, dance and film.
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Companion database to IIPA, with 800,000 indexed articles with citations and/or full-text available from 1874 - present. Covers both scholarly and popular literature.
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Citation idex begun in 1949, now with link-outs to full-text. Easy to use.
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JSTOR offers access to back-runs of some three dozen music journals, and includes information on dance. The "moving wall" means that current issues are NOT available from JSTOR, with a 3-7 year delay, on average).
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A citations-ONLY index to scholarly music literature in 200+ languages. Includes information about dance.
Audio
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The MUSIC LIBRARY's guide for finding audio and video materials. Especially usefull for "known works / titles" - if you need a particular style or "mood" of music, please feel free to consult the Music Reference Librarian for help.
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The newest addition to our online subscriptions (i.e. use the Off-Campus Access link to input your WesterOne username and password), NAXOS Music Library offers streamed access to 55,000+ recordings and adds some 800 recordings each month. Genres include classical, blues, jazz, nostalgia, pop, rock and many more. You can search by composer, performer, label; create playlists for classes, find opera libretti and synopses, and analyses and details of works (available recordings, instrumentation, duration).
Bibliographies
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A listing of resources available at Western Libraries - since DANCE materials will be found at a variety of locations, depending-upon their main focus:
- items with a kinesiological- or medical-focus will be located in the Allyn & Betty Taylor Library;
- the Education Library will hold materials related to children and movement;
- the Music Library will hold dance materials associated with music (as well as CDs and printed music for ballets);
- general and historical studies will be found at the D.B. Weldon Library.
Classic Texts
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Music Library STACKS : GV1590.T3 1970
Reprint of the Paris edition of 1888. -
Music Library STACKS : GV1590.T32 1967
English translation of this classic work.
Encyclopedias
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The major encyclopedia for dance.
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Worth consulting for information on forms, genres, composers of ballet music, and major choreographers.
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Location: Music REFERENCE, NO LOAN: ML102.D3T44
Handy slender volume with the notated rhythms of dozens of popular dance forms.
Manuals
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A collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress, with manuals dating from a rare 15th-century source (ca 1490) to 1929.
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John Playford's three volumes eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. Many were copied from one edition to the next so that the entire contents, with duplicates, amounts to 6,217 dances, including 186 tunes without dances and 3 songs.
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Location: Music STACKS: GV1751.Z9 1970
